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Ask HN: Should we kill our site?

5 点作者 JoshKalkbrenner大约 14 年前
Back in April, we asked the HN community for feedback. We received great advice and have since enhanced/modified our site per the feedback. However, we're now at the cross roads of Continue or Kill it.<p>So here's our situation:<p>Initially, we wanted a way to quickly and anonymously voice our (infamous bank) frustrations. There's alway the fake twitter account, but we enjoy coding so we spent a few hours one night, and the next morning we launched MyBankSux.com. It received a few complaints, so we added banks in other countries to see whether anyone else would use it.<p>We received 80 + complaints in the past month, so no traction, and now that the 1 month mark has passed - we need to choose whether to invest additional time or simply leave it as is.<p>If we choose to invest additional time, we want to create the easiest way to submit a bank complaint. We want the user to simply pull up the application (mobile), click submit, and have the banks' customer service contact them; no more hold, nor need to find the customer service number. In addition, we want to keep track of resolution so consumers can quickly identify banks that provide stellar customer service.<p>Much like Gri.pe pulls up a list of local entities, we want MyBankSux to pull up a list of local banks or allow you to enter by name. Unlike Gri.pe, we don't want everyone to see our names when we have a complaint; like showing your friends who bitches the most. Although Twitter is great for bitching, not all banks are on twitter, and identifying the handle of those that are on twitter is difficult; for most banks.<p>So, I ask... what are your thoughts? Should we kill it, or should we continue. If continue, what should we tackle first?<p>Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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ScottWhigham大约 14 年前
Kudos to you for trying to either fail fast or succeed.<p>I would argue that you should kill in no small part b/c the domain name is so childish. What adult would visit a site called "My Bank Sux"? None that I know of.<p>I'm not trying to be rude or disrespectful - you asked for feedback so here it is - so please take this in the spirit you asked for it. That was a huge decision (the name of your company) and you got it incredibly wrong IMO. And you got it so wrong that it makes me wonder what other decisions you got wrong as well. I'm not trying to be a dream killer but you will look back on this 10 years from now and think, "What were we thinking? That was an awful name!"<p>Lastly the whole concept of a complaint-based site is so... strange to me. Why would anyone ever visit your site except to make a complaint? Are you expecting people to just drop by and read the complaints/comments? I can't imagine that anyone would want to just read complaints and resolutions.<p>Lastly, even if you got traction from submitters, how do you make money? You want to "create the easiest way to submit a bank complaint" which means you'll need to minimize page time and page views to do so. It also means you can't serve ads on those pages, right? That would totally break the UI and possibly your trust with your user. The only time you can serve ads is on the post-submission pages or through email. Seems a hard way to make money IMO considering that those people will not be back to your site again until the bank responds (and that's iffy). Also, any response from a bank will be to take this off of the forum/site and will end with, "Please call us at ..." which totally takes any future revenue away from you.<p>Kill it.
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JoshKalkbrenner大约 14 年前
Additional (Business) Details on Flippa: <a href="http://bit.ly/mSx5WT" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/mSx5WT</a><p>BTW -- We don't expect anyone to bid. We use Flippa to market our business concepts, and get feedback.
JoshKalkbrenner大约 14 年前
Any critiques are welcomed :) <a href="https://www.MyBankSux.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.MyBankSux.com</a>
JoshKalkbrenner大约 14 年前
Clickable: <a href="https://www.MyBankSux.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.MyBankSux.com</a>
petervandijck大约 14 年前
Kill it.
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