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Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by nickknw » Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 1:09 AM UTC

mikegreenberg wrote: post #163

nickknw wrote: post #64

Hi Mike! In your first post you say "I've got great aesthetics and design sense". I could definitely use your advice on my personal website - http://nickknowlson.com My skills are those of a developer much more than a designer, but I tried to make it fairly clean. Thanks for doing this!

This looks awesome! You did everything simply and with purpose. My only gripe is with your line-spacing under the "Latest" heading on the "Home" page. Increase the line-height and indent the paragraph content by a bit. Sample CSS to do this... div.blockylist { line-height: 2.5em; } div.blockylist div { margin-left: 1em; } And I would add some tracking to the site. Metrics are important to know if people like what you…

Thanks! :)

I'll apply that change forthwith!

I do actually have Google Analytics already hooked up. I posted one article and it was pretty neat to see the big spike... followed by a return to (effectively) zero traffic. :)

It makes sense though, there's hardly any content on there yet. A year from now I'd like to have maybe 10-12 more blog posts and more projects as well. I guess we'll see how that goes!

Thanks again Mike!

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by jreposa » Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 2:05 PM UTC

mikegreenberg wrote: post #161

jreposa wrote: post #56

Is this easy to use? Your goal is to open a new savings account. http://www.mybanktracker.com/savings We just launched our new style of rate tables, but we need more testing. It would be great to have your opinion.

So, i agree that the page is a little busy. Maybe I'm dense, but the "Cash to Save" was ambiguous and couldn't decide if you meant "The end amount of cash I'd like to have after X months" or "How much I have now that I can move to this account". On the "Learn More" page after clicking a bank, the slider occasionally mis-renders. (The handle will render under the textbox which requests my deposit amount.) This is usua…

This is great feedback Mike. The "Learn More" page was built a long time ago, and I forgot that it uses the value from the slider from the previous page. I'll fix that today when I launch it on the CD rates page.

Thank you very much!

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by mikegreenberg » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 1:36 AM UTC

nickknw wrote: post #171

mikegreenberg wrote: post #163

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This looks awesome! You did everything simply and with purpose. My only gripe is with your line-spacing under the "Latest" heading on the "Home" page. Increase the line-height and indent the paragraph content by a bit. Sample CSS to do this... div.blockylist { line-height: 2.5em; } div.blockylist div { margin-left: 1em; } And I would add some tracking to the site. Metrics are important to know if people like what you…

Thanks! :) I'll apply that change forthwith! I do actually have Google Analytics already hooked up. I posted one article and it was pretty neat to see the big spike... followed by a return to (effectively) zero traffic. :) It makes sense though, there's hardly any content on there yet. A year from now I'd like to have maybe 10-12 more blog posts and more projects as well. I guess we'll see how that goes! Thanks again…

My pleasure, Nick. :)

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by mikegreenberg » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 1:36 AM UTC

lancefisher wrote: post #169

mikegreenberg wrote: post #153

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Lance! Great execution on this site. Very simple and straight-forward. I was not confused or lost at any step in the process. I'm pretty happy with the business model as well. I'm guessing you make a commission on the offer made by the service providers that bid on my jobs? Your website is clean and straight forward. No distractions. It would seem you're having a hard time getting service providers to give offers. I'…

Thanks, Mike! We are definitely better guessing some categories than others. We're improving that all the time. The suggestions are a feature we just added last week. It's actually free for services providers to make offers. We charge for ads, and may charge for some other premium features in the future. Thanks again for take the time to check it out!

I was happy to do it.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by mikegreenberg » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 1:38 AM UTC

ianpurton wrote: post #75

mikegreenberg wrote: post #42

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I think the sales page isn't bad. But it feels bland. - Your value add is probably not the elegant interface you're showing us. Sure, eye-candy is great, but the features you outline below talk about "Anywhere Monitoring" and "Multi-Server Listening Support", etc. Maybe an image of a guy staring at his phone (anywhere) with lines going from his phone to your logo to his servers. Give people an "at-a-glance" of how yo…

Thanks, I really appreciate your time.

My pleasure! :)