Poll: Would you like to join a new community powered news aggregator

I would just ship it and show it. Some ideas are nice in theory but everything depends on execution.

That's why I thought to ask it from the people.

Asking only gets you so far though. There's a reason the saying "actions speak louder than words" exists. Plus it's hard to answer this accurately without more info.

Take me... am I interested, in principle, in something like this? Yes. Am I going to sign up? I'd say the probability of "no" is about 90%. Why? Because attention is limited and there's some new "thing" coming out every day that somebody wants me to sign up for, and I can't be bothered to deal with most of them. The truth is, I wouldn't know if I really wanted to join your site until I can see the site, see the other users, get a feel for the community, etc.

I could be wrong, but I doubt I'm unique in this regard.

So what's the takeaway from that? I guess I'd say it's something like "don't put too much stock in a poll like this unless you get really extreme results in one direction or the other". I mean, if 10,297 people vote "yes" and 3 people vote "no", or vice versa, that would be a strong signal.

The harder part is if 5100 people vote "yes" and 5200 vote "no". How do you disambiguate the people who "voted no, but would actually join if the thing were appealing enough" or the people who "voted yes, but won't really join unless the thing is appealing enough"?

It's a little bit of a catch-22, sadly.

thescribbblr 6y ago ↗

Wow! Thank you so much for this! I am still figuring out what should I do but your suggestion would my top priority! A single sign-up means a lot to me.

vendiddy 6y ago ↗

Strongly agree with this comment. Especially for something that seems like "yet another X".

Once you ship it you can get more accurate feedback on why or why not someone will use it.