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I'm sure I have ADD or something but I can't bring myself to read so much text.

by henryl 17y ago

TomOfTTB 17y ago
You aren't the only one. There have been countless studies on this that say people aren't going to read more than a paragraph or so before giving up on a site. My advice to dejan: Most important thing, buy a copy of a book called "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug (http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244290471&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134...). Have it shipped next day. I can't go in to all the reasons you need the book without essentially rewriting the book here but you really, really need it. On the startup idea itself, I don't see anything inherently wrong with it. I'm not sure how successful the "suggest ideas" side will be only because, in my experience, people tend to be secretive about w hat they feel are their "great ideas". Most people that I've met have a dream of eventually executing on the ideas themselves one day and they don't want to give away a million dollar idea (which is generally their perceived value of it). The company feedback idea on the other hand is a good one if you can build a community to support it.
- dejan 17y ago
  :) Thanks TomOfTTB I've read that book, and I agree that it's not so clear, as in the other comment. No excuses...but take a month of time, and what you can build in that time span, alone. There is two of us, but I am the only developer/designer :) Would I spend another month hiding it while tweaking. No. We need to go bravely public as soon as possible and change stuff on the fly. This is so true, that revealing ideas is so difficult. I see it everyday, yet people do this within companies too. It's a million dollar idea. Well, unless you do something about it, its worth nada. And Aleveo aims at those ideas that you see around you and have no intentions on acting upon. How many times a day we say hmm, that can be done this way. Do we act on it... rarely. With students it's even more different. When they graduate, they have nothing in their CVs. At least, they can have their ideas. And thats is what we want to show to the world. Can't find the article now, but I think it was either Seth Godin or on Signal vs. Noise on value of ideas. Basically, they set it straight forward: bad idea -$1 poor idea $0 good idea $1 great idea $10 no execution 0 poor execution 1000 good execution 100.000 outstanding execution 1.000.000 great idea with some good execution might be worth $10 x 100.000, but without execution it's just a 0. Moreover, no one ever pursues other's ideas, as they say, everyone thinks your idea is stupid except you. Thanks for the input, highly appreciated.

I'm sure I have ADD or something but I can't bring myself to read so much text.

by henryl 17y ago

I'm sure I have ADD or something but I can't bring myself to read so much text.

You aren't the only one. There have been countless studies on this that say people aren't going to read more than a paragraph or so before giving up on a site. My advice to dejan: Most important thing, buy a copy of a book called "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug (http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244290471&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134...). Have it shipped next day. I can't go in to all the reasons you need the book without essentially rewriting the book here but you really, really need it. On the startup idea itself, I don't see anything inherently wrong with it. I'm not sure how successful the "suggest ideas" side will be only because, in my experience, people tend to be secretive about w hat they feel are their "great ideas". Most people that I've met have a dream of eventually executing on the ideas themselves one day and they don't want to give away a million dollar idea (which is generally their perceived value of it). The company feedback idea on the other hand is a good one if you can build a community to support it.

dejan 17y ago
:) Thanks TomOfTTB I've read that book, and I agree that it's not so clear, as in the other comment. No excuses...but take a month of time, and what you can build in that time span, alone. There is two of us, but I am the only developer/designer :) Would I spend another month hiding it while tweaking. No. We need to go bravely public as soon as possible and change stuff on the fly. This is so true, that revealing ideas is so difficult. I see it everyday, yet people do this within companies too. It's a million dollar idea. Well, unless you do something about it, its worth nada. And Aleveo aims at those ideas that you see around you and have no intentions on acting upon. How many times a day we say hmm, that can be done this way. Do we act on it... rarely. With students it's even more different. When they graduate, they have nothing in their CVs. At least, they can have their ideas. And thats is what we want to show to the world. Can't find the article now, but I think it was either Seth Godin or on Signal vs. Noise on value of ideas. Basically, they set it straight forward: bad idea -$1 poor idea $0 good idea $1 great idea $10 no execution 0 poor execution 1000 good execution 100.000 outstanding execution 1.000.000 great idea with some good execution might be worth $10 x 100.000, but without execution it's just a 0. Moreover, no one ever pursues other's ideas, as they say, everyone thinks your idea is stupid except you. Thanks for the input, highly appreciated.