Hans Across The Interwebs

I’m going to start posting about how I’m trying to get my little social community around books and reading off the ground.

For those of you not in ‘the know’, I’ve been working on this labour of love called Wordsy.com. It’s kind of a digg-clone, but - as I call it - for a different kind of geek. The service is aimed at people who are into books. Like me.

First off, I’d like to start with a little disclaimer: I am very well aware that there is nothing technologically innovative about Wordsy.com. Nor is the concept of a social community particularly new. What is new however is that I’m focussing on people who like reading books of fiction, non-fiction, literature, that kind of thing.

Secondly, I’m not looking to sell quick or make millions of bucks with this thing. I took great care in choosing the subject for this community. I chose something which I really like, a subject close to my heart (almost as close as technology). So I’m ready to be in it for the long haul. Sometimes I’ll have some money to invest, sometimes not.

But I’ll always try to have as much fun as possible.

And the same will go for these posts. Starting the community obviously has the secondary goal of learning as much as possible about the ins and outs of the many aspects involved.

Tags: technology, UI, PR, marketing, hosting, optimizing, managing people, getting people, planning, financing, etc.

I’ll try to be as open as possible about this thing and share my experiences so others can learn from my mistakes and (hopefully) successes. As long as I’m enjoying myself I’ve nothing to lose.

So if you could ask a start-up bootstrapper anything you wanted, what would it be?