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Ask HN: My Minimum viable mobile Site
Here is my minimum viable mobile site, it's in Beta and should be live in a couple of weeks without the payment barriers as I'll use an advertising and sponsor Business model. I'll appreciate your feedback.
(nota bene: you will obtain a better rebdering if you browse it from a webkit browser if done from a desktop)
- pclark 16y ago...
- megamark16 16y agoI clicked around for a minute and couldn't really figure out what the point of this sites is. Please enlighten me as to what this thing is for.
- buro9 16y agoSeems to be a cookie cutter of RSS feeds with a basic voting interface. I think the idea is to consume many RSS feeds easily and to have them ranked by some kind of importance indicator so that influential feeds go to the top and as a result you discover hot stories first. At least, that's what I think it is supposed to be. A Google Reader for mobile, but stripped down and given community voting and an iPhone interface. I don't like it much, but mostly it's because: 1) There's still a hell of a lot of feeds to navigate. 2) You still have to jump out to read any article. 3) The voting interface seems clunky. Oh, and some of the feed links are broken.
- Concours 16y agoThanks for the great feedback buro9 , I couldn't explain it better than that. there's still lot of feeds indeed, actually much more than what you can see now, but they are organize in categories, so you just choose what you really like. The healthcare category has more than 1326 Blogs listed there, and those blogs are the most relevant blogs in their areas, the Advertising category has 1500+ Blogs The search can help you find what you are looking for. *The voting interface looks clunky indeed , I'm working on it as well as the broken links. Now some additional features: 1) any publisher can submit his feeds here: http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite
- Concours 16y agoHi megamark16, the site is mostly what buro9 said, and if you are a blogger, you can easily port your content to mobile devices from here: http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite . And with the site, you can read the latest news from your mobile phone.
- petervandijck 16y agoI wasn't crazy about it either. Either you're a feedreader, in which case don't pre-populate it with feeds, instead let me susbscribe to feeds; or you're more of a curated aggregator, in which case don't focus so much on the feeds, just show the content. In either case, this is going to be a hard market to be in. First case, you compete with googlereader etc, second case, you're just another content aggregator. The voting can make a difference, but it needs to be better explained. Also, there's too much navigating. It takes me a few clicks to get any content. Compare with the HN homepage: best content is right there. Good luck :)
- Concours 16y agoThanks Peter for the great feedback, it's more a curated aggregator, and the voting is still in pre-alfa, I will make it a bit clearer on the next release,maybe more text to explain and make it obvious, or just try to figure out, how to do it like on HN, probably the best thing to do. Thanks.
- JangoSteve 16y agoI don't get it. GMBH News? McSquare? What is it called? There's no "About" link to tell me what it is either. Feed reader for mobile is in the "title" attribute. But don't iPhones and Android phones have feed-reader apps? Is it just targeted at other mobile devices?
- JangoSteve 16y agoAnyone care to explain this downvote? These are very valid questions that would greatly help the original poster sell their vision if answered.