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CenterNetworks has an excellent writeup on news.ycombinator.com. In it they have tried to compare news.ycombinator with Digg, Reddit and Netscape. News.YCombinator is a social news aggregator about startup related articles and posts. The difference from digg is that it is startup focused period, so nothing fancy is done. Just startup news and users could only vote the story favorably. My experience with using it suggests that for every article that does not hit the front page of Digg, Reddit or Netscape, news.ycombinator sends you more traffic than all these three sites combined. The reason in case of my blog is obvious, since most of the audience at news.ycombinator is startup focused which is exactly the audience this blog caters to. Clearly news.ycombinator has drafted a great niche for itself and is generating some good traffic alongwith some great PR for the seed fund.
Remember what Paul use to say. “Create something what the users want and a way to answer this is to ask what you want” (Ok these might not be the exact words, but this is how I have memorized it.). news.ycombinator was something that Paul wanted for himself and in trying to achieve that he has created something that a large number of users want and will surely use.
