Would love to hear HN's thoughts on the idea that less is more earlier on and more is more later on in the product development life cycle.

Hey guys - by no means does this post profess to be comprehensive, so I'm hoping to stimulate a larger discussion around this issue. Anybody who works in software should be able to relate on some level...

Thanks in advance!

Me too. If you are interested in keeping it good, I can make you a mod.

Send it around to some ppl and if it catches on, we can start weeding out bad submissions. Theoretically it could be a GREAT way to discover.

Greetings Hackers - figured I'd give you the heads up that as of this AM, I couldn't find a solid sub-reddit for Spotify playlist discovery...

And so it came to be that I created /r/SpotifyPlaylists

Would love to turn it into a vibrant sub-community for music discovery.

There's also the older and active GroovesharkPlaylists subreddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/groovesharkplaylists

Robin,

Nice, simple idea - solid MVP. Good use case for text processing too because the domain of candidate phrases, patterns you are looking for is relatively small :)

Here are UX some suggestions:

-It will require some effort, but you should try to surface companies as tags if you can. Will be a popular feature...We did this at my last startup Tracked.com and it was a really popular. You can start by getting a list of companies via Crunchbase API and then use that set to do the entity extraction.

-Same as above, but for programming language keywords

-Show timestamps of Tweets (you've heard this a lot)

-Make links hypertext (you've heard this a lot)

Thanks,

@mileslennon

Why not connect your Twitter account? We won't post anything on your behalf...perhaps we should have made that clearer :/

I neither have nor want a Twitter account, but even if I did, there's no reason to want to link it to this service.

>Why not

Why In the first place?

I plain old don't want to use my twitter account for this, or be forced to create a throwaway account on a completely unrelated service just to have a throwaway account for yours. And all because you can't be arsed to do any real auth, or allow users to post without accounts at all, which given the nature what you've built makes a whole, whole lot of sense. If I want to have to to make an account as a prerequisite to posting a one-off blogpost, I'll go get a blogger account.

I don't care if you promise a whole huggy bunch not to do anything with my twitter account. I don't trust you and I sure as hell don't trust your website's security.

This is why (in my case):

You asked for permissions to * See who you follow, and follow new people. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets for you.

This is a no-no for me. I believe you can specify that you want read-only access, which would solve my problem.

For what it's worth, the need for a Twitter account was a no-go for me too..

Sorry me too, you're asking for too many permissions, why not just read-only if it's auth only?

What would make you stick to it? Or am I asking the wrong question: Does it even matter to you that you do stick to it?

I'm sure that I'll find myself updating it again. I think if I still had the motivation and focus I did when I was younger, I would be able to stick with it. But when blue skies and mountain calls you, you got to answer.

Ha! That blog is an awesome idea. So may ideas left to die (or...live on?) - I can completely relate...believe me. If you ever wanted guest contributors to THAT, I think there are probably a few others who can relate who read HN.

Hmm interesting idea. If anyone is interested in guest blogging on a blog with such "high traffic" shoot me an email. Or I could spin up an ideaplanet (like http://planetqt.org/) to aggregate blogs of such caliber.

Really like the insight you made about conversation starting. The problem is that most people won't believe they can actually attract the audience needed to create a fertile conversation on their blog.

Philosophically speaking, doesn't this boil down to having something meaningful to discuss? Otherwise you're just generating web noise but we're all guilty of that.

Thanks for the feedback. We did this in 8-10 hours - we left a lot out :)

The difference I guess is that we tried to create a blogging service that isn't a blog you need to maintain to feel good about.

I agree on the Twitter thing - open this up to anyone, let them grab a login with Twitter if they want, have a secret admin url if they want or have no editing ability at all - if they want.