Ask HN: What do you think of Hartli?

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14 years ago

Just co-founded a start-up (the Chaos Collective) a couple weeks ago with one of my previous co-workers and we've put together our first experiment. His name is Hartli and he's virtual a web-design critic.

For example, check out what Harlti thinks of sites like Wikipedia: http://hartli.com/facts?site=http://en.wikipedia.org#v=ed8d3b44c2eaa379998dfbbfc51334b8

In general, we want to make everything we build as open source as possible, but we're bootstrapping everything and want to find a way to make our new venture fair/sustainable.

I'm sure many of you have been down this road before. How do you balance open source with revenue? How do you get people to check out your projects and build momentum when they are still young?

We're super stoked about Hartli -- he's already checked out over 10,000 sites -- but have yet to put it to the real test of users, revenue, and long-term growth.

We're hoping to work on lots of little projects and experiments instead of building our new company around a single service or product. Here's what we have so far: http://blog.chaoscollective.org

Any thoughts would be great. thanks!