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Education News
Backstory: I'm starting a company to produce educational games (you can probably guess the URL) and I went…
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53points
11comments
#231of 1,097 in 2011
Top 22%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Idea: 4 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for the education community
From 3 comments
Awesome idea -- very useful. Thank you!
jonnycat on HNMahipal, thank you very much for setting this up. You have been such a great help to me as I'm also working on an educational game company. This resource is going to be really…
ahmedsiddiqui on HNGreat idea! I am starting up an education related non-profit and running a free online school for programmers (http://university.rubymendicant.com), and am definitely interested…
sandal on HN
Objections
Previous similar site was taken down after it never grew
From 1 comment
We (LearnBoost) were the ones that put it up about a year ago after about an hour of work - it's a simple but powerful concept, in theory [1]. We ended up taking it down a month…
rafaelc on HN
Questions
Why not use /r/education instead
From 1 comment
why not /r/education?
djb_hackernews on HN
Alternatives named
/r/education on reddit
From 1 comment
why not /r/education?
djb_hackernews on HN
Earlier HN-for-education site by LearnBoost
From 1 comment
We (LearnBoost) were the ones that put it up about a year ago after about an hour of work - it's a simple but powerful concept, in theory [1]. We ended up taking it down a month…
rafaelc on HN