Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies

http://coinspotting.com

by coinspotting • 13 years ago

117 52 13 years ago

coinspotting.com

VMG• 13 years ago

Great idea! Some request

* add an API (apps, mobile browsing)

* integrate tipping (upvote = tip)

* add signup fee to limit spam

loceng• 13 years ago

Not sure if upvote = tips is a fantastic idea or a way for trolls and dramatic people to make a living.

SectioAurea3• 13 years ago

Talk about a "knowledge economy"!

krapp7• 13 years ago

Instead of paying trolls, monetizing trolls might be a good idea. You could have people buy karma, buy mod rights, buy out other people's mod rights, etc.

Of course posting and downvoting would have a karma cost.

datacog• 13 years ago

add signup fee to limit spam

- this assumes that there would flood of users on this site and a chunk of them will actually pay for it. Will you use HN if there is a fee? Instead, why not just write an algorithm to limit spam Or a 'report spam' button?

sciguy77• 13 years ago

Why is this better than the Bitcoin Reddit Page?

TylerE2• 13 years ago

You serious? Getting stabbed IRL is less bad than /r/bitcoin. I'm not sure if the memes or continual circlejerking are worse.

jaredsohn• 13 years ago

Why is this better than /r/bitcoinserious, /r/bitcoinmarkets, or creating a new subreddit for bitcoin?

vyrotek• 13 years ago

Except creating something that looks like HN does not automatically attract the same crowd as HN. There are plenty of clean, meme-free, well managed Reddits. This new site could just as well turn into /r/bitcoin.

Also, anything bitcoin related is going to turn into a "circle-jerk". That's the point isn't it? They exist to educate, market, hype-up, and encourage everyone to use BitCoin. No thanks.

crassus• 13 years ago

Communities are made of people. Software alone is only half the story. The problem with reddit is redditors.

jere• 13 years ago

On the same day, we get a filter that is by default HN without Bitcoin and another site that is HN only about Bitcoin.

It's like we're approaching some sort of binary tree data structure where the leaves are HN clones with their own indiosyncratic topic configurations.

derefr• 13 years ago

The two are, of course, motivated by the same plea: for HN to be only for discourse about technology/hacking/building/entrepreneur-ing itself, and to leave the discussion of the politics surrounding it to somewhere else.

I mean, we all want to discuss techpolitik sometimes... but generally not at the same time we're reading about new tech.

HN might be well-served doing something like MetaFilter's "blue/grey" split, but instead of just a content/meta division, a "hacks/sociopolitical-implications-of-hacks" division. HN is already a community, and it'd be nice if the account names and karma stayed synchronized.

krapp7• 13 years ago

The community has become more complex than the structure of Hacker News allows for.

andrewljohnson• 13 years ago

I shall call it a subreddit.

infruset2• 13 years ago

Quick, someone write MetaNews: A hacker news for "A hacker news for X" websites!

lowglow• 13 years ago

That's reddit, really.

krapp7• 13 years ago

Ironically, there is already a HN subreddit.

But it's join-by-approval only and there's nothing there.

Semaphor• 13 years ago

I don't think so. From my understanding he is talking about a HN clone that only allows posts about new HN clones.

networked• 13 years ago

Until someone does you can use the following HNSearch queries: [1], [2] and [3] (roughly best to wrost). Note that you'll get HN apps along with HN clones.

[1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22hac...

[2] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=show+%...

[3] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%22sho...

Edit: [2] finds this 'Show HN: Hacker News for "Hacker News for 'X'"': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5436841.

Edit 2: Improved the search queries.

unclebucknasty3• 13 years ago

No kidding. And, be sure to rip off the entire look and feel with only a color change.

Seems like there should be at least a little shame with these Hacker News for X sites.

krapp7• 13 years ago

It's not really "ripping off" anything given that the structure and css are included with the Arc distro which a lot of these sites appear to be using.

al2o3cr• 13 years ago

Wait, I thought this was called "the HN front page". /snark

olalonde• 13 years ago

I guess the name is a reference to Trainsportting? Great domain name in any case.

javert• 13 years ago

To be honest, there is a need for something much more filtered than bitcointalk.org. That used to be /r/bitcoin, but it really sucks now.

My question for the coinspotting people: How are you going to maintain high quality? If you don't have any plan, it will probably be filled with crap and eventually die.

TrainedMonkey• 13 years ago

Ok, can we stop now? They reason I prefer HN instead of say Reddit is precisely because all the news are in one place. The new trend "Hacker News for X" basically means hey guys let's make Reddit, without all the good stuff.

dmix• 13 years ago

The new trend "Hacker News for X"

New trend? This has been happening continuously for about 5 years now.

I'm just amazed people keep upvoting it, despite the fact these sites always die.

Killah911• 13 years ago

Why isn't there a Hacker News for Hacker News for X?

TazeTSchnitzel• 13 years ago

But at least with Reddit you can subscribe to the subreddits you like. With extra "HNs", you have to visit each individually.

tuananh• 13 years ago

exactly!!!

making sites like this is kind of equivalent to news.ycombinator.com/r/bitcoin

pacohn• 13 years ago

Hacker News + tags: http://hubski.com/tag?id=bitcoin

_nato_• 13 years ago

_love_ the domain name!

applecore• 13 years ago

Change the header color to a nice yellow "coin" color, like #F9BA00, or the official Bitcoin color, #FF9933.

Casseres• 13 years ago

Agreed. Also, the favicon is pretty disappointing.

I do look forward to keeping an eye on it though. I hope it takes off. Thanks for sharing.

unreal37• 13 years ago

Love it.

pearjuice• 13 years ago

Do these hacker news clones truly run on top of that LISP legacy stuff? Or are they rewritten?

ShaneCurran• 13 years ago

I made something similar a couple of weeks ago: http://www.bitcoinfyi.com

Although it doesn't have quite as much traction as yours :P

pmcpinto• 13 years ago

This is an interesting debate. During the last weeks I've been working in a concept like this, but is not ready yet.

I'm a big fan of Hacker News, and I'm trying to create something that isn't an exact copy of HN, so if someone is interested feel free to sign up to the "The Currency" mailing list in http://thecurrency.io/ or send me an e-mail to hi@thecurrency.io. I count to have some news in the next weeks.

PS: and I also appreciate to have some feedback about the landing page: brand, value proposition, etc.

Thanks.

bitmania• 13 years ago

Awsome work, Recently I heard about Cryptocurrencylive (www.cryptocurrencylive.com) too. We'll have to wait and see who makes the best news.

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