Ask HN: Please evaluate my reddit-clone

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16 years ago

I've been thinking about putting a spin on social news and I decided to put up a prototype to test my idea.

The idea/twist is simply this: Use full sentences as a subreddit name.

So instead of subscribing to subreddits:

- worldnews

- technology

You would 'subscribe' to:

- I am interested in world news.

- I am interested in technology news.

You can subscribe to other 'full sentence' subreddits like:

- I love Star Trek.

- I need a student loan.

- I enjoy rock climbing.

- I am worried about the global economy.

Thus, submitting a link would look like:

- Title: Greek tremors continue to rock markets - CNN.com

- URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/05/05/...

- Target this link to people with this profile:

    -- I am interested in world news.

    -- I am interested in technology news.

    -- I am worried about the global economy.

The difference may look minor, but I think it provides an interesting twist on submitting links.

For example, here's another possible submission:

- Title: Star Trek club is more than ‘stereotypical nerds’

- URL: http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/04/22/star-trek-club-is-more...

- Target this link to people with this profile:

    -- I love Star Trek.

    -- I enjoy rock climbing.

If you want to play around with submitting a link, you can use any of these demo accounts:

hn_demo1

hn_demo2

hn_demo3

hn_demo4

The password for all of them is: hacker

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