Star Trek Online Website Launched!
I am a big fan of Stack Overflow and their Stack Exchange sites.
I have recently created Stack Exchange sites for London and SAP BASIS. Neither of these have taken off though.
Maybe the London one has too small an audience – as there are only 7.421 million people (2004 estimate) living there and only a very small percentage of them would want to use a Q&A site about London. Of course a large number of people visit London, but I don’t know if they would spend time asking and waiting for answers.
The SAP BASIS site is ideal for SAP BASIS questions, but it has actually been hard to advertise as SAP BASIS is a niche market and the SAP sites that I have visited don’t allow promotion of external SAP websites. I tried to post about it on the SAP IT Toolbox website, but it was blocked by a moderator. I have posted on a few sites, but it hasn’t brought in much traffic.
http://epicadvice.com/ is a World of Warcraft game based site, based on Stack Exchange framework. It is doing quite well, so that gave me the idea to create a similar site for Star Trek Online. So today I created the site LCARS – Star Trek Online, created 25 questions and publicised it on some Star Trek Online related websites and Stumbleupon. So far it has had 197 visits, 307 page views but 0 new users, questions or answers…
Maybe I should create some dummy users and answer some of the questions, to give the impression that the site is active? I might do that tomorrow.
I do feel that once I have 1 really active site (i.e. thousands of visitors per day), it then makes it easier to publicise other websites from that main website. This seems to be the formula used by other companies.