Maddox's humor site, a long-running 1990s-style HTML page with rants, essays, and critiques of media and technology.
HN commenters reference it as a classic old-web site, citing his contemporary iPhone critique and listing it among deliberately plain web pages.
Oh man, not another "11 sexy girls with star wars tattoos"...
Normally I would follow "if you don't have anything nice to say" but since you literally asked for it:
Your site tries to build a better mousetrap in one of the worst corners of the internet (better means 'worse' in this case). "List sharing" is a known cheap trick for internet marketers who are the bottom of the barrel, exploitative of both original content creators and those prone to being sucked in to mindless content (aka internet junk food).
Maddox has a memorable rant that sums it up better than I can: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ranker_sucks
Your site is not unlike the "reply girls" cancer that devalued youtube, or the fake thumbnails showing cleavage on related videos for everything.
Why would you want to "revolutionize the world of lists"? This doesn't even make sense.
> Have you see the crap (including Nokia and Sony) that passed for smartphones before the iPhone and Android devices came along?
I have to disagree with you here. The first iPhone was awful and the smartphones and PDAs of the time were in my opinion way ahead of the iPhone. I will concede that the established players failed their market, as people in general (as opposed to techies) wanted a sleek device with nice UI over the features that people took for granted until the iPhone.
I know it's not to be taken seriously, but this neatly expresses my opinion at the time the iPhone came out:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
I know it's not entirely in keeping with the spirit of this site, but there's a part of me that really wants to snark,
"Oh no! We might no longer have meaningful competition for random-ass, dumbed-down, emotionally manipulative pictures to add to news articles! So next time you read an ad-bloated article about prices going up, they might not be able to afford to include a picture of an average Jane pushing a shopping cart! Truly, a loss to us all!"
Edit: Maddox's classic take on annoyance with stock images:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=stock_photos
Every time I read one of these stories on social media where a bunch of people are looking for someone, I think of this:
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=dancing_man
What if Mr. Douglas doesn't want to be found? Collectively, we get all up in arms about the iPhone backdoor debacle because of its obvious violations of one's personal private space, but we'll simultaneously engage in internet mob tactics to find this guy.
> I contacted the Human Resources at Pagar.me, the company i have worked with him, i'll try to get his house phonenumber.
Wow.
What actually happened is that a superficial image of the nerd/geek culture has been appropriated by "our" former bullies.
The popularity of "I fucking love science" or "BBT" doesn't mean shit in this context. There was a short polemic essay [1] by Maddox about this phenomena.
The same topic is discussed in the video "You're Not such a Nerd: Commodification of Nerd and Gamer Sub-culture" [2]
[1] http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7A5OgfP4NA
I don't see much wrong with that logic; frankly, it sounds to me like much better solution than what's happening now. And if they really, really need to kill some people, then Operation Penny-Drop still sounds much better than what they do now.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=penny_drop
(warning about the site: contains lots of offensive and obscene language that can mask the author being usually right about things)