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This might sound harsh but I hope it's useful. The landing page is terrible. Before I can make head or tail of what this site is, you are telling me I've been
by revorad 16y ago
This might sound harsh but I hope it's useful.
The landing page is terrible. Before I can make head or tail of what this site is, you are telling me I've been logged in as a temporary user, I might lose my data yada yada. What data? What are you talking about? Do you mind introducing your site first?
You need a simple one-liner describing what or who your site is for.
Next, please don't use plain text links for films. Movie posters exist for a reason. You need images asap. Engagement will shoot up. The same goes for users.
Why are you hiding your rate buttons? You know hover doesn't work on touch devices, right? Even when they are visible, they are too faint. And too complicated. Don't make people think if a film is 1 to 5. Everyone's now used to Like or Dislike. Just keep it simple.
Lastly, on a meta level, when you are looking for advice on your app or startup, you should always first search HN for advice given to other people with similar ideas. For example, a quick search for your case brought these up:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253574 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253574 for http://www.subzin.com/ http://www.subzin.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=519649 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=519649 for http://www.greatmovieexperiment.com/ http://www.greatmovieexperiment.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767309 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1767309 for http://watchth.is/ http://watchth.is/
Good luck!
- drx 16y agoThanks for the feedback, it's indeed useful and not really harsh. The one-liner used to be there, but I removed it, forgetting that not everyone knows what it is. See, this is why getting feedback from strangers rocks. I need to definitely do something for touch devices somewhere along the way. I like the way they hide right now because it makes the site much less cluttered. I might experiment with this though. One thing I will fight until the bitter end is the Like/Dislike thing. I'm using the site personally as a catalog of things I've seen in my life, having just Like/Dislike would feel wrong (Pulp Fiction and Valkyrie hardly deserve the same rating). I might make the scale optional (for "power users") or something. In any case, thanks!
- revorad 16y agoOk, then at least make it more interesting. How about Love, Like, Meh, Hate?