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Honestly, I think it's a design issue. Interaction design, not visual design (the site's very pretty) because the answer to your question is right there on the
by alabut 18y ago
Honestly, I think it's a design issue. Interaction design, not visual design (the site's very pretty) because the answer to your question is right there on the home page, it's just nowhere near prominent enough to grab your attention in the 10 seconds you mentioned.
"No account needed!
It couldn't be easier! You can share photos with friends and family right now!"
You can tell it's important because it's repeated again directly below, with a minor change in wording:
"
Share your photos NOW - No account needed!
"
That's actually huge, I'm guessing it's even the main feature that sold YC on accepting them (to me, "photo sharing made stupid simple" = "no account needed") especially considering that trend in recent YC startups like posterous.
Actually, posterous is a great example, go look at their home page, the super prominent crossed out "make an account" line at the top of the page gets across the point really nicely.
- axod 18y agoI don't think picking a username and password is that big a hurdle for most people.
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- akirk 18y agoI hate if I have to enter a username when I just want to quickly try what something is about. I always try to build my apps so that you can use most of the functionality without an account. I think that should be the standard way to do it and not other way round.
- alabut 18y agoTry asking Mr 10 Seconds if creating an account got in his way.
- jskopek 18y agoI'm also confused about who this service appeals to. Flickr is incredibly popular across a whole age range, and was pretty much built around sharing and tagging photos. Most people who want to share photos but don't know (or care) about flickr will simply create a Facebook photo gallery, which is limited feature-wise but dirt simple to use. If this site had a facebook app it might be able to reach those users, but third-party applications seem to be loosing prominence since Facebook's UI overhaul last year.