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by nicksergeant • 14 years ago

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krmmalik• 14 years ago

Cant read the titles properly which is off putting since i cant determine fully what the video is about without clicking on it.

reiserifick• 14 years ago

Hover your mouse over the titles...

koglerjs3• 14 years ago

Successful sharing sites are highly democratized, which means in some sense catering to the lowest common denominator.

Put another way, you need volume to gain any traction.

Reddit has a lot of crap because it has a lot of volume: but as a sharing site it has mechanisms to let people en masse filter the crap for the gems. Such as they are, in a place like /r/adviceanimals.

HN has a fair amount of quality because it caters to a very specific crowd and it self-moderates much more mercilessly than reddit; but it still has to deal with the problem of crap.

Upvotes are highly visible. Stories fail. Anyone can say anything. The crap and the site's system for reacting to it makes the process of content gaining traction _demonstrably valid_ to a visitor to the site.

If none of this is immediately obvious in your sharing site, I don't expect it to gain the critical mass it needs for success.

(You might think TED is a counter-example in the Wonderful Videos domain, but the obvious difference is that TED is a content provider, not a sharing site.)

Edit: And you've got the social bubble virus, in that your 'social network' requires people to once again set a glorified address book in order to really leverage your resources. You're too specific for people to want to spend a lot of time cultivating!

Was it really that long ago that "Build a social network for {{x}}" was regarded as a bad idea?

kvnn• 14 years ago

> Was it really that long ago that "Build a social network for {{x}}" was regarded as a bad idea?

I understood everything else you said, but I'm unsure what you mean by this. Could you explain?

koglerjs3• 14 years ago

I have this vague memory that investors or startup advisors used to laugh at any startup idea along the lines of "We want to build a social network, but for florists!"--and that seems to have receded in the last year.

dorian-graph• 14 years ago

Successful perhaps in large numbers but success isn't always about mass. Reddit, Pinterest and others are about mass.

There's another way to measure success—quality and the effect it has and what it causes people to do.

People are afraid of being left out, though, like the whole Svbtle debacle amongst other examples.

GoofyGewber• 14 years ago

Love the design!

wcarss• 14 years ago

This is great. One request: make video times visible from the listing page.

Rickasaurus• 14 years ago

Very cool. I'm a huge fan of this kind of content and the design is just beautiful.

mischov• 14 years ago

"Follow people you admire and share your wonders with others." (from http://www.organizedwonder.com/)

You keep using that word. I wonder if it means what you think it means.

zalew• 14 years ago

loving it. signing up and hoping it grows with great content. rss/json feed for saves please (so we can grab it and embed in blogs and stuff)

shollenshead• 14 years ago

Some great feedback, thanks everyone.

@koglerjs — I understand where you're coming from. The goal of Organized Wonder is to 1) share the videos that you find interesting and 2) Follow people who share similar interests as you so you can watch what they're watching. #2 is where some of the quality control is going to come in, although I realize this isn't as obvious yet since we just launched the beta 3 days ago, and so a lot of the functionality is still waiting to be implemented.

@wcarss — This definitely something we're working on adding.

- Sawyer, Founder of Organized wonder

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