Worked up about that traffic jam you had to endure before getting to work? Tired of your spouse’s emotional outbursts or simply annoyed with the rainy weather? Sure, you could head over to Twitter or Facebook to rant away, but you could also visit VentNation, a new place on the Web where you can vent your frustrations out loud using text, video, images or links.
You can choose to do so in a variety of categories, either anonymously or using your own name, and you can even rate other users’ vents by using a slider placed next to each entry. Once you’ve published your rant, you can push it out to a range of other social networks with just a couple of clicks, allowing you to easily share your frustrations with as many friends and family members you can possibly reach on the Internet.
Alternatively, you can simply try to relax a bit and work out any issues you might have on your own or with the help of a professional. Because frankly, I think the last thing the Internet needs at this point is another website that collects rants from frustrated people.
Maybe this will eliminate some of the Facebook updates that are overly negative.
Hope springs eternal.
Thank you Robin for the write up.
…because those who are literate and have access to the Internet really have a reason to complain. Self-absorbed a$$holes.
…and here we have you complaining…say no more…
The site is so going to be toxic.
Great concept, fun site; but has an ugly and long name (domain)
The site name isn’t that long. Heck, ventnation.com is the exact same amount of characters as Techcrunch.com
Once I suggested (on my intranet innovative ideas site ) to have a room where people can release their tension and anger by punching sand bags and stuff …. and it was totally ridiculed by all others.
Moral of the story….a frustrated, disgruntled employee is not welcome anywhere…so if your background checks show that you have vented too much it just is a turn off for your prospective employers and even current ones.
They should buy the domain, Vent.com
Do you own that domain name?
no, i don’t own it
I love there meta keyword strategy
GREAT SITE! Some interesting stuff on there, will probably bookmark it and use it periodically. Agreed about those keywords…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, funniest sh-t I’ve ever seen.
I like the idea. I can see product owners (Coke, Apple, etc) looking at where the larger painpoints in their product lines are with sites like this one and consumerist.
I liked the gauge on the side indicating the current mood of all users. Wonder if we get to have a witch-hunt with forks and torches if it goes too high..
This is a stupid niche site that will be gone in a month, and people will flood it with fake “vents”, just like textsfromlastnite, fmylife, etc etc.
that has been done so many times already
yeah – ventbox came and went with a whimper a couple of years ago
why ventnation when tc works fine?
it is unfortunate that there are real companies out there and this one gets a post on the holy grail of tech review websites. jokes are supposed to be funny.
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Why did this site get a post? I’m not sure if I see what’s so special about it. Like the article says, there are plenty of places to vent online.
They got some jacked up keywords! “sexual vents” “bisexual dating” lmao
other than that I guess the site is useful for spilling the beans. let’s not forget however that similar sites juicycampus, ventbox, etc slowly went the way of the dodo bird after brief spurts of popularity.
so godspeed, ventnation.
This site is exactly what I needed!! I feel the need to make my status updates on facebook PG when I really want to say whatever I want…. but having old professors and little brothers as friends on facebook has censored me a bit!
Must be a slow day in the Techcrunch world. At least in Robin’s world =0)
A post about an old Twitter feature, and now one about a site we’ve all seen before and has nothing innovative or unique.
Love it. Absolutely love it.
Agreed, this site will be toxic, but also very entertaining. I like it. Keep twitter filled with positive mental attitude – nobody wants to hear complaining over twitter.
These sorts of sites aren’t *always* filled with insane toxicity. I run a much simpler site in the same niche, and only a fraction of the posts there are negative. It’s full of people blurting out embarrassing things and wallowing in despair.
It’s not profitable (for me), but it is good karma, which is why I suppose nothing *really* bad ever happens to me.
lol those is some f$#ked up keywords yall got on your site! points for that, i’ll be hittin up this site i guess it has a good concept, but like they say trends come n trends go.
I know site very similar to that, http://www.complaint-box.com. It’s a little less extravagant, but there’s no registration. I have enough sites that I’m registered for and it’s anonymous. My favorite one is “My fat a$$ed bridesmaid”.
Really? Another site that requires a login just to blow some steam. I started http://ventanon.com about a month ago. No logins, only a few words that aren’t allowed, and real anonymity (no email addresses required to comment/post).
Although I have to say I’m a bit jealous of his voting mechanism.
Great site. I always say that Facebook is about either telling jokes at others expense or complaining about your life. So this site handles the second human condition.
Have you heard about Muttr.com? Seems to be growing pretty quickly… It allows the user to speak freely and say whatever is on their mind, anonymously, and it feels great doing so!
Muttr is straight to the point, simple, eye pleasing, and extremely easy to use. It will remain my choice for quite some time now! Trust me there’s plenty of things I will always need to vent about lol.