Review my startup - E

Your app is simple enough that you don't need video -- you can show the same interaction in a list format with screenshots. This seems like more important stuff to show new visitors than "connect with anyone", etc.<p>But honestly, I think it's a terrible concept. (I don't like to say so, because I like entrepreneurs, and want to encourage you, but I also care about giving the best feedback I am able.) Business cards have an important function in the world, and they're very low-hassle relative to how useful they are. Meanwhile, they're very entrenched: the physical card is a strong social convention, and it's very hard to change that. I would not use this product because I suspect that many of the people I would meet would find it unprofessional.

Homepage looks absolutely stunning. I can see you do online business cards of some sort. Perhaps list features that distinguish you from Bump, Cardmunch, About.me even more?

I see business cards as a marketing tool, not a way to share contact information, so my immediate response was 'not for me'.<p>The video addressed this concern ("compatible with real business cards") which is the sign of a well thought out marketing video.

Can you PLEASE verify username before submit. 4 or 5 submits and re-entering captcha each time to get one that worked!

You might want to change the name to something that is not already the common name of an illegal drug. I assumed before clicking that your business was putting on raves or selling glowsticks or something.

That's a pretty ungoogleable name. "e business card" might be hard to optimize for.

This looks pretty cool, nice job on the UI. I don't really understand the name of your service but at least it wouldn't be hard to remember.<p>Are you guys planning on allowing users to customize their cards to match their actual business card?<p>Either way good luck taking on Bump, it's good to have a couple options in the marketplace.

I'm not sure if you support this or not, but it might be a good idea to include support for multiple cards per account. Something like a day job card and a startup card.<p>But I'm not sure how to support it on the backend.

I might use this, actually. I don't see why people are so crazy about physical business cards. I just lose them.<p>A bit of copy editing: "... hand out your contact information to whomever needs it." A lot of people make this mistake, but actually "whoever" is correct here. The case of the relative pronoun is governed by its role in the subordinate clause, not the main clause; the object of the preposition "to" is not the relative pronoun itself, but the entire clause "whoever needs it". "Whoever", being the subject of the verb "needs", is correctly in the nominative case.

Nice UI, but it's not immediately clear why this is better than Bump. (Which is not to say that Bump can't be improved on.)<p>Found a bug: if you have two phone numbers, only the first one shows up on the card.

Site looks great and I love the video. It would be nice to be able to collapse/close the video though.<p>Although I usually don't put much importance on startup names, "E" seems awkward. This is coming from someone that uses e (the text-editor) and whenever someone asks what editor I use, I say "e", look at a blank face, then reply "it's basically Textmate for Windows".

Very cool!<p>I thought of the exact same idea about 3 years ago. I didn't pursue it due to other circumstances (i.e. being far too busy), so I'm glad to see someone is taking it forward. I wish you the best of luck. The quality of the service and not to mention your website looks stunning. And that's what it takes to really make it!

Argh, HN munched my previous comment. Suggestions:<p>1. Displayed business card should also show QR code for others to scan in. 2. App could display QR code for others to download app instantly. 3. Not sure if it does already (I am on Android), but it would be cool if the emailed card had a link back to the app /site.

Looks like you guys have pivoted quite a bit since when I blogged about E in June 2008:<p><a href="http://paulstamatiou.com/thoughts-on-physical-social-networking" rel="nofollow">http://paulstamatiou.com/thoughts-on-physical-social-network...</a><p>Grats on the new angle!

My suggestion is that this link to the App Store should be at the top, not the bottom of the page (I had to look through on the page to figure page to figure out how to get the app)<p>Point being, letting me install the app on my device ASAP is critical

I love the design of your home page, the CTA and copywriting is spot on. The one thing I think you could do without is the "Get e on your phone". It's out of place and too big. If I want to download your app I'm just going to go to the app store.

I was just planning out my feature minimal ser forsomething just like this. Why email though? What if you want all people from your company to have a basic card format? Are you planning comany controls? Good luck.

Love the dropdown for the "see it in action" video.

Does it use vCard in any way?

So you found a way to let me print with an iPhone? I don't get it.

I do like the concept, and I also agree with the sentiments of others about how a physical biz card is an important tool.<p>I would suggest to make this better would be to make it a hell of a lot faster to receive cards;<p>Allow all the functionality you currently have (i.e. write something on the contact, add to contacts etc) -- but also allow you to push cards into a To-Be-Sorted bucket of a recipient.<p>THis would allow people to push their cards into the bucket of another in 15 seconds and walk away.<p>You dont want to bog down interactions with people for long as they are trying to share the card/contact and move on with their convo or move to other people.<p>I would also recommend the ability to have an event bucket/tag that anyone can see and let anyone push their card into that bucket.<p>For example - I go to a mixer "Cool things" and when I get there (gps recognizes I have arrived) my card shows up in the "cool things" mixer directory of people who have arrived/are there.<p>Then later - I can go back and look through the bucket and select the people I interacted with and grab their cards. I can do this after the fact when I have time and it wont interfere with the flow of any conversations.

I think a bar code scanner/OCR kind of functionality could also be useful.<p>If the other person does not have your app and isn't comfortable about sharing their email address, they can just photograph your card. Later they can download your app if interested and the app can use OCR or bar code scanning to identify the original e-card.