Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet unpopular sites that you visit?

11 pointsby adrianwajvor 17 Jahren6 comments

The question is mainly to extract the hidden gems that you have uncovered lately or in the past and would like to share with the HN community - so called Best-of-Breed sites.

Obviously, mainstays like search engines and rss readers would be assumed everyone uses regularly.

Good mashups are worth stating.

Social proof, especially here, is valuable.

2 comments

0x47vor 17 Jahren

I recently discovered etherpad: http://etherpad.com/

Which has been helpful in collaborative grocery list creation among other things.

[deleted]vor 17 Jahren

adrianwajvor 17 Jahren

-- personally, I use a Twitter client that I built but won't promote so shamelessly here.

-- I also use a slinkset site aggregating many feeds of new website releases.

davidwvor 17 Jahren

If you spent time building it, why would you be ashamed of promoting it? I mean, don't spam me with it every time you post here, but if you're proud of it, let the world know.

adrianwajvor 17 Jahren

okay, it's here: http://twitya.com/

I am proud of it, traffic hasn't really climbed even after spikes from being linked elsewhere, like on a TC comment, so I'm thinking it's more of a very niche site.

It avg's only about 50 uniques a day.

GeneralMaximusvor 17 Jahren

Why don't you try submitting it directly to HN, Digg, Reddit, <whatever>? If you have an interesting tool, I'm sure people will upvote. In fact, proggit loves homegrown projects.

adrianwajvor 17 Jahren

I'll look into it. Thanks.

I'm generally averse to wasting people's time, I'm also somewhat detached to the worldly success of the site as I'm happy using it myself. Also, I think as a twitter client, there might only be 2 others that use it regularly for that purpose.

Side note: for a while I started collecting information about what people were doing on the site using ajax posts to the server as it's all client-side, and I found a regular Chinese user who'd possibly setup a bogus twitter account of a fictional gay character linking to products for all his followers.

It's going to need about 3 times more traffic to start getting feedback and PR momentum. I think the site will only stick with a small portion of people that visit it. So it'd need to be hyped a lot, which is not my thing if it ends up wasting people's time in the process.