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elephinoinc.com

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Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

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Is this like an openly paid Digg or something? Needs more explanation.

yes. all the analytics are open to everyone. you can submit content for free or pay for it to be placed higher up in the list. advice as to specifics for the explanation?

I went to your site. I saw a list of links. I saw buttons that say 'buy' and 'adjust'. The price is 0. The CPMs are 0.

I am confused.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

#13
Why would I pay to have my site linked to on your site? Do you have enough traffic?

How is it sustainable? After a while, all the top sites would be paid and thus of no interest to users who visit your site.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

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I think it's a pretty cool idea, good luck with it.

Likes: I like when you X out of something it replaces the content, pretty smooth.

Dislikes: the wording of the yep nope buttons, while it made me laugh because a yep nope is a mullet reference, but your site seems to be fun but still serious site(analytics) Maybe: Yea / Nay | Yes / No | Advertiser / Visitor

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

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I like the model of mixing fully disclosed/transparent paid placement with another default noneconomic ranking. Goto.com won big with that and more recently Stumbleupon.

The name Elephino is somewhat weak but might work if you had the domain 'elephino.com'. I have a hard time imagining people telling their friends that they visit 'el-eph-in-o-inc-dot-com', especially since all the Elephino syllables have multiple plausible alternate spellings.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

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It looks nice and behaves well, very clean. I couldn't immediately tell what value I would derive from using your service -- eventually found 'How it works' at the bottom. Maybe there's a way to make it painfully obvious for people like me.

Using ul/li for your central list, instead of nested faceless spans, will make it a little more accessible too.

Re: Ask HN: feedback on my startup?

#19
I went to your site and have no idea what it is. Some short "about" page would be really helpful. Why is there a "buy now" button (that btw does nothing at the moment - too much traffic?)

edit: I found how it works - link at the bottom. Would be very good idea to link it on the top of the page somewhere.

I don't understand the concept for the visitor, why would I want to visit a social news site that has easily manipulated voting system?

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