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Cool idea guys, but poor execution. Here is some free* advice: -The design on your website is terrible. You need to fix this immediately. This just looks li
by blhack 15y ago
Cool idea guys, but poor execution. Here is some free* advice:
-The design on your website is terrible. You need to fix this immediately. This just looks like a tumblr post, or a twitter stream or something. Actually, it looks like a "The Oatmeal" comic. It's unbecoming. Go look at the design of companies that do stuff like this, evaluate why they do these things, and why you should too.
-Drop the "look how hip we are" photos. You get to post photos like that when you're talking about launching your next multi-million-dollar company, not when you're offering to work for free.
-Post some examples of stuff that you've designed. Post examples of times you've worked with payment processors and dealt with potentially multi-millions-of-dollars worth of transactions.
-Post some examples of stuff you've built that has been at the scale we're talking here. Vaguely alluding to your friend embarrassing himself in front of Mark Zuckerberg isnt' really a good example of why your service isn't going to come grinding to a halt when it gets some traffic.
*And now about that astericks. If you do any of the things I listed here, please give me a portion of the money you make in the future. Here is how to get ahold of me: http://thingist.com/users/Ryan http://thingist.com/users/Ryan
edit: guys. This: https://twitter.com/#!/RossRobinson/status/170261820915978240 https://twitter.com/#!/RossRobinson/status/17026182091597824...
Several times a day for a week?
Not okay. Give it a rest. At this point I'm sure he's seen it and is probably annoyed with you.
edit2: I found the site that you're trying to launch: http://launch.matinee.io/ http://launch.matinee.io/
You'd probably be better served to host this there. Now it looks like you're trying to start offering this as a service to a lot of people, and you want Jim Gaffigan to be the first.
That's cool, and that sounds a lot better than "We're two guys who like to drink beer and play in the snow. Trust us with your millions"
- bobbles 15y agoConsidering how little information there actually is on the page it's pretty stupid that I have to scroll to read it all.
- laconian 15y agoBIG FONTS! BIG ARROWS! SCROLL WHEEL TIME!
- reso 15y agoThanks for the great feedback. The tone of the site is meant to be lighthearted, so as to appeal to a comedian. We're not aiming this at a corporation wanting to entrust us with their millions, but a particular person with a good sense of humor. Sorry that didn't come through. Its also just a hook; obviously he wouldn't hire us based on this site alone. The launch page as it exists right now is not really related to this campaign. We've just been using it to a/b test marketing language so far. I totally agree the design is crap, after all, I made it myself!
- zaidf 15y agoRemember, Jim is the comedian. He's probably not looking to hire comedians like him to run what's in his mind a bunch of geeky shit. So yeah, being lighthearted is okay, but not at the expense of losing your cred as someone serious.
- leviathant 15y agoThis, a thousand times this. Jim's good at being funny, he needs someone who's good at providing a solid online venue for promoting his upcoming release. Take a good long look through the website for Version Industries, the guys who worked with Louis CK. I've known Caspar for years online, and I still have no idea what he looks like. But I can see from this website that he does good work.