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First of all, thank you for proving an example page, a privacy policy and a terms of service page. You'd be amazed how many "Rate my startup" posts I complete i

First of all, thank you for proving an example page, a privacy policy and a terms of service page. You'd be amazed how many "Rate my startup" posts I complete ignore because they lack these simple basics. If you are going to request personal information, you need to have a policy for it. There's a lot I wish was different in the design (the chat could certainly be a lot better), but I love how easy it was to set up. I do wish you asked for the password twice though, I always get nervous that I'll make a typo and never be able to get back in.

sw1205 16y ago
Can easily implement the password change. How would you like to see chat implemented? More along the Facebook lines? Thanks for creating a network, is it something you could see yourself using?
- DanielStraight 16y ago
  I would love to see chat be a shameless ripoff of StackOverflow. I'd also rather see it directly integrated on the main page for the network, possibly stacking posts and files vertically so chat can have space. File uploading could stand to be integrated in the main page too. Voting on posts seems somewhat strange (also strange that it isn't integrated in the main page), but I may have different use cases in mind than you do. In fact, that would be a good thing to point out on the site, what do you have in mind for possible use cases? My idea is that this would be shared by people who know each other in real life. Voting on a friend's contribution seems strange. Another really cool feature would be the ability to share a network with simply a private URL, no need for other members to sign up if they don't want to. Each user can get their own private URL which ties them back to the email address they were invited on so you know who's who. If you ever want to talk in more detail about this (like after the HN story falls into obscurity), feel free to contact me at the email address cryptically listed in my profile.
  - sw1205 16y ago
    We are still in Alpha and so there is a lot of things we want to still do but for now we had a minimum viable product and hope to keep developing it. We wanted to allow people to vote, just like they can on here, in case they wanted to create networks on their passions. I have a football network with my mates and we find the voting works really well. Interesting links are at the top and boring links find their way to the bottom. We also want people to be able to chat and post/vote from the home view but for now we wanted to launch the site and then iterate afterwards. This will take place though. With regard to stackoverflow - we will take a look. Chat is quite primitive at the moment but again something we hope to improve.
Stuk 16y ago
> thank you for proving an example page Yes, this is great, but I only found it after reading this reply. I think it would help if you made the link more prominent.
- sw1205 16y ago
  Yes, it was even more buried before the start of the day and we moved it to what we hoped was a more prominent position today! We will make it more prominent, thanks for the feedback
- koreyb 16y ago
  Agreed, within 10 seconds I don't understand what the value is. If there were an example/screenshot/video explaining things I would be more willing to stay and check it out as a potential user.

sw1205 16y ago

Can easily implement the password change. How would you like to see chat implemented? More along the Facebook lines? Thanks for creating a network, is it something you could see yourself using?

DanielStraight 16y ago
I would love to see chat be a shameless ripoff of StackOverflow. I'd also rather see it directly integrated on the main page for the network, possibly stacking posts and files vertically so chat can have space. File uploading could stand to be integrated in the main page too. Voting on posts seems somewhat strange (also strange that it isn't integrated in the main page), but I may have different use cases in mind than you do. In fact, that would be a good thing to point out on the site, what do you have in mind for possible use cases? My idea is that this would be shared by people who know each other in real life. Voting on a friend's contribution seems strange. Another really cool feature would be the ability to share a network with simply a private URL, no need for other members to sign up if they don't want to. Each user can get their own private URL which ties them back to the email address they were invited on so you know who's who. If you ever want to talk in more detail about this (like after the HN story falls into obscurity), feel free to contact me at the email address cryptically listed in my profile.
- sw1205 16y ago
  We are still in Alpha and so there is a lot of things we want to still do but for now we had a minimum viable product and hope to keep developing it. We wanted to allow people to vote, just like they can on here, in case they wanted to create networks on their passions. I have a football network with my mates and we find the voting works really well. Interesting links are at the top and boring links find their way to the bottom. We also want people to be able to chat and post/vote from the home view but for now we wanted to launch the site and then iterate afterwards. This will take place though. With regard to stackoverflow - we will take a look. Chat is quite primitive at the moment but again something we hope to improve.

Stuk 16y ago

> thank you for proving an example page Yes, this is great, but I only found it after reading this reply. I think it would help if you made the link more prominent.

sw1205 16y ago
Yes, it was even more buried before the start of the day and we moved it to what we hoped was a more prominent position today! We will make it more prominent, thanks for the feedback
koreyb 16y ago
Agreed, within 10 seconds I don't understand what the value is. If there were an example/screenshot/video explaining things I would be more willing to stay and check it out as a potential user.