TipsBase is a new social network centered around sharing tips and tricks about a wide variety of topics, counting on user-generated content to populate the community site with interesting tidbits on why and how to do (or not do) certain things. The team behind the website likened it to a ‘YouTube for tips’, but that’s quite the overstatement.
TipsBase says it’s different from the crowded space of How To websites and other social networks where tips are shared via message boards and the likes, by providing a centralized platform where registered users can share short, practical advice about any topic ranging from business, computers and video games to fashion, pets, gambling and health. There’s also a social layer on top of it, where you can do classical social networking stuff like befriend people, subscribe to their tips, comment on articles, send direct messages, rate content, etc. This is similar to what Tipstrs is all about.
The team is convinced that users will benefit from the fact that TipsBase covers so many categories, but I tend to think niche communities or websites dedicated to tips and tricks about a limited set of topics work better. There are better resources for finding tips and tricks about video games, for instance, and I’m not even going to consider looking for tips on health or personal finance on a general website like TipsBase.
They’re also going to have a hell of a time moderating incoming tips (see second screenshot for example). Having your community flag spam and adult material is one thing, but I think the quality of the tips is what would make users come back for more, and there’s no way to assure that when all it takes for people to start sharing tips is providing their e-mail address and picking a password.
Testing on the comments, this is my first experience commenting
Won’t this get spammed by people simply trying to promote their websites? I’m already seeing it done across a range of topics. Unless of course, that’s the incentive to get user generated content…
I fail to see how this is any different than Yahoo Answers or Mahalo Answers.
Totally agree that having a very broad Tips site is a lot to manage.
The one difference is that nobody is asking questions, its just people sharing.
I like it.
I think it’s a nice idea for folks to share tips ad best practices. These are little hacks that might make life easier, but truth be told these exist in How To articles and sites like LifeHacker, etc.
Wish them the best…
how about having a facebook app for tips ? that may be a better alternative for sharing tips..
how about having a facebook app for tips … that may be a better alternative for sharing tips..
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I can see the spam already.
Well, maybe the internetworld is ready for that now. 5 years ago a friend startet something similiar. We’ll see… good luck
guys we need to support new startups i think. always there is a place for newcomers i think.
And yet another answer site.
All the information at tipsbase is allready located at special interest forums or blogs. There is no reason to get these information rearanged, because tipsbase does not help to match offer and demand of information. A platform that tells me cool tips for me would be cool – “personalizedtips.com”…
Yeh, they are going to have a hard time with spam…
I’m not impressed with this site. It doesn’t offer anything new.
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Great site. thanks.
worthless crap. is that what TC is down to now that the market sucks? you’re gonna cover every drupal, pligg and wordpress installation?
Are you against breast implants?
Another worthless plug from this girl/guy? Robin.
As per another comment, “tipsbase” is worthless crap.
Agree.
Mike, crappy posts like this one from Robin Wauters would surely make TechCrunch join the masses [as per your assessment] going down –TC’s quality is suffering from this s**t.
Do you really have difficulties finding tech companies doing well, offering interesting and valuable services and products? There are thousands out there.
Please get better writers/contributors.
http://www.tech...tful-but-arent/
By the way, I checked your IP address. There’s 31 PAGES of comments left by you, all the same style and poor spelling but oddly always in a different name with a bogus e-mail address.
You obviously have far too much time on your hands, and you’re too ignorant to learn how to troll intelligently using proxy servers.
I sincerely hope you find something more useful to do in the next year.
Yes, Robin, you are very *smart* –Now, why don’t you apply your *smarts* to your articles. They all suck.
Yes, our company has 324 employees, and share one IP address, and yes, many of us visit TC, not offering our email addresses to avoid spam, which I personally believe people like you are not above that…
At least 100 of us visit TC several times a day, and we like it, although this may change because of writers like yourself. Again, your posts are idiotic and of very poor quality…
… “Do you really have difficulties finding tech companies doing well, offering interesting and valuable services and products? There are thousands out there” …
Robin, obviously you do not take criticism very well, and waste your time trying to discredit some comments here. Instead of doing this, and if you could, please answer the very legitimate question posted above. Thank you.
Dr. Green
I like the site and I think it could become a very useful resource
Robin, I am sorry but I agree with Misha’s comments – such website is not worth reviewing at all. People can create similar website with few days at most using some open source application there.
‘Misha’ doesn’t even exist. Oh and http://www.tech...tful-but-arent/
@Daniel — I agree too. Contrary to what Robin says, Misha and others here in TC, do exist. He deletes comments that does not fit his views. Sad.
Ditto.
This guy is a retarded, vindictive sob.
The site is interesting, hope that they are successful fighting spam.
Cool.
Lame. The future is about buying domains that end in locator.com.
tipslocator
Everyone is entitled to there say