Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by tptacek » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 1:50 AM UTC

If you are one person, no. Don't promote the fact that you're a one-person shop.

If you're multiple people, plenty of startups (Kayak and Meebo come to mind) put pictures up.

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by mattdennewitz » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 2:09 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #6

edw519 wrote: post #2

In case you want to maintain your privacy, do what I did... \/\/\/\/ / \ / \ / \ /\_/ 0 0 \_/\ | | \/ \ |_| / \/ \ / \ \-----/ / \ / \_______/ | |

Get a haircut!

that unkept youngster might be onto something!

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by mattdennewitz » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 2:16 AM UTC

kyro wrote: post #10

We opted for very stern and serious photos. http://looklookbuy.com/about

your second cto (second cto? there are only three of you!) looks like he's about to cry.

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by JangoSteve » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 2:22 AM UTC

It's hard to give a definite answer without knowing who your target market is or who you are. If you are a B2C, connecting personally is good, everyone loves the underdog startup. If you are a B2B, it may be difficult to land large contracts with that sort of persona.

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 9:48 AM UTC

hopeless wrote: post #3

Nope, it's everything except my face. Cameras are great for hiding behind ;-) http://www.shutterscouts.com/about.html

Just a fwiw. Your idea sounds like a good one but your features page is a bit lacking. You give images of other things but no images of your app, I couldn't even see if it's browser based or downloadable, nor what platform I need to run it off.

Your homepage mentions SMS, your features page doesn't.

I'm thinking it's something along the lines of a map based system where locations for future shoots are tagged, probably with some sample images as reminders + details of the conditions I'm looking for. Then there must be a calendar view showing any likely conditions matches and giving me a list of possible shoots? Plenty there for some more visuals. You've avoided overuse of text but the imagery (whilst lush) doesn't aid my understanding of your offering and isn't helping to lead me to sign up. Is it free?

Oh, apologies I tried "sign up" - you should label the website as a preview or state "sign up by email" if that's what you want folk to do. A great start, best.

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by sync » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 5:25 PM UTC

kyro wrote: post #10

We opted for very stern and serious photos. http://looklookbuy.com/about

Funny, but I hope you're working on the quality of your search results. This is horrible: http://looklookbuy.com/search?query=canon+powershot+g10&...

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by xiaoma » Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 8:21 PM UTC

kyro wrote: post #10

We opted for very stern and serious photos. http://looklookbuy.com/about

I found you guys likable after seeing that page!

Re: Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page?

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Post by herrherr » Fri, Oct 16, 2009, 9:09 AM UTC

Looking at the analytics of all the websites I have build (50+) the most visited page is always the "team" or "about" page. So there seems to be a desire for getting to know the people behind the company name. Yet this doesn't prove that it is a good idea ... just saying :-)