Show HN: I made an HN for mobile health (opens in new tab)

There is a significant portion of the healthcare conversation (federal policy wonks, CMIO, etc) that will not use reddit for whatever reasons (confusion, overwhelming, not 'serious' etc).

In the interest of developing real conversation, and not just an echo chamber, I think this is the right direction. Also, /r/healthIT and /r/healthcareIT haven't been a great success.

Subreddits are awesome, but one advantage of using an open-source app like Telescope is that you can customize everything, from the color scheme to the site structure to the ranking algorithm.

(disclaimer: I'm the creator of Telescope :)

My friend texted me as soon as I did this. Maybe it's just me but Reddit always feels so distracting.

Mostly I'm just stubborn and wanted to have control over look/layout.

In all reality nowadays it takes about as long to make a subreddit as it does to make one of these haha.

I'll have to disagree haha. What's the point in putting in more effort?

Telescope took me a solid 15 mins at most to get running and I can test this "MVP"

Thanks I was looking for something like this. Dont be hard, he is trying to see what happens!

Pretty sure it's the definition of making something.

Same here. I kept wanting to make it and finally got a flight delayed by a couple of hours so I finally made it :)

The goal is generally to cover healthcare tech. Probably a bad title for HN but if you look at the articles on it thus far, it covers a wide spectrum.

I think the tricky thing is that many Health IT people aren't really interested in what's going on on the other side of the fence except sales people scoping out competition. I only know alot about other Health IT software vendors that I've replaced their software with the company that I worked for. Someone that knows a lot about one vendor might not know anything about any of the others. It makes it easy to make sweeping generalizations sometimes; some of which aren't always warranted.

You could also say the same thing about HN, but it always has this feeling of articles that are either "Academic or things the Valley would care about". Most Health IT topics are neither.

But, I do love the idea.

Personally, I think so. The mhealth/healthIT twitter communities are pretty strong, but spread out over multiple blogs/domains.