Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at:<p>It doesn't actually provide any value.<p>It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't already more readily available (and more useful) in other forms. There's this notion that people will carefully curate lists of things they care about, and it's true that they do, but only for a few days. There's no incentive to come back and maintain them because they aren't getting anything back out of it.<p>You can certainly say that I'm cynical and/or jaded from having built this and seen it first hand, but I think there's a reason why none of these sites ever stick. I don't believe it's due to them being built by bad engineers, or being implemented in a way that doesn't work, it's just that it's a feature and not a product.
You're using<p><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" ><p>Which means mobile devices will not zoom out to display the screen as it appears on a desktop, which is what you do when you're using a responsive design. But you aren't using a responsive design, so on a phone it appears only showing 320px of the page, rendering it unviewable and unusable.<p>Take that out OR implement a responsive design.<p>Sorry not to give feedback about the idea, I don't really have any, but fix that. It'll help ya out, especially while this is on HN.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but why would anyone ever use your site?<p>It's well designed and does a lot of the marketing, web-design-y stuff right, but I can't see any reason why I'd be motivated to start using your service.
I'm posting this first, will give a review of the product as a 2nd comment:<p>1. The dropdowns for registering birthdate are very unusable since I can't type in them. Trying to search for the year I was born by scrolling is hard. Can you use a standard HTML dropdown?<p>2. After registering I got redirected to:
<a href="http://www.listnerd.com/error/404" rel="nofollow">http://www.listnerd.com/error/404</a><p>but I had filled out a title to a list I wanted to create, I thought it would create that list once I was registered.<p>3. When I clicked "Create List" from the 404 page, it redirected me to the login page. I just registered so I assumed I would be logged in.<p>4. After I tried to login I get redirected to:
<a href="http://www.listnerd.com/?login=nserror" rel="nofollow">http://www.listnerd.com/?login=nserror</a><p>but since its a modal dialog I can barely read the error which shows up below it.<p>So it seems you may not have the non-social login/register side stuff completed but for obvious reasons I don't connect my networks to random sites :)
Here's the problem with crowdsourced lists:<p>100 Greatest presidents: #1 is Richard Nixon
<a href="http://www.listnerd.com/list/top-presidents-of-the-usa" rel="nofollow">http://www.listnerd.com/list/top-presidents-of-the-usa</a><p>You don't get serious lists. There's always trolls, or people that are uninformed adding their 2-cents.
I thought it was rad! I found value in some lists as well. I think you've got a lot of potential and hell, if you're about the experience and helping people discover, then keep rolling with it!<p>I must warn you though, I've been down a similar road relating to intention, all the while thinking in the back of my mind that I can somehow flip the switch and create monetary value. It didn't work like that.<p>If you're not being true to yourself with your motives for the sake of justifying where the project currently is, then take a step back and re-evaluate what you need to do to achieve your real motives/desires with the project. This is a personal suggestion stemming from my own experiences and is not meant to be offensive in anyway. Good luck!
Dude, absolutely love it. I've seen this a few times before but this one has huge potential. The product looks social. All it really needs is randomness".<p>Not sure what the word is, but best I can describe it is randomness. Link bait. Link cycle. Idk. Keep me going. I view one, okay. Don't make me hit back and type something else in. Take what I've seen already, suggest alternative content on the side, keep me clicking like YouTube does. Make me kill time before I even know what's happening.<p>Do that and you really have an amazing product. I could see myself wasting hours with stuff I'm interested in, just keep me going.
I think it's really hard to review it without understanding the goals of the project.<p>Are you trying to make money with it? Are you trying to grow it to 1M users? Are you trying to build a feature for Pinterest to buy?<p>You're getting a lot of different opinions here. Some are saying its a wonderful, social product with a lot of potential. Some are saying you aren't solving a real problem, which gives your project a fairly short shelf life.<p>It just depends on the goal, what do you hope to achieve with it? I've always had a hard time evaluating things without knowing this.
You've got some input sanitizing to do.<p><a href="http://www.listnerd.com/item/tse%3Cscript%3Ealert%283%29%3B%3Cscript%3E" rel="nofollow">http://www.listnerd.com/item/tse%3Cscript%3Ealert%283%29%3B%...</a>
I'm hacking together something very similar to this right now, actually...have you considered doing a Pinterest for lists? Instead of the user curation component, doing more of a "make lists for me that are public on my wall"? Like, "Countries I've been To," "Movies I Want to See," "2013 New Years' Resolutions." Etc.
Your site needs a 'Pleases & Sparkles' button.<p><a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155927/if-it-pleases-and-sparkles" rel="nofollow">http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155927/if-it-pleases-a...</a>
I like it.<p>Clicking on "Create New List", when I am not logged in, should ideally show the overlay without taking me to a different page. At least thats what I think.
stormen, send me an email and I'll give you some original ideas to implement. I'm starting to get depressed seeing a well designed, well coded (probably) yet another list aggregator, music service, social whatever.