Ask HN: HN for non-techies?

9 pointsby itry13 anni fa9 comments

What do you guys consider the most "non-geek" site that has the same or a similar format to HN?

I constantly rave about HN to my friends, but nobody is interested in the contents here. Wouldnt this format also work for other news?

4 comments

jaebrown13 anni fa

I believe you may to want to state the subject matter that you would like to get your friends engaged with. If it's stuff like SEO, social media, CPC and business, then try inbound.org. Other then that a sub-reddit around specific content may be your only shot. There are sub-reddits for just about everything. Once you create an account and choose your sub-reddits, that is all you see.

tnorthcutt13 anni fa

Metafilter + Ask Metafilter.

sciurus13 anni fa

Seconding this.

http://www.metafilter.com/

http://ask.metafilter.com/

pasbesoin13 anni fa

With some reservation... fearful of it becoming "overrun".

jstanley13 anni fa

Isn't reddit basically what you're thinking about?

itry13 anni fa

Reddit is MUCH too geeky for my non-techie friends. Also it doesnt look civilized like HN. It looks like one big confusing mess of untrustworthy chaos. And it doesnt look intelligent. My friends are not interested in cat photos and celebrity gossip.

merqumab13 anni fa

Unsubscribe from the default subreddits and you'll find more intelligent discourse.

pasbesoin13 anni fa

Focus on sub-reddits.

JacksonGariety13 anni fa

You should check out TL: http://thelist.io

Same format, only less tech-focused.