When does family/friends announcements turn to spam? I know many marketing email providers are weary of writing to your entire address book of people who did not opt in.
This sounds like a niche that is waiting to be filled, and it is kind of exciting. But you should take this with a grain of salt. The audience on HN is probably quite skewed in your favor, geeks and hustlers who are predisposed to using something like this. I remember LinkedIn for a long time was primarily used in the tech industry.
That said, I like the simple design of the page, and I think it has a fine balance of seriousness and youth. I am going to look at your internal pages, and will give you some more feedback.
Meta: I bet a decision like that took a lot of guts. Congrats, you are no longer at step 0.
It would be interesting to have a controlled study of how much where great entrepreneurs go matters. Perhaps it is a similar argument to the one that says a place like Stanford or Berkley are not great because of the actual schooling that goes on, but because of the kind of people it attracts. But I am not sure how you would design such a study.
Likely in this case. I just wonder what position they started from...looking for evidence to support the particular hypotheses, or were they open minded about it...
"Just the first pictures were enough for her to conclude that the two paintings had been produced in tandem. After that, it was just a question of watching the evidence pile up."