Hi,<p>This is the startup that I've been developing: www.ledova.com It's a site to help people share what they like/don't like about their job and other people could get an inside scoop of what's going on in the companies.<p>We have just released it so we definitely need a lot of feedback (and reviews =) ) from you guys! Also, would like to get more ideas for promoting the site, and getting more reviews and users?<p>If anyone wants to contact me directly you can email me at eric.ctwan@gmail.com
First: congratulations on getting far enough to feel comfortable sharing your work with us.<p>What sort of requirements do you have for email addresses? In help (/help.php) you say that users need an email address, but don't really go into specifics, which is fine. However, one of mine (message me outside the thread if you want specifics, I guess) failed as invalid when I tried to register.<p>The privacy policy (/privacy.php) mentions that users are encouraged to provide a corporate email address and (or?) linkedIn profile for verification. I didn't see any way to provide this when registering, nor do I see any way to provide this when I go to write a review. If you require this later (e.g., after I attempt to submit my review), it might be nice to say so somewhere. If not, it might be nice to remove that line from the privacy policy, at least until you add that bit of functionality, as it seems a trifle confusing, at least to me.<p>You're probably planning this already, but some sort of information on the number of reviews for a company in your company list would be nice (or a way to filter out companies that don't have any reviews).<p>Do you plan on encouraging users to give an overall rating in some easily displayed/read format for their employer (e.g.: the stars of coderific)? Most of the content, of course, is in the text, but I find myself missing the summary stars/number when skimming.
Feedback: looks like (1) a fast way to get sued, and (2) an easy way to spend a lot of time without being able to make money. I wish you luck but I don't see a business model here. Interesting, yes, but how will you make money? I see only a few ways to make money:<p>* Advertising (recruiters being the likely choice)
* Selling your database to recruiters<p>What do you see that I don't see?<p>Good luck though - I hope it works out for you.