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From: A.H.A. (editor of Interesting Times) <allhailarnold@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Subject: Idea for some tiny web software: L337Quotes
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So, I have this nasty habit of taking things people say to me out of
context and quoting them as my status line on Msn Messenger. For the
lulz, you know.

Anyway, I have hundreds of these funny quotes lying around and I
thought it would be funny to upload them somewhere and maybe let my
friends vote and comment on them. So I immediately started thinking of
coding up some web software to do this. It's not enough to just dump
the quotes into a database, you also have to be able to vote and
comment on each quote and a few other features like presenting the
quote so it looks good (with those fancy apostrophes) and maybe
"here's some more quotes you might like". It should of course also
have all the typical Facebook/Twitter sharing options and so forth.

It seems to me that other people might have the same itch?

 I am thinking for instance reddit.com/r/seduction could use this,
since they are always posting those "motivational PUA quotes" threads
all the time. Same with LessWrong, they post one thread like that
every month (about rationality quotes) and let people vote on the
quotes. Basically, it would be very easy to convince these types of
online tribes to start using this software, since it makes their lives
easier and we would offer it to them for free.

Ideas on this? Here's one idea: it doesn't have to be quotes per se,
it can be any short nugget of valuable info that a particular group
wants to share. Think short food recipes, hacks, poems, whatever.

This software is very easy to code but if executed right I could see
it becoming a staple of modern web 2.0 infrastructure, similar to
bit.ly or imgur.com or whatever. Something that everyone just relies
on because it works and makes their lives easier. And if you get tons
of users, you (can) also get tons of cash :)