Hi Everyone,<p>Longtime daily readers of HN and occasional commenters here. We’d really love your feedback on our new offering.<p>Briefly: Friendbuy has developed a sharing platform (think mailchimp for sharing). Features include customizing share widgets and share buttons, sharing analytics, social analytics and the ability to optimize results.<p>http://www.friendbuy.com<p>Access to the platform has been limited to select partners we’ve quietly brought on board - large ecommerce and smaller buzz-worthy companies from Kickstarter like Bikegotham.com and Blank Label.<p>So far the feedback from our partners has been great. Now we’re launching an open, self-service platform to the public. And that means the product has to speak for itself.<p>So we’re seeking feedback from the HN community because, well, you’ll be honest with us. Access is free (no credit card required) to start playing with the tools.<p>If you want to use the platform after checking it out and providing feedback, you can use the HN promo code hn201206-a9s8df which gives you 50% off your first three months. You will enter the promo code in the form when you activate a sharing campaign and it's good until 08/01/2012.<p>We’d really appreciate any opinions along the following lines, they would be extremely valued by the team as we try to improve market positioning and usability.<p>1) Clear value proposition?
2) Clear about our features and benefits?
3) Usability: can you set up a sharing campaign quickly, is the campaign creation path easy to follow?
4) Help section: Clear instructions for integration<p>Please send feedback and/or questions to support@friendbuy.com<p>Thanks!<p>Manish, Dave and Tony
Clickable: <a href="http://www.friendbuy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.friendbuy.com</a><p>From reading your text here and your site I don't understand what you do. What is "supercharging social sharing." Does that mean I can easily reach more people? Why do I need a template? What kind, if any, tracking is available? Does it track when I post something to Twitter, Facebook, etc?<p>I think you would benefit greatly from some use cases or at least some screen shots.
To offer a different perspective, I disagree with jnorthrop and think your value proposition is clear - you're helping companies encourage customers to share purchases and provide metrics of how that sharing affects the bottom line.<p>I like the idea and think it's clever.