Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders(stugreen.com)
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Show HN: Fowndr.com Launched - A community of startup founders
http://stugreen.com/blog/2012/08/fowndr-launched-want-to-join-a-community-of-founders
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Whenever I see a new service launched with such a gross misspelling as "fowndr" to "founder", I cringe and place it in my mental "doomed" bin. Wouldn't this service be better off with a longer name or different TLD, e.g. "startupfounders.com" or "founded.co"? Is there any evidence for startup success based on a misspelled name?
I don't want to knock the community, but I can't stomach the spelling barrier each and every time I would like to tell a fellow founder about his community. "Just go to founder dot com! What? Oh yeah, that's oh, en, double-u, um. Yeah, and drop the e. Not loading? Nevermind, I'll email you the link tomorrow, or never."
What problem does this solve that Quora doesn't? Seems like you might have a hard time competing.
Just another forum focused on startups. My thoughts exactly.
I am curious the Unique proposition. Why should I join fowndr.com instead of posting my questions on quora/reddit, where there is an already proven userbase actively answering questions?
I am curious the Unique proposition. Why should I join fowndr.com instead of posting my questions on quora/reddit, where there is an already proven userbase actively answering questions?
Cool. Just signed up.
What's the tech stack for the site? Seems to be loading discussions quite slowly, which is worrying since it doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment. Might want to work on that, since it's a bit distracting (and distracting is the last thing you want when you're trying to get off the ground.)
I hope this takes off. It'd be nice to have a second place to go when the Apple news and Vim/Emacs debates take over the homepage here.
What's the tech stack for the site? Seems to be loading discussions quite slowly, which is worrying since it doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment. Might want to work on that, since it's a bit distracting (and distracting is the last thing you want when you're trying to get off the ground.)
I hope this takes off. It'd be nice to have a second place to go when the Apple news and Vim/Emacs debates take over the homepage here.
It's probably just the load. We're getting new visitations every second so it's taking a bit of a hammering. It's running on Rackspace dedicated, PHP 5.3, CodeIgniter, MySQL 5.5
I'm not sure why AngelList/Venture Hacks doesn't have this feature. Still very cool stuff.
How is it compared to StartupGuild (http://startupguild.net/)?
EDIT: Just opened it, have another question: How is it compared to Ask/Show HN?
EDIT: Just opened it, have another question: How is it compared to Ask/Show HN?
Trying to access on my iPhone, and instead of a site I get a request to download a "fowndr.com.gz" file.
Great to see that Fowndr.com is being opened to public. Keep up the good work Stu!
I remember joining up about a year ago (?) & thinking "man, this is an awesome idea, it just needs more users". Congrats on launching, Stu!
Not too keen on the logo font, but the design of the rest of it is great. Hopefully you can get the comment counts up and take off.