4 ms·
My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?
- sgraham 19y agoI see no way to vote. (FF2)
- Lockheed 19y agoHonestly, it looks GREAT! and it works great! I love the concept. Kind of HotOrNot+Video mashup. Sweet. [get rid of that "sexy " stuff. Look at dailymotion.com .Now they are working hard to get rid of the porn content.Reason, they didnt care about it in the beginning ]
- aarontait 19y agoLooks gorgeous. Where's the business model? You can't have a business without a way for it to make money.
- sabat 19y agoAll you need is a regular audience of visitors and you can make money. Take PlentyOfFish.com for instance. Revenues of more then $5 million per year, all ad-driven.
- mattrandle 19y agoIts fantastic & very entertaining. A true testament to what can be achieved with skill, knowledge, and an idea. Well done.
- vuknje 19y agoThanks, dude.
- luccastera 19y agovuknje, there is a typo on the url in your profile info. fyi.
- vuknje 19y agothanks - i fixed it.
- sabat 19y agoI like the idea a lot. I have no idea how you vote for a clip, though. You should make that dead obvious.
- vuknje 19y agoThere are big green "vote" buttons under each video. They disappear if you have voted, and result is shown.
- sabat 19y agoIt's weird. Adblock seemed to be blocking them. No idea what filter I wrote that would have done that.
- sabat 19y agoOK, it's not adblock. There are now no voting buttons I can find anywhere on the site, either on the home page, or on arena pages. I tried in Firefox (2) and in IE (7).
- vuknje 19y agoI've found a bug. It should work now.
- rchambers 19y agoNice layout. Easy to use. Good Luck!
- vuknje 19y agoThanks!
- pramodbiligiri 19y agoWow, nice idea and executed excellently. One week? I gather you are a webdev in your day job then? XHTML Strict, jquery etc... A couple of suggestions: For about 20 secs I couldn't figure out what this site was. Maybe a helpful tagline close to the logo? The vertical list of arenas next to the videos jerks a bit as I hover. A little unsettling. Some extra margin or padding for those boxes should fix it. Try some viral angle - "Tell a Friend" or something. Maybe a Gabbly box to chat with anyone else who is on at the same time. Best of luck. I hope you don't get porned.
- vuknje 19y agothank you for your time and suggestions. yes, i was a webdev in my day job before i quit you're right - some tagline should be fine.. any ideas? for viral angle: i plan to make generated code for embeding arena into a web site gabbly looks interesting, i didn't see it before. thanks for information cheers
- pramodbiligiri 19y agoI just read about <a href="http://madkast.com http://madkast.com">MadKast</a> on TechCrunch..you should definitely look at that to put a "Share this" widget! :) It's beautiful.
- codeLullaby 19y agoNice concept, nice design. Great job vuknje. But there is a bug in there. If you click multiple times fast enough(or if the same arena is opened in multiple tabs before i start voting ), it accepts each click as a valid vote. Do not depend on UI components/client side script for validation. And in UI, it says "New Arenas (1 - 10) " although it shows only 1-3 (/new.php) Hope this helps. All the best vuknje.
- vuknje 19y agothanks for feedback! i fixed a bug you've found.
- jaed 19y agoFeature request: Please change the UI so it doesn't look so Web 2.Oh :-)
- vuknje 19y agohmm.. but it would take me an additional week.. it's too much time in a web2.0 world ;) btw, your site (altruistiq.com) looks awesome.
- ed 19y agoJust a thought: do the winners in each category bubble up to the top? It'd be cool to try and "challenge the #1 spot" with your own video.
- iamwil 19y agobtw, myyearbook.com has implemented something similar. At least your site doesn't give me motion sickness.