To the developers, are you using this with your own friends? Make it more of a hack for your own use (like your own CB radio or something) and see what happens. At the moment, the copy on the front page does not seem "real" enough, like it's written for your friends. It seems more like "strategy copy" or something you'd tell a VC. A penny for every "easiest way", "discover", "location", "around you".<p>In the interest of reducing sign up friction:<p>1. There's no need for a "Repeat Password" field. If a user types the wrong password, they can always use a "Change Password" link later.<p>2. Asking for an "Email Address" would be better than asking for a "Username". You kill two birds with one stone. Most people can remember their email address(es) but I know I don't remember the different usernames I use. Allow users to add multiple email addresses and sign in with any of these.<p>3. Ideally, you could make it that a user only needs to give you their email address to sign up.<p>4. Is "Sign Up" really the best copy to use on the first button you want a prospective user to click? What's the information scent there? What's the promise of value? What's the end result of signing up? Be more creative.<p>5. Things like COPPA, privacy policy etc. can go somewhere else.<p>Finally, what's your intention with ShoutFast? What's your motivation? Why are you doing this? Get your motivation right and the methods will follow. Don't worry about getting the methods right or cargo-culting. Just worry that you have the right motivation. Spend your time thinking about motivation and everything else will fall into place.<p>Well done on launching!
Seriously? YALBSN? (Yet Another Location-Based Social Network)<p>The social-network chicken-egg problem (SNCEP?) is even harder when it's location-based... not only do you need to convince people to sign up, but they have to be clustered location-wise to give them any functionality at all.<p>Without major marketing/promotional campaign and a really good hook, a new social network will never get off the ground.<p>"See who wants to... do.. stuff..." is not a suffiently compelling value proposition.
I have little to say about the main functionality at the moment, but I'm afraid my first visual impression of that stylized “o” in the logo is somewhat squick-worthy! Perhaps a bit of reworking might be in order?
I dunno, I guess services like this have kind of jumped the shark for me personally. Google+ ties much of this up in a nice little bow, for how I want to consume this data.
Your terms of service seem to be for a different site. It states: "shoutfast.com provides users with a search engine service to locate mp3 files and metadata from external web sites throughout the internet."<p>Would be great to let users know what each field is for in the signup form. They're all blank in Firefox.<p>Other than that I think it's a cool idea. Good luck!
You know what would be cool? I used to love getting on Def Con voice bridges when I was a kid. I think it would be neat to see anonymous location based voice chats. That way I can talk with people in my area instantly. This also suffers from the CE problem though. C'est la vie.
I'm in IE8 (Not my computer) trying to sign up, and it doesn't tell me what to put in the 3 fields: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/293Rp.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/293Rp.png</a>
It's a good idea! :) One of the problems that I foresee is the critical mass problem. Is the app as useful if you're the only one using it, as it would be if it had 100,000 members?<p>Good work though!
Field names on your signup form aren't visible in Internet Explorer.<p>It might be useful to indicate on a map where the locations are listed when you do a quick browse.
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Something went wrong on our side of things. We'll check it out and try to avoid this in the future.""<p>tried to sign in twitter, changed username, all others default (empty), chosen default picture, submitted form. http 500 #fail.