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Launched My First Startup
- kajeet 6y agoI have started Contentbyd which is a platform where you can get great content at an affordable price. I have just started, so I am ready to take feedback. Also currently giving a 20% discount. Thank you!
- adamfaliq 6y agoTypo: > Recieve. > Get your content directly on your mail, or we can post it for you on your blog.
- cxcorp 6y agoHow do you pronounce Contentbyd? Is it like contentbid? Or like contentbud?
- cebert 6y agoThere are several grammatical and spelling errors on this site. I would be quite skeptical utilizing any services offered here.
- kajeet 6y agoYou can check the samples to estimate the quality.
- derision 6y agoRegardless of samples, obvious typos are a sign of lack of regard for quality
- DizzyDoo 6y agoWhat cebert is saying, and what I absolutely agree with, is that if the copy on the website itself contains bad or clumsy English, then I'm not going to explore the samples themselves. I have to perform a few double-takes as I read the site to try and parse the meaning out. I did duck into the samples themselves, and it's much the same there as well.
- 55555 6y agoAre you serious? Why on earth would anyone pay a content factory which has terrible grammar on their home page? And this is a poor response too. But good luck on your first business. The good thing is you always profit: either in money or in knowledge on how to do a better job next time.
- kajeet 6y agoI understand your point. And I also admit my mistake. I didn't want to ignore this, that is why I am answering... After the website is created, I have written some content in it and I don't write, so it may be my fault, that's why I asked you to check the sample as it has been written by our writers. Hope you understand!
- mosselman 6y agoWhat does it do? What is 'getting content'?
- nvr219 6y agoCongratulations and good luck my friend!!
- kajeet 6y agoThank you!
- lukevp 6y agoGood luck! As others said, few typos and I’d suggest having someone else review the copy on the site. For example, this is the first thing I read, and it does not feel like natural English. > Update the blogs and content on the website right away and notice the output. Why not something like “Bid on and acquire expert-curated content for your blog or website in 5 minutes or less” Also, this should have a Show HN tag since you self posted it.
- burlesona 6y agoCame here to post the same. I think this site will struggle in selling written content when it does not feel like it was written in “native” English. Unless this is aimed at a different primary geography (not UK/US/CA/AU/NZ), in which case maybe that needs to be front and center?
- kajeet 6y agoThanks for such a great advice.
- 3Scribe 6y ago> Thanks for such a great advice. Yup, that's what he's talking about. The market I assume you're going for is native English speaking so you should really get native English speakers to look over your website.
- _benj 6y agoCongratulations and good luck! You have gone beyond the all of those "wanna be" (including myself) and put yourself out there and for this I commend you! I love the design, didn't really sent a lot of time reading the copy but by the design I got the impression of "this looks like something I can trust" as opposed to "this looks like some random dude wrote made something and now want my money for it..." :D
- kajeet 6y agoThank you for such nice words :-)
- TooCreative 6y agoA content writer makes a WordPress site about their offerings. Posts the link to Hacker News with the title "Launched My First Startup". Hits the front page. Fabulous. Especially since the English on that site is on the brink of nonsense. Is it is machine-translated from another language? Anyhow. I am flagging this. I am not sure how it got on the frontpage. But that it did is a sign that something is wrong here.
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- kajeet 6y agoDo flag! No matter how hard someone has worked, but by just thinking and guessing you will take action. You are doing a great job :-)
- t0mbstone 6y agoFlagged for being an obvious self advertisement instead of an article worthy of being "hacker news"
- arjunvpaul 6y agoFirst of all, good job on launching! Hopefully you inspire many others here to take that all-important step. Not a native english speaker. So take my advice with a grain of salt. Not sure if you actually meant "eccentric". I initially thought you were addressing a niche segment of folks who wanted eccentric (slightly strange) content on their blogs just to spice things up. For example content like this - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/utility-pole-surfaces https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/utility-pole-surfaces would fit the description of content I would describe as "eccentric and delightful" content. If that's not what you meant, you can re-evaluate that main tagline. Maybe put that line "Get Premium content on a budget" front and center. That's a great line! Don't worry too much about getting the grammar right. Focus on putting it out in front of many people as possible. (like you have done here on Hacker News) Bracket feedback into 2 segments: 1. Feedback from paying customers. 2. Feedback from others. Address the feedback from group 1 first.
- thunderbong 6y agoIf you're saying you're going to be providing content for website and blogs for others, your own content should be top notch. Currently, I don't get any confidence from your site that you can provide that. There are too many grammatical errors, wrong phrasing and incorrect usage of even basic English. And like others have mentioned, I'm appalled that this is on the front page.