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Ask HN: Rate my startup: beepl.com
At this stage, it's only a prototype running on a single 0.5GB server instance. Be gentle. :-)
Thanks for the feedback!
Bonus wallpaper on http://twitpic.com/xyyd0
- daniel-cussen 17y agoPretty sweet, but I can't use the registration.
- jparicka 17y agoOuch .. now that is a problem. I will have a look.
- jparicka 17y agoCan you refresh or something? It did create your account.. :-(
- daniel-cussen 17y agoSure, I'll try that.
- JacobAldridge 17y agoWhat's the purpose? At a quick glance, it's still got a lot of testing bugs showing publicly: 1) Your question Test is top of the front page 2) Top Members are "ad sd asd dasda" etc 3) The top links (including 'About Beepl', which would have answered my original question) still have the template # link in them 4) Some of the questions appear to have been overrun by spam (note the Star Trek question) 5) Also worth noting that I did know "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", but only because I'd seen it before. Congrats on putting it out there. I look forward to learning more. Edit: Here's the direct link to the front page - http://www.beepl.com/ http://www.beepl.com/ Unfortunately, the text here doesn't really explain what it does either, and the only options I have are either emailing you (not likely) or registering (also unlikely, for a website I don't know when it's not clear what it does). It seems to be suffering from the same issues as your last Rate my Startup - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612319 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612319 - mainly too much marketing speak, and not enough demonstration of the problem it solves.
- karam 17y agoThe design's pretty cool.
- jparicka 17y agoBeepl's functionality - reply, answer, "more" and "more like these" are making this flowless experience. We really hoped to come up with something new. Try it out and let me know.
- ismarc 17y agoOk, so, I took a quick look and the only thing that works is if you click on a question from the page you link to, you are brought to a page with stuff on it. This looks like a non-functioning, reskinned Yahoo! Answers, that may at some point start charging people to find someone to answer the question. Is this the intent? Is there some deeper thing that I've missed here?
- jparicka 17y agoIt's actually all about that "stuff" beepl populates back to questions. Have you tried "more like this"? And it is very much functional - I am aware only about the registration problem. Seems to be working for some, not for the others - no idea where the problem is. Anyway, it's about the results - we match these semantically. I really hoped one would notice - at least wikipedia references, or question auto-categorization, if nothing else... Thanks for the feedback - very valuable. Yes, we still seem to have a lot to do - and yes, we do consider Yahoo! Answers evil. Thank you.
- jparicka 17y agoPS - we won't start charging people. We recommend and sell shit from Amazon.
- jparicka 17y agologin: test, passwd: test ..for those having problems with the registration.
- minalecs 17y agoI don't know , maybe its because I jumped in late, but I click on to answer and all I see are a bunch of ads. bad taste IMO
- jparicka 17y agoThere are zero adverts. These are feeds - picasa, amazon, digg, youtube, wikipedia, even yahoo answers, etc. Did you not notice that? There's a sample of almost 800 questions to see how well this works.. Try to click on "more like this", just try..
- jparicka 17y agoBonus: http://twitpic.com/xyyd0 http://twitpic.com/xyyd0
- jparicka 17y agoThanks for the feedback folks. I will rethink few things on beepl. Cheers!