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This reminds me of Stumbleupon[1] from back in 2005-ish. I used to love using it before they decided to pivot and remove all of the things that made it great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon



Just tried findka out and going back to my comment about Stumbleupon, what I used to love the most about it was reading the reviews about the content I ^stumbled upon^ before even looking at the content. Pretty much the same manner in which most people use HN.

Additionally, reviews led to discovery of people with shared interests, when I saw the same people liking, sharing and commenting on stuff I liked. Following these people then added another layer of filtering to my ^stumbles^.

Might be food for thought.


I've thought about how this relates to Stumbleupon as well. I never used it myself, but it came up while I was looking for things similar to Findka.

I'm actually just starting to implement features like these. If you make an account then go the the Account tab, you can enable a public profile like this[1]. So far I'm planning to add follow/subscribe, commentary (i.e. comment on items instead of just rating them), and showing users who've rated the same items as you.

[1] https://findka.com/u/f962c926-43e1-406d-825d-3d7a4880befa/




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