So I have been looking into a few social networks for entrepreneurs, and they all kinda suck. I think the key is to make it super niched, i.e. hackers / internet entrepreneurs.
What I really want is a place for internet entrepreneurs to brainstorm, get feedback from each other, survey, basically things that is already happening on HN that is not "news"
Yet, hacker news is build more as a news site so some of the other usage cases cannot be fully exploited. Non-news discussions tend to get drown out in the sea of regular news (though the addition of Ask HN section has made things better).
I want to do a survey to see what features will be good. - Video chat brainstorming - Site / App feedbacks - Organizing local meetup - Ardvark-like context matching of profiles to recommend relevant discussions - Weekly group Q&A, Contest - Plain old forum
And of course the site will following a set of rules of conduct such as constructive feedback, limited self-promotion, etc. It will probably have some sort of rating / karma system.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
