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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!

Well, at least they don't have to worry about viruses.

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.

You don't need anything else than these two:

For design and logos: http://thenounproject.com/

For markup/html: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

Thank you for your input :) We'll look into all of these things, including making the video more prominent!

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.)

Thank you for all of this, we'll look into all of it :)

Thank you very much for your input :)

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?

You should never go to Dubai.

Yep. I really do:

http://www.listnerd.com/erling.loken.andersen

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 :)

Thank you for all of this! Duely noted on our todo list.

Thank you.

I agree. We'll do it.

Thank you! :)

Hey Partyfists,

thank you very much for your answer. You put a lot of effort into it, so I wanted to reply in the same manner :)

The CSS stuff was done by Jesper, one of the founders, that unfortunately left the company. I'll tell him about the CSS issues you address.

As for issues 3-10, I'm noting down all of them in our todo list and I'll address them individually. Thank you for great input! :)

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 for your input!

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.

Hmm... Because if it's "good", it's of some use to people - and you would think they would start spreading word about the site and its benefits?

Thank you! We added 10 stars for granularity, but we'll rethink it.

Exactly.

Thank you for your input :) We'll look into that footer issue.

There is a lot more work to a startup than just design. We have 4 content creators, we do SEO, marketing, customer support, product development, legal and economic issues, bug fixes, etc. If you think Listnerd is a "weekend project", then you're either inexperienced or simply don't see the full picture. Building something like good admin backend can take 1-3 months for a project alone.

To some extent, I agree with you. At the same time, there are a lot of smart people on here, who might be able to give solid advice anyway. And I've gotten lots of really good stuff already, we really have our work cut out for us now.

Thank you very much for your comments :) A lot of people mention Buzzfeed like it's a bad thing, but I think it should be remembered that we're talking about one of the biggest sites in the world. But, as you say, there are plenty of sites where you can find that kind of content. We might target a niché more specifically from this point on, perhaps doing more gaming-related lists and focusing on that target audience.

Hey, what page is this? I'm trying to reproduce the issue, but I can't? (I even installed a slow-loading plugin for Chrome, to mimic a slow browser to see if it was a CSS issue) :)

Also, what is a "SOE list"?

We weren't trying to get marketing, I promise. But we were trying to agitate some of the brightest brains in tech into giving us extremely valid and honest feedback, and we succeeded at that.

Already answered this, just see my previous answers!

Thank you!