Show HN: Storylane - People sharing things that matter

Fantastic!<p>What the hell does it do? I'm not signing up without knowing a single thing about this service.

Amazing design. But if I'm totally honest, it just looks like a blogging platform. I can't tell what's unique about it.

1) Make that ol' fashioned signup link just a little more obvious... 2) Could the two welcome emails be combined (can't the activation link come as part of the second if the subject line makes it clear)? 3) I couldn't help but laugh when "What are your best memories of graduate school? Worst memories?" came up as a prompt under "Life". There's something amusing about this question being posed so innocently after "Did you have a pet?".<p>Anyway I think the site is actually pretty fun, and I'm glad I signed up despite not being able to tell what it was just from the homepage (might want to change that). I was just about to go to bed and jot down a few things I wanted to write about the coming morning but after poking around I may just spend some more time poking around with some of the topics here.

Recommendation to the founders: Change the flow:<p>1. Story writing. As a guest, let me write my story right away. Give a few story ideas.<p>2. Sign up. Make it optional. Tell me I can share my story anonymously but if I want to keep it forever, allow me to sign up then.

Nice design and concept. I could see myself using this, no doubt.<p>That said, I have some suggestions:<p>- Let me remove stories I don't like. Bonus points if:<p>-- I can drag them out to remove them (it was my first instinct, and I think it'd work well)<p>-- The system learns from that, after some time.<p>- Please, let the "bar" stay fixed. It's only distracting when I'm reading a story or enjoying a photo.<p>- Let me read more of a story in-place, by expanding the "card" (downward?).<p>Good work, and I'll be looking forward to what you build from here.

With no info at all it feels like a dare.

Please, this is how you execute this idea......<a href="http://cowbird.com" rel="nofollow">http://cowbird.com</a>. I did not sign up because i have no idea what the product does and the alternate to Facebook login blends into the background and is hard to notice.

Some of those stories are pretty intense Ex: Nick Slater (Palantir's designer in Palo Alto) <a href="http://www.storylane.com/nickslater" rel="nofollow">http://www.storylane.com/nickslater</a>

It would be nice to see an OpenID login.

Your logo is similar to: <a href="http://codegram.com/" rel="nofollow">http://codegram.com/</a>

This sound like g+ - ppl sharing things that matter to me.

On your fb tag line you have padding that ruins your y's.

whoa, this site is looking good! love the use of subtlepatterns and conservative use of gradients on the buttons. who designed this?

looks like a clone of <a href="http://www.remenis.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.remenis.com/</a>

How do you compete with subreddit?