Back in the day there was demand due to popularity.. in 2025, people are on various social media sites. I hardly read blogs myself, especially ever since X allowed paying customers to write long posts.
Even if you wanted to go back to blogging, you'd have to do it on substack, medium or some such platform with social built in.
My money is blogging being mostly for SEO. I don't know who's on the other end of the clicks, but they aren't reading for readings sake..
Finishing the last 10-20% to release a project and then getting enough eyeballs on it are infinitely harder than creating the app, and I'm finally experiencing it first hand
I still have https://founderfodder.com going as well. That's where I get my HN news now. I get to read the story, or at least its summary, and also read the comments summaries like an editorial. It's great!
My new project is https://bingeworthyshows.tv where i take all the curated YouTube channels and make them easy to watch so you don't have to rot your brain on Netflix shows you don't really want to watch but end up watching because you can't find anything better to watch
I'm somewhere between the two extremes.. it's not so bad that I want to put it down, and it is also not as good as what some claim. On average, it's better than hand coding everything though, and even for digging into code written by others
I built https://founderfodder.com as an alternate way to read HN stories, plus it has summaries of the stories and the comments if you want to save some time
Nice. I've played around with this idea a bit. How do you handle the data and what do story+comment section prompts look like? Do you take the source material in for story generation?
