Love the new tab Chrome extension. @andreasklinger built a Chrome extension for Product Hunt that displays the day's top products before he joined the team.
@jason - I'm really interested in your strategy to build separate apps for different topics (e.g. Inside Drones). How do you choose which category to move into next?
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@rrhoover I can see a lot of similar aspects on its strategy and PH's horizontalization. It's a big challenge to new products scale like this, since they grew its users community based on a central subject or market...
We'll face exactly the same on our new product and I'm studying a lot about it, specially to build a more distributed users' base. Any thoughts or reference materials on it?
@rrhoover we did a lot of vertical at weblogs inc, and it was all very experiemental. We did a Wifi Blog, then an Apple blog (tuaw.com!), a World of Warcraft blog, and stumbled in Engadget, Joystiq and Autoblog. I never thought the big categories would work, i thought we were going to be a b2b publisher. that was my goal!
then Engadget exploded and we have a foothold... and we built form that base to video games. then TVSquare and Cinematical.
that's what we're doing at Inside.com right now... experimenting. we've got minor traction in a couple of places, but we need to get out "engadget" moment going... and i think TLDR might be it.
@sydney_liu_sl natural extension... i see what you did there! :-)
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love this, thanks for posting. For the past year, I've been doing the same with my weekly newsletter 'what happened last week?' (whathappenedlastweek.com), TL;DR-ing the 10 most important news of each week. Would love getting some feedback!
@sham_jaff great idea!!! i had a similar idea and i even bought domain name aday.com (for $40k) to do your idea... but daily! i.e. oprah.aday.com, howardstern.aday.com, reipe.aday.com -- haven't had time to get to it.
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Great concept!
Refreshing designs makes it more awesome
Edit: Sorry for my lack of good words , but I meant that TLDR has a refreshing design..
@anwaaramjad this is very 1.0, so i appreciate any feedback you can give us! also, product ideas to tldr@inside.com please
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@jason amazing idea, great execution. If I can only offer my opinion on the design, the font, photos and the way that it's set up it reminds my brain of the paid for articles that people adds into their blogs and makes me glance over it and not pay close attention. Personally I would like it if it's organized in a new way, that my brain doesn't relate it with something out there, sort of like a cross between reddit and medium! if that makes any sense.
@emivelazquez6 i had that same reaction. I would like it to be just a list of headlines w/thumbnail like hackernews. I think the team is going to make 3 different layouts and let you choose in 2.0 -- at least that's what i'm asking for!!!
ray? lon? adam? thoughts?
@emivelazquez6 Yeah we're playing with the design ideas right now. The 2 you mentioned (reddit & medium) have totally different vibes though. Do you prefer one over the other. Would love everyone's feedback on that, so we can make v2 even better.
@emivelazquez6 we've been talking about a few other ideas internally, one very vocal segment wants an entire text-based layout (no images). I've been thinking of something like finder, where you could change the size of the images with a slider
@adamdill@emivelazquez6 I think images are a very important element of a news app. You only have to look to the fact that images and videos trend better on social networks to see that people typically have a preferences for images or images with text than text alone. That said I do like the idea of being able to adjust the image size with a slider.
This is pretty cool and I love the name. Excited to see where this goes. As an easily distracted kinda user I think I'd prefer to see these headlines 1 at a time in iOS perhaps on cards? I'm a little too distracted by the next headline to take them in one at a time as it is.
@rickmesser Hey Rick. We are working on a new version already that will mix in a list of stories, and sometimes a single popular story. But this could be a cool toggle. See the whole feed...or just see 1 at a time. Thanks for the feedback...that's going on the feature board.
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@rickmesser maybe quit being a wuss? I dunno just a thought.
We spent a lot of time making all kinds of features for our news curation app, Inside, but the numbers kept saying the same thing: people just wanted to quickly browse the top news. So we made a simple, streamlined app called TL;DR to just give you the news right f*cking now, with conversational, jokey headlines to make it fun to read.
Take a look. Would love some thoughts and feedback.
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