I love it. Quite often logo redesign processes gets completely out of hand, but this was a significant improvement over the older version: Cleaner, more modern and beautiful in all its simplicity. Bravo!
Backend in node.js. We leverage the fact that we get huge amounts of bot traffic, by saving all entries they fetch from Instagram to build our database of popular tags and users.
Thank you. After reading your comment - and many others - we'll look into narrowing down our niché. We're thinking about video games, movies and TV. That's a pretty defined target audience with a clear need for lists (separating good games from bad, movies, shows, etc.)
That's exactly what we're trying to make; a kind of Buzzfeed 2.0, where the "2.0" stands for improved functionality and quality of lists. That's our vision anyway.
I saw your site, looks very cool. Perhaps I could mail you our story?
Thank you. We're cleaning up the frontpage now. The lists you talk about are actually the most popular lists in regards to traffic, but yes, I agree - we should move them to a NSFW category :)
Well, ideally we don't want to create those kinds of lists. Remember that our lists are interactive, meaning that anybody can interact with them, changing their ranking. Ideally we want to "empower interest-based communities to rank the best stuff out there". That sounds gay, and it is - but at the same time, it's true. I love red wine for example; and it can be really hard finding comparative lists between different kinds of red wine. Sure, you have Vivino (the app), but that is all kinds of fucked up. So I might want to create a list called "Best wines from Tucany", which directly compares the wine. Then, if I get my some friends that I trust to vote on the list, BAM!, it's a list of superior quality for both myself, my friends and visitors to Listnerd. That's our vision. We're not there yet, but we're working on it - hence this Hacker News post.
Thank you very much for this input. Your comment - and others - made us rethink our positioning. I think we're going to steer more towards gaming-, movies- and TV-oriented lists from now on; because that is really where the traction is coming from.