I launched a website a few weeks ago that allows you to search socially shared photos across various sharing services (like Instagram, PicPlz, Snapr and Steply) and also gives you a combined timeline if you signup and link your accounts.<p>Traffic to the site has been good, but it seems to have gone flat over the past couple of days. I suspect one of the reasons is that people visit the site and then don't have an easy way of participating or sharing the experience (or maybe that's just what I'm hoping the issue is).<p>Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?<p>PS. The link to the website is: http://snapfinch.com if you want to check it out.
Your site is beautiful, the kind of site I would share with my friends because I want to.<p>But a lot of the things I tried don't work properly. For example, I tried to heart a photo but clicking on the heart icon didn't do anything. So, I realised maybe I need to sign in first. I connected with my Twitter account, but then instead of taking me back to the photo I was looking at, I got a page asking me to share the site with my friends. Anyway I went back to the photo, but I still could not heart it.<p>Then I saw a few comments on a photo and wanted to add mine. But it said sign in to comment. But I thought I just signed in with Twitter. So I click on sign in anyway. And it turns out just connecting to Twitter does not sign me in. There's another step involved. Why is that?<p>I think you need to focus on the user experience and make it smoonth, simple and enjoyable. Then people will share it automatically.
May I suggest that you challenge your assumptions? Maybe the problem isn't sharability but something entirely different. Having said that, here are some general suggestions:<p>1. Make a widget creator that allows members to easily display photos on their site. Offer this as a service to (news) blogs.<p>2. Maybe you could offer a suite of commercial services? I can imagine some companies wanting to analyze their social photography presence. What about alerts a la google?<p>3. Are you working on an android/iphone app? I think you should be working on an android/ihpone app!<p>4. Any gamification you can throw in? How about battle between two photos where members can vote on the best/funniest/most touching one? How about score boards with people with the most comments, views, uploads, etc. There is so much fun to do in this space <a href="http://gamification.org/wiki/Encyclopedia" rel="nofollow">http://gamification.org/wiki/Encyclopedia</a>
your site looks really great, but I miss the feeling of (social) activity on the front page.<p>Sorting pictures by the last disovery or most liked photos with a small "time ago" field could give it a feeling of a more active community.
The site is amazingly beautiful. But I don't immediately get what the point is. I do have a MySpace and Facebook account but rarely log in. I don't have a twitter account. So maybe I am just not the target audience. But I am wondering if some kind of info (on the front page) about what you can do with this would help? (Or maybe I'm the only twit who just can't figure it out -- I also had difficulty adjusting to the spare design of HN and your site is similarly clean-lined and elegant-looking.)