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Review my Startup: Brainstorm Ideas and Find a Cofounder

1 points by yankoff 16y ago

mcrittenden 16y ago
A couple points - The idea is great, and something I think a lot of people would find useful. - The UI in general needs a lot of work. I'll point out a few things that could be quick fixes, but I think you'd really really benefit from paying a good UI designer to rework it. - The "City" dropdown on registration was confusing for me since I don't live in any of the cities listed and almost didn't see the "Select another city" option. Might be better off with a text field and possibly autocomplete. - Even though I said I'm looking for a mentor on registration, on the next page, none of the "Looking For" checkboxes were checked. I get that that was probably intended since that's a search, but it still confused me. - You might want to change the Thank You For Registration message to Thank You For Registering. - This is what my Location dropdown looks like: http://i.imgur.com/CjHqb.png http://i.imgur.com/CjHqb.png even though I don't live in California...not sure why that's on the list. - The "Please Complete Your Profile" box in the sidebar doesn't look like a link even though it is. - IMO it could do without the Microblog/Following sections...people are still going to use Twitter for that, and I think it just adds confusion to the backend to see that included. The other alternative is just to have it integrate with Twitter, so that if you follow someone, you're really following their twitter user and yafounder is just providing an alternative interface, but even that is IMO unnecessary. - It could really benefit from some sort of tour/wizard to help navigate the backend. There are a lot of links and it's not immediately apparent what most of them do. Great idea! Hope it takes off for you.
- Udo 16y ago
  I mostly agree, though I wouldn't stray far from the current "design", just streamline it a bit. The biggest issue would be usability: I didn't like the tedious way it made me choose my city. Also, very minor thing, but it was annoying to input my basic data twice in a row: Just one page before I already told Yafounder who I was and what I was looking for - it should really copy these fields into my search criteria.
  - yankoff 16y ago
    Good idea, thanks. Will fix that
- yankoff 16y ago
  Thank you for your feedback! UI definitely needs some improvements, I'm not a designer myself so I've just tried to do it more or less neat. I will look into other things like location choosing to make it more clear.

1 points by yankoff 16y ago

A couple points - The idea is great, and something I think a lot of people would find useful. - The UI in general needs a lot of work. I'll point out a few things that could be quick fixes, but I think you'd really really benefit from paying a good UI designer to rework it. - The "City" dropdown on registration was confusing for me since I don't live in any of the cities listed and almost didn't see the "Select another city" option. Might be better off with a text field and possibly autocomplete. - Even though I said I'm looking for a mentor on registration, on the next page, none of the "Looking For" checkboxes were checked. I get that that was probably intended since that's a search, but it still confused me. - You might want to change the Thank You For Registration message to Thank You For Registering. - This is what my Location dropdown looks like: http://i.imgur.com/CjHqb.png http://i.imgur.com/CjHqb.png even though I don't live in California...not sure why that's on the list. - The "Please Complete Your Profile" box in the sidebar doesn't look like a link even though it is. - IMO it could do without the Microblog/Following sections...people are still going to use Twitter for that, and I think it just adds confusion to the backend to see that included. The other alternative is just to have it integrate with Twitter, so that if you follow someone, you're really following their twitter user and yafounder is just providing an alternative interface, but even that is IMO unnecessary. - It could really benefit from some sort of tour/wizard to help navigate the backend. There are a lot of links and it's not immediately apparent what most of them do. Great idea! Hope it takes off for you.

Udo 16y ago
I mostly agree, though I wouldn't stray far from the current "design", just streamline it a bit. The biggest issue would be usability: I didn't like the tedious way it made me choose my city. Also, very minor thing, but it was annoying to input my basic data twice in a row: Just one page before I already told Yafounder who I was and what I was looking for - it should really copy these fields into my search criteria.
- yankoff 16y ago
  Good idea, thanks. Will fix that
yankoff 16y ago
Thank you for your feedback! UI definitely needs some improvements, I'm not a designer myself so I've just tried to do it more or less neat. I will look into other things like location choosing to make it more clear.