I don't consider myself experienced enough to give anybody advice on startups, but it seems to me that programmers should pick up non-CS skill-sets. That way, two things may happen.
- Your startup won't be a clone of about 500 other startups.
- You will be solving real-world problems for sectors who don't receive the attention of most programmers.<p>In other words, follow Octopart's lead.<p>I know this wasn't a review of your startup, I just don't think this survey idea has any viability anymore.
Cant help feel the name was created by a programmer. Outside of the computer world. Are there examples using "foo"?<p>The UI looks a little bit copied from elsewhere on the net.<p>I like the idea of being able to create a quick poll and let it loose. Not sure if there is away to let it loose on the twitterspehre.<p>Am I correct in thinking you mine ( to a degree ) the realtime statements on twitter to help populate your thoughts or to just sound cool.<p>A major positive, I like you are trying to make money from the get go. ( Even if it is a little hidden = faq )<p>As always and most unlikely, would be curious to know if anyone has bitten and has paid to use it. You could benefit from a demo, or a reasons why paying $1 is worth it for a poll. That kinda stuff.
<i>What does the world think? Survey your friends, colleagues, customers and millions of Twitter users!</i><p>Sounds like a sales pitch, not a slogan. It's also too long. Just a thought.<p>Simply 'What does the world think?' might be better.
It's a survey site... it seems to imply that I have to pay people to take my surveys/will get paid to take surveys... but the site gives absolutely no details on how this is supposed to work, or why I might want to do it (the FAQ answers <i>what</i>, not <i>how</i> or <i>why</i>).<p>The word <i>Twitter</i> also appears a lot, and I can't tell what connection this has to it. Do you have permission to use Twitterific's logo like that? Or even Apple's Mail logo?
I filled in 'test' for name and got the message: "Name already used with a different email address!" and the results were shown.<p>Did I vote, or do I have to change the name and try again? What if it was my real name that is already used?