Why is Techmeme so successful?

Question

Looking at Techmeme, it looks like a simple product. Very well done, yes. It looks like they spend a lot of time curating the news, no doubt assisted by software. But still, a simple product with low barrier of entry.Why then is there close to zero competition? I don't see any site coming even close to their product.I have a sense that I am missing something. Is this business harder than it looks?

shawnpang · Accepted Answer

I am a huge fan of a similar product in China - https://tophub.today/Wish someone could have made a better version. https://techurls.com/ has better user interface but seems like some contents are not being updated.

spansoa · Answer

Any aggregator will be successful since people don't want to manually search for news & trends. The real trick is aggregating the aggregators. That's still a hard problem.

gigatexal · Answer

I hadn't heard of it until the TechMemeRideHome podcast fwiw