You should make yourself a few "fake" accounts on your own website and then get to posting. Everything now is from AdamCanady which gives the impression that it's just you (which it is ). If It was coming from a randomized set of usernames, it would give the impression of a lively community.
Reddit did it, and ever since then I'm pretty sure it's considered acceptable by the HN community and others.
(though the storytelling/editing tools are better now, so maybe worth taking another crack at?)
PS - Go Hawks
What did you work on before to discuss things like this?
If you could somehow mitigate the sad feeling from sad news thing, it may catch on and gain a decent bit of traction. Lord knows we need to be more open to discussing failure and learning from it. However, I personally do not like discussing failed startups from my past, and I wonder if I'm not part of the majority.
Cool idea though. Wish you luck.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806428
I actually started working on something similar - but quite honestly I don't have the skills to do it in any reasonable time frame. I am glad I stopped when I did because yours would have crushed mine.
I hope it works out.
FYI one of the reasons I stopped is because I knew it would be really hard to get solid content because it was based on things that most people want to never talk about again. If this platform can get them talking it would be massively helpful to the community. On the order of Quora.
As it is though, I feel like there is too much black on the page -- and it's really black. All that black also makes it hard to read the gray content, which is stuff that I really do want to read. It also makes it harder for me to see the icons.
Sorry for the feedback on the aesthetics, just that the site is really hard on my eyes.
