For those who saw this, ignored it or didn't find why it might be compelling, check out the founders profile on Jizie.
<a href="http://www.jizie.com/users/rbatista" rel="nofollow">http://www.jizie.com/users/rbatista</a><p>Richard! Put that link on your homepage. Show people what they'll see using the site.
Goddamnit man! It's beautiful!<p>I still have no idea why I'd use it, but at least now I can see the quality of build you can put out. This is the stuff that gets people interested.<p>Re-do your homepage. Put a big link that shows people what their profile would look like. Or put the profile up somewhere.<p>From your homepage, I had no idea if after creating an account I'd just be sent to a 'coming' soon link or something, because you never said what it did.<p>The thing you should be putting into your homepage (some of which you can take as a lesson in marketing), 'show your work, don't just talk about it'.<p>Also, I found a bit of a bug. Clicking on one of your links in your portfolio, results in an image that is stretched, but then clicking the back button fixes it.
Did you consider the implication of creating a professional network and calling it 'Jizie'? You've got huge mountains ahead of you, I think you should reconsider the name.<p>The landing page is nice, but you haven't given me a compelling reason to give it a go, and you haven't made it easy for me to join.<p>Have you considered starting with a niche? Some friends started theloop.com.au, which is a LinkedIn for creatives, and they've been quite successful with it.<p>When LinkedIn started, it was so early, that I suspect they were targetting IT people, and they grew from there.<p>I think in order to get any traction, you'll at the VERY least need to tell people what they are signing up for. You haven't done that at all on your homepage.
"The only professional network with a VOICE" means nothing to me.
Everything pedalpete[0] said, and a few more things. It's hard to say some of this without sounding condescending - it isn't. Please take it at face value.<p>You need to spell and grammar check your work. I applaud what you've done, and you've clearly worked hard in difficult circumstances and have done well. I will spell and grammar check up to 1000 words for you for free, just to help, no obligation.<p>I also didn't know why I should give you my email address, and I nearly just closed without looking further. I saw the "About" link only at the last moment - you need to give me more.<p>Good luck.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037218" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037218</a>