For the past 2 months, I have been visiting a new social bookmarking site called Startup News, a product of Paul Graham’s Y Combinator. Startup News is exemplary proof that small-scale, niche social bookmarking sites can work exceedingly well. As you might expect, Startup News is limited to (tech) startups, business and related programming articles.
The site has a simple Reddit-style interface (I believe it is Reddit software considering Reddit started as a Y Combinator venture) and a dedicated group of users that post and comment on quality articles and issues. For those that aren’t into the whole startup scene, Y Combinator selects viable early-stage startups (typically comprised of young, bright college-aged coders) and helps them get on their feet with funding.
If you have any interest in tech startups or coding, Startup News is definitely a site to check out. I wasn’t paid for this post nor do I know anyone at Y Combinator, I just really enjoy this site. I’m in a situation where I’m not sure whether I want to pursue a job first thing out of college or do the startup thing, so Startup News has given me more insight into the startup world.
What are your thoughts on creating/working for startups? Another option might be working for a startup that is part of an incubator in a bigger company if you enjoy the startup life but would rather have the financial stability. For example, Yahoo! has Brickhouse.
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The site is definitely fun for startup news.
I myself like calling it “newsy” (news.y)combinator.com
As far as I know, it was only inspired by Reddit. It was actually built in Arc. Arc is a form of Lisp and created by Paul Graham. He thought it would be a good first project for his new language.
I like more variety when it comes to news (I have digg bookmarked, but it links to the most popular posts in the last 24 hours from all categories).
Neat website though
I really love Startup News, much more so than Digg… :)
Thanks for the pointer! There’s no descriptions in the RSS feed but everything I’ve clicked on so far has been worth reading so maybe it’s OK. And I see you got in it ;)
Paul, I think that startup is the way to go right now, especially if you have a killer concept or an improved idea of an existing killer concept.
I live in South Africa and am pursuing the startup route. Being young and ambitious I think that now is the perfect time to try, put your ideas out in the world and see if they work. If they do you are made, set and happy to do what you love, if they don’t you get a job in the industry you love, its a win win in my mind!!
I’m a big fan of news.YC as well.
Since you like news.YC, thought you might also like DailyHub.com. A niche social content site for business geeks. Focused more on business strategy, marketing and other related issues.
Just getting started, but content is pretty high quality since it’s a small group of submitters.
Should have made that a link for user convenience:
http://www.DailyHub.com (Social Content for Business Geeks)
I’m also a big fan of the news on the site and in general, the targeted nature of the articles. (I found your post on news.ycombinator.com)
>>>The site has a simple Reddit-style interface (I believe it is Reddit software considering Reddit started as a Y Combinator venture)
The site isn’t the reddit software, it’s written from the ground up by Paul Graham and friends in Arc – his new programming language.
Here’s YCombinator’s reasons for launching the site:
http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
Same here, read it, love it and also thinking about working on/for a startup. This service also helps create good buzz for YC-funded companies.
Dimitry
Simple and full of rich content. I like it! :D
[duh... know you made me read all about Y Combinator as i didn't knew them.. cool :) ]
Cheers from Athens.
Working for a startup is an amazing and fascinating experience. I highly recommend it before you start your own startup :)
I was working for a startup which acquired by Broadcom and i can ensure you the whole thing it’s really fun but hard work. I won’t get into details about the Corp environment [which i love], since you know how it is from your Yahoo! experience.
Anyway, don’t forget to read this: How to start a startup by Paul Graham.
I love news.YC, whats your screename Paul?