Why is startups.com so freakily similar to this site?
Or it's the other way around?
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Lulz. Have you checked it lately? It's for sale. – Cad Bloke 11 years ago
7 Answers
We were first, so they copied us. :-)
Justin's right that this is the risk you run with off-the-shelf software.
However:
- We wouldn't have built a better platform faster, so they would have won on that.
- It's not the software anyway. It's the content of the questions and answers!
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+1. Trust that quality of this community in the long run will speak for itself. – Jesper Mortensen 15 years ago
OK, I got it - StackExchange. Still, they look so same, and do the same thing too.
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Hahaha. Kewl. Checking it out now. – Jpartogi 15 years ago
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Now that you got it, pick an answer ;) – Jeff O 15 years ago
Both sites use the same software platform - stackexchange.com However, one of the big differences is that in this site the hosts are well known successful entrepreneurs and they also do take the time to answer questions all the time - Thanks Jason and Dharmesh!
Have to laugh. My company Page Mage is featured today on killerstartups.com. So there is startups.com as another one of the featured companies today right along side of us. So I hit the link and my head started to spin. I had to look closely to see if I was just back in this site.
But of course, this site is WAY more awesome. They only have about 142 users compared to over 1,000 here plus a lot more activity.
That's the main problem with using off the shelf software rather than a more custom solution. (There are lots of benefits however)
This is a great example of how having the community split between two locations undermines the purpose of each site in the first place! OnStartups is rapidly becoming a great resource because of the huge number of users that quickly jump in with advice and tips.
