I came from a PHP background, and I've decided to jump ship to rails.<p>https://www.bucketlistly.com is the result of 2 months of learning by doing.<p>What do you think of the app? Would love to hear all of your feedback.<p>Feel free to sign up for beta, I'll send an invite to all of you.
It's got a very strong design which you executed well. It's quite polished. The rails part is hard to comment on because we can't see your code - but from the url structure, it looks like it worked well for you.<p>Having said that, I'm not really a fan of the design overall because I find it distracting from the actual content. IMO, effective design should help to focus the user's attention on the content, not be part of the focus in and of itself. I'm just not a fan of overly skeuomorphic designs in general for that reason.<p>The Tips & Tricks animation on the sidebar is also very distracting.<p>That scripty font renders very thin and isn't very readable for me on chome-stable Win7: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/FC5oE.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/FC5oE.jpg</a>
Make the "sign in with facebook text" be "facebook sign in". The text is too big and it seems that both the facebook and the "get an invitation buttons" have to be of the same size in order to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye.<p>Anyways, you did a pretty good job. Awesome.
Looks really hot. Seems like you've done a lot of work on it.<p>I can't use it though, since I need an invitation for it. A big turnoff for me.<p>You should also make your title into a link, otherwise nobody is gonna upvote your post.
Why is Facebook always the first auth system implemented in start up apps, OpenID is so much more simple to get running and will open you up to many different providers with very little coding. Is it just for the data mining?
i like the site design and the javascript scroller is pretty neat.. i think your images load a bit slowly however, which i think means you could probably benefit from serving your assets, i.e. images and such, via a cdn (like cloudfront). all in all, good work, it looks like something to be proud of, which is always great!