Ask HN: (idea) A Blog on world's most creative hacks and side projects

4 points by tikna 14 years ago | 5 comments

I am inspired by a lot of projects posted on HN as "Weekend Hacks". Simply brilliant.

I am working on a blog to list out selected projects, know about their creators and the hacks. Already contacted few hacker's regarding their project, and first article is taking shape.

URL of landing page: http://hackers.li (Request you to subscribe)

I do not intend to make money out of it. Focus is on fulfilling the purpose of bringing out inspiring and creative hacks.

I am looking for suggestions or critics for the idea?

swanson 14 years ago |

Might want to collaborate with these guys: http://www.weekendhacker.net/

tikna 14 years ago | |

I am following this site since its launch. They are doing a great job. Most of the ideas coming from there are typical startup ideas. I am trying to target slightly different group.

Thanks for the inputs. :)

dholowiski 14 years ago |

Clickable http://hackers.li

Mz 14 years ago |

I would suggest you define your audience/find your audience. I say this as someone who has a couple of websites that grew out of emails I wrote on lists where I was popular and then, when I left one such list, the websites largely languished, in part because they had no audience, there was no one whom I was speaking to, there was no definition for what I should communicate. In recent weeks, I seem to no longer be the red headed bastard stepchild in some circles and, combined with other events in my life, I am beginning to write more. For now, I am mostly writing more emails for some subjects and it hasn't really led yet to significant development of the websites on those topics. I expect it to eventually lead to that, but it hasn't yet. However, on another topic entirely, I have found an audience and am suddenly productive after languishing a long, long time, even though the intended audience is currently only one person.

If you don't know whom you are speaking to, it is difficult to know what to say.

Best of luck.

tikna 14 years ago | |

Thanks for the inputs. I will keep that in mind. Targeting the right audience will be a sort of challenge for me because the idea is still untested.