I just checked out startup.kroud.com and it seems super fast.<p>* This might just be me, but I'd suggest you improve your home page, perhaps add "Why use Kroud" or "Features" and such. To be honest, no one really cares unless you're some hotshot(don't mean to rad). Instead of that put what people say about Q&A. Here's an example: "63% of communities lose their members because of engagement. — WSJ" and then some button below that says something like: "Rewin those members with kroud"<p>* You're "selling" your product not yourself - remove the "Hey I'm Stu." Replace it with something regarding WHY JOIN<p>* Your headline is a bit vague("Questions and answers for your community"). When I first saw the headline I thought, oh this is probably some week open source project. I checked out your product and I think something like "Get your free hosted Q&A community up in minuets" or something.<p>* Good work on building some sort of comfortability with social proof.<p>I'm curious, how is this different than already-existing services like Sponge(getsponge.com) or<p>Oh, and, start charging for it.<p>Best of luck to you
Just signed up.<p>Holy balls, is this fast! Mind sharing some details of your tech stack?<p>Secondly, can guests actually ask things? They have a text box, but no "Post" button, and if you hit enter, the text goes away, but the question doesn't seem to be asked. This is important to me, because I don't want my users signing up for Yet Another Service just to ask a question...
Looks great. The homepage is dead on: simple explanation of what it does, a live example, and a prominent signup button.<p>One issue to think through: companies would likely want to integrate the user management with their existing apps. That is, if a user is signed up for my web app, I'd like for them to have the same identity when on kroud. Sort of a federated authentication scheme. Likely not easy to do, but that'd be the major point preventing me from adopting kroud instead of hosting something ourselves.<p>Who did the design? I really like the simple and clean look.
Stu, thus far I have been really pleased. For us, Kroud is a Quora + Uservoice for our customers. The goal is to create a community around best practices and FAQs.
There is room for more than one Q&A building tool. You can be the low-cost or you can be targeted on one specific industry.<p>You may need to pivot, but only if you don't get any traction.