On Deck Daily

Hey Everyone! Nick Frost, Alex Shye, Ben Tossel, and myself are excited to introduce a side project: On Deck Daily. On Deck Daily (V.01) is a community of engineers, founders, investors, and startup folks of all stripes discussing and debating the latest in technology. On Deck Daily grew out of the On Deck community — a digital and in-person community of world-class engineers and entrepreneurs looking to start or join their next thing. We were having great conversations in Slack, Facebook, and in person, and we wanted to give them their own home. Also: Nick Frost is really good at curating insightful content, and our goal is to build a great community around knowledge sharing the way Product Hunt built a great community around product launches. Of course, we’re inspired by Reddit, HN, and Product Hunt. (UI is very similar to PH early days-- Ryan's work with PH has been seminal.) To answer the obvious question: Does the world *need* another Hacker News, Reddit, or news-like site? Probably not. But we enjoy building communities, curating good content, and facilitating conversations between smart people — so join us if that speaks to you too. :-) We’re doing things slightly differently: to keep quality high, we’ve seeded the community with 1,000 posters a.k.a curators (thanks Allison Esposito and Ruben Harris for the help!), but we’re giving anyone who signs up the ability to comment, day one, barring they follow the community code of conduct. We’re also aiming to get the writers (“creators”) of these posts and articles in the conversations. Often these conversations get lost in the Twittersphere (or never happen due to character limits), so we hope On Deck Daily becomes a place where you go to find substantive conversations in one place. Some of the ways we're measuring success of this experiment: 1) Can we bring authors and relevant experts into the conversations? 2) Can we have substantive conversations that you wouldn't find in, say, Twitter or Medium? 3) Will we have substantive conversations about breaking topics, and what kind of topics (blog post vs news, etc) Please let us know what you think!

Hey everyone! As a curator of content for the past 6 years, most recently as the Mattermark Daily Newsletter Editor, I believe that this is the next level of how we can collectively contribute to a high-quality feed of content and individually engage in a community around the latest in technology topics. We hope you enjoy what we’ve put together and look forward to your posts and comments!

A little backstory: @thinker, @bentossell, and @eriktorenberg all passionate about news, curation, community, startups, etc. After a couple jamming sessions, it just became obvious that we had to build something. As Erik mentioned, this doesn't necessarily _have_ to exist, but why not? After a few days of hacking away at this, On Deck News was born. We think it can be yet another one of those great places where awesome people congregate to discuss interesting topics online ;) Super stoked to be launching today, and hope y'alll enjoy it!

It's curious to see this launch (congrats!) Just as @sandimac's Quibb is shutting down. Thoughts? https://medium.com/@sandimac/far...

The 'curation' is the easier part, and I am excited to see the engagement windows. It will be interesting to see how you handle "content governance" when it grows - for what to filter. I have been curating content for a while now (launched ContentHug in 2015, closed last year as we struggled with part governance and part scaling), and I curate via Revue even now (example: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/...). So, I know the pains of "governance" or curated content!

is it alternative to YC's Hacker News?

What a winning team of ace players <3 On Deck Daily feels very much like https://www.designernews.co/ which I personally love! I wonder how do you guys plan to nurture users so they will come back to the platform and how you are going to control it so it will not become another manipulatable vote-based platform? Will be SO COOL to see this platform grow and become the most prominent place of all Entrepreneurs to come and discuss issues that close to their hearts. A million tons of luck, guys.