Ask HN: We aren't getting users to create stories on our content platform – why?
your home page just says real big &quot;sign up to...&quot;<p>I would think most people are not interested in signing up for anything, especially something they don&#x27;t know what it is.
(does anyone want more spam, or trust some place they know nothing about)<p>I would put the sign up smaller and the home page show the best 3 -5 examples of awesome uses for your timeline thing.<p>I looked at a few timelines, and all I could think to myself is, &quot;tumblr&quot; - with a slightly modified theme. Or wordpress, or blogger, or just about all the other &quot;post here on our portal&quot; things out there.<p>Not sure why people would want to post on your thing, or the other things actually.<p>If I was looking for a place to post my previous stuff, I would want to know more about cost. Wordpress.com runs ads on the side and you can go premium to remove them, get themes, etc. They have a strong track record for fighting for their users against lawyers and stuff as well, and mostly not censoring.<p>The cost of each place is different. Given that the content is controlled by others, we don&#x27;t want to trust valuable content to other&#x27;s land.<p>If you made it really easy to export everything automatically, and made it really easy for a group &#x2F; gathering of people to share to a common timeline, I could see a group of people uploading candid wedding pics to a place they could all share easily.<p>Otherwise I don&#x27;t know why people would trust content here as opposed to other more well known places. The others aren&#x27;t perfect, but you can be sure that a certain level of trust exists for most content posted.<p>Commercial Spam is always looking for new places to post, but the well funded commercial stuff is already making stories on instagram and snapchat and similar elsewhere. I think it&#x27;d be a long time before you had enough viewers to catch their interest.<p>Just some random thoughts from here, I am likely not your target audience.<p>Airdrop party pics and share a url with new friends easily maybe, make them private for a fee? You&#x27;d need to be easier than Flickr to upload and share.. I dunno.