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Ask HN: Please Review My Project (TrepsNation)

10 points by antlawrence 14y ago

Hi Everyone, My name is Anthony Lawrence, this is the first time that I've submitted anything here, but I read HN daily. I just launched a project that I’ve been working on and would really love your feedback. http://www.TrepsNation.com Briefly: I was bit with the entrepreneurial bug from an early age but this is my first attempt as an internet entrepreneur. With no prior startup, design, or development experience I was able to teach myself using the same resources found on my site. Being self-taught, one of the pains I’ve experienced is finding helpful resources without having to waste an entire day doing so. I wanted to create something that would help budding entrepreneurs avoid the same pitfalls and hassles I encountered. Right now the site is a working prototype and I am planning on launching more features in the coming months. Right now I’m at a point where I would really appreciate any and all feedback for improvement purposes. As excited as I am about being able to learn from the ground up and apply what I’ve learned, I’m more excited to see what HN can do! Anthony

noonespecial 14y ago
I like the way the tutorials are on the right side there. I'd work extra hard on building an awesome "tutorial ladder" designed to take people from "What is HTML?" all the way up to monetizing a working site with Stripe et al. It did however take me a few to figure out wtf a 'trep' was. Guess I'm slow but I kept wanting to think it was a football player from the University of Maryland. (Note: I'm both old-ish and ridiculously dyslexic.)
- antlawrence 14y ago
  Hi There! The tutorial ladder is definitely a plan in the works. I considered working on that more in the initial version of the site but decided to right now to just put a simple prototype to gather feedback. Thanks you for your input!
emrm101 14y ago
I think he is the best for Anthony Lawrence
- emrm101 14y ago
  http://www.basictechnews.com/entertainment-/others/110-life-insurance http://www.basictechnews.com/entertainment-/others/110-life-...
padseeker 14y ago
For someone with no dev experience it's clean and looks decent, if it is a bit plain. Using google fonts can go a long way to make a minimalist site look better. Take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, but... I have to ask what are you selling people, or why are they coming to your site? Who is your target audience? Having hung around hacker news long enough, it appears that most of the links you have posted are very familiar because they've been on hacker news before. If you are appealing to those who don't typically read hacker news then maybe you have a chance, but who are those people and how are you going to reach them? If you are appealing to hacker news readers I don't know why I am going to go to your site as opposed to hacker news. Are you going to create more compelling content or are you curating content? ALSO one more thing - you have some links under HOW TO VIDEOS and select javascript, but the first 4 links are for Java. Java != Javascript. If you are going to provide tutorial info you need to be a credible.
- antlawrence 14y ago
  Hi! The initial idea for the site is to help anyone interested in learning more about startups/entrepreneurship be able to do so. Instead of posting "new news" I wanted to focus more on curating educational articles, videos, and tutorials from around the web. So I definitely wanted the site to be more about curation vs. producing new content. I really appreciate your feedback, some of the best I've received anywhere!
  - padseeker 14y ago
    Fix the java vs. javascript thing, credibility is very important. I have not looked at your whole site but you may need to do some research to make sure you have your content properly organized under the right category. Think about who your target audience is, I don't think you have that determined just yet. Once you get that down figure out how you are going to get them to your site.
    - antlawrence 14y ago
      Definitely will do, thank you!
pdx 14y ago
Click: http://trepsnation.com http://trepsnation.com

10 points by antlawrence 14y ago

noonespecial 14y ago

I like the way the tutorials are on the right side there. I'd work extra hard on building an awesome "tutorial ladder" designed to take people from "What is HTML?" all the way up to monetizing a working site with Stripe et al. It did however take me a few to figure out wtf a 'trep' was. Guess I'm slow but I kept wanting to think it was a football player from the University of Maryland. (Note: I'm both old-ish and ridiculously dyslexic.)

antlawrence 14y ago
Hi There! The tutorial ladder is definitely a plan in the works. I considered working on that more in the initial version of the site but decided to right now to just put a simple prototype to gather feedback. Thanks you for your input!

emrm101 14y ago

I think he is the best for Anthony Lawrence

emrm101 14y ago
http://www.basictechnews.com/entertainment-/others/110-life-insurance http://www.basictechnews.com/entertainment-/others/110-life-...

padseeker 14y ago

For someone with no dev experience it's clean and looks decent, if it is a bit plain. Using google fonts can go a long way to make a minimalist site look better. Take what I am about to say with a grain of salt, but... I have to ask what are you selling people, or why are they coming to your site? Who is your target audience? Having hung around hacker news long enough, it appears that most of the links you have posted are very familiar because they've been on hacker news before. If you are appealing to those who don't typically read hacker news then maybe you have a chance, but who are those people and how are you going to reach them? If you are appealing to hacker news readers I don't know why I am going to go to your site as opposed to hacker news. Are you going to create more compelling content or are you curating content? ALSO one more thing - you have some links under HOW TO VIDEOS and select javascript, but the first 4 links are for Java. Java != Javascript. If you are going to provide tutorial info you need to be a credible.

antlawrence 14y ago
Hi! The initial idea for the site is to help anyone interested in learning more about startups/entrepreneurship be able to do so. Instead of posting "new news" I wanted to focus more on curating educational articles, videos, and tutorials from around the web. So I definitely wanted the site to be more about curation vs. producing new content. I really appreciate your feedback, some of the best I've received anywhere!
- padseeker 14y ago
  Fix the java vs. javascript thing, credibility is very important. I have not looked at your whole site but you may need to do some research to make sure you have your content properly organized under the right category. Think about who your target audience is, I don't think you have that determined just yet. Once you get that down figure out how you are going to get them to your site.
  - antlawrence 14y ago
    Definitely will do, thank you!

pdx 14y ago

Click: http://trepsnation.com http://trepsnation.com