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Pretty neat idea, and I commend you guys for going up against Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter who are sure to provide the exact same functionality at
by marknutter 16y ago
Pretty neat idea, and I commend you guys for going up against Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter who are sure to provide the exact same functionality at some point.
A few things I noticed right away:
1. I can't tell what city you're servicing right away, I had to search for the tiny address at the bottom of your homepage (NY I take it). You should make it very obvious where you're targeting right now. Maybe put the address in the hero section where you have the other event details, and perhaps provide an embedded google map too.
2. This is a minor design issue, but your main logo pushes your hero section down almost 200px. I would tighten things up a bit, but that's just me.
3. Design again: get a good designer to help you with your typography. If you're DIYing your design, look into grid systems, your alignments are headache inducing.
Where is your revenue coming from? Are the venues paying a fee for the potential of foot traffic?
Also, what would stop me from creating a similar service which simply queried Foursqure, Twitter, Facebook, Gowalla, etc. for location info and providing deals based on how many people checked in? It would essentially just be a deals site that functions on check-in services: you advertise a deal, you negotiate with the venue, and all people need to do is show that they checked in with one of those services.
Good work so far, though!
- jsm386 16y ago1. Thanks...we are getting people from all over the country (and world) registering...so we should make that clearer. 2/3. Design is a work in progress and yes it is done by ourselves. We have a new release of the index coming soon. Well aware of grid concept so will see what we can do about that. Revenue is from venues for verified check-ins (GPS). As to a similar service, nothing stops you or anyone else. The notion of culling check-ins goes against what we are selling the business on, which is bring in new people, not people who are going already and checking in. It would essentially just be a deals site that functions on check-in services That really is what we are. We are platform agnostic...just started with checking you into foursquare if you like automatically because it is most popular in NYC. We
- marknutter 16y agoSounds great! Good luck, guys!