All my respect to David Irvine and his team, who have been working hard for 10y on this, busy coding instead of pumping.
Despite all the skeptics and critics, he comes out with a groundbreaking solution, makes it open source, and even goes so far as to reaching out the competition to give them a heads-up.
"[...] On the other hand, the reason they have these qualities is because they were born with privilege."
How can you say such a thing ?
For centuries Jews were born in misery, living in ghettos and essentially considered as non-citizens and they still managed to make it. If Jews have such an exceptional fate and set of skills, it certainly can't be explained by the fact that they were born with privilege, simply because they were not.
The design was done by Julien Morel,(joolz.fr), the same guy who did the previous design of Matt Mullenweg(http://ma.tt/). he has done a lot of great design for a few french sites as well. You should check his portfolio. He is a nice guy. He is now working on a costumed page for my twitter account (@exaggerated_com).
Content creation has been a nightmare to produce this far. Spotlights are easy to generate, cause they are aggregated live in our admin database and are all pre-populated.
Original content however is something really difficult to produce on a daily basis.
I had a redditor to produce the articles, I used to pay him like 800$per month. but he cashed in the money before xmas and never re-appeared... I have just found a great content provider now who is charging me 5$/article.
Definitely creating a startup has been hard as hell!
I am a private banker/ portfolio manager in Geneva Switzerland. I founded the site just for fun during my spare time.
I have fully funded the development of the site so far.
It was launched a few weeks ago and has not been promoted yet, so it is still fairly confidential.
I am now working on optimizing the site to fasten the loading of pages.
It's a lot of work by the way (over a year and a half of development.)
I would like to draw more traffic. What should I do from now onwards ? buy ads ? launch a thread on reddit ? ask each and every design blog I know to kindly talk about the site ?
I'd love to have some piece of advice from your community
Despite all the skeptics and critics, he comes out with a groundbreaking solution, makes it open source, and even goes so far as to reaching out the competition to give them a heads-up.
just wow.