Whenever I see a new service launched with such a gross misspelling as "fowndr" to "founder", I cringe and place it in my mental "doomed" bin. Wouldn't this service be better off with a longer name or different TLD, e.g. "startupfounders.com" or "founded.co"? Is there any evidence for startup success based on a misspelled name?
I don't want to knock the community, but I can't stomach the spelling barrier each and every time I would like to tell a fellow founder about his community. "Just go to founder dot com! What? Oh yeah, that's oh, en, double-u, um. Yeah, and drop the e. Not loading? Nevermind, I'll email you the link tomorrow, or never."
I think ever since the success of flickr, most companies have followed suit when faced with the unavailability of their desired named in the desired tld. Eg: Fiverr.com, Domainr.com ...
Just another forum focused on startups. My thoughts exactly.
I am curious the Unique proposition. Why should I join fowndr.com instead of posting my questions on quora/reddit, where there is an already proven userbase actively answering questions?
What's the tech stack for the site? Seems to be loading discussions quite slowly, which is worrying since it doesn't seem particularly busy at the moment. Might want to work on that, since it's a bit distracting (and distracting is the last thing you want when you're trying to get off the ground.)
I hope this takes off. It'd be nice to have a second place to go when the Apple news and Vim/Emacs debates take over the homepage here.
It's probably just the load. We're getting new visitations every second so it's taking a bit of a hammering. It's running on Rackspace dedicated, PHP 5.3, CodeIgniter, MySQL 5.5
