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I just launched a site with hardly any features

20 pointsby swGooFover 13 years ago

6 comments

eggbrainover 13 years ago
No one will like a site without a few more of those features your site doesn't have. There's the old phrase "it's whats on the inside that counts", but with first impressions, that's simply just not true.<p>I look at your site, and I see its a poorly designed, poorly implemented site. For most people, that's enough to immediately leave the site, and not come back. First impressions are extremely important, and your site gives off a terrible first impression. When someone sees someone link to your site again, they will immediately think to themselves "this website again? I hated it my first time there." and then you will have to convince them that it is worth it to go back. It takes a lot more effort to convince someone your site is good later on, than take the time and effort to make it good to begin with.<p>Why don't I immediately see when I go to the homepage how I can submit my own idea? No, I have to go to an idea first (at least from what I can tell) to submit an idea.<p>Why do I need to click into an idea in order to vote it up/down? Put a plus next to the title, which will expand text below it, and then have the Good/Bad buttons next to the idea.<p>The Free CSS template makes your website seem cheap. It immediately shows that you haven't thought about personalizing the site for your users, but rather phoned it in in order to put your site out there.<p>Never expect people to like a site that has shown that no effort was put into it to begin with, to justify to yourself to put more effort into said site. The phrase "I am not going to spend time implementing features for a site no one will use" boils my blood, because you as an entrepreneur are the showman: if you'll only do a song and dance after people say they loved you, even without knowing you, you'll never get a gig ever.<p>You get people to care about your site, not the other way around. You've shown that you don't care about your site, and so thus other people will care even less.
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Archioover 13 years ago
Interesting idea (that is, launching the site with hardly any features). Good way to make sure the product doesn't become vaporware.
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SquareWheelover 13 years ago
"Social Media Sharing Links - It is not easy for a person to Facebook like or tweet an idea"<p>Sign me up!
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simonover 13 years ago
A nice idea. Some folks may be nervous about expressing ideas without an NDA involved, but do we want their ideas anyway? :-)<p>The design looked nice, but it was not intuitively obvious how to get back from an idea to the main screen.
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mquinlanover 13 years ago
One feature that feels kinda necessary while the ideas are sparse is the ability to skip (or not have repeating) ideas. Otherwise, I feel like I've already read over all the submissions in just a few minutes.
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swGooFover 13 years ago
I made the site non-functional. It was getting bombarded with spam.