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Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Post by vnorby »

axod wrote: post #14

really good design, but I have no idea why it would be useful.

Design is nice, but the UI/information architecture is confusing - lot of information that I don't understand, and the nomenclature is awkward. I would suggest showing less information, i.e. you don't need to show who submitted the links on every "slice," considering that all the slices on a page are inherently connected to one person. I think you could get rid of the "see original tweet" text as well, and maybe just show the bird somewhere if you really need that feature (although I think it can be removed).

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Post by vaporstun »

run4yourlives wrote: post #20
railsbob wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi coffeemug, that was a mistake. We have corrected about page with the introduction now.

I think he means that the first sentence on the about page should actually be on the front page. I felt the same. The worst part was that I actually think your product is useful, even though I'm not a twitter user. Don't hide your best selling point on some other page!

I think this was an accident. The true homepage to this site is: http://www.birdpie.com/ and the submitted link is http://www.birdpie.com/railsbob which points to a user's page. The only way to truly fix this submission would be to edit the URL.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Post by mikeryan »

mikeryan wrote: post #3

On first hit I had no idea what it was. I thought some sort of digg/reddit/hackernews dealio

I should note for other "Rate my site" people.

This is singularly the most common issue I face with new sites. If its brand new explain what it does a bit somewhere near the top of the page. (Even a "What is birdpie?" link on the top of the page works for me)

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Post by run4yourlives »

vaporstun wrote: post #22
run4yourlives wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think he means that the first sentence on the about page should actually be on the front page. I felt the same. The worst part was that I actually think your product is useful, even though I'm not a twitter user. Don't hide your best selling point on some other page!

I think this was an accident. The true homepage to this site is: http://www.birdpie.com/ and the submitted link is http://www.birdpie.com/railsbob which points to a user's page. The only way to truly fix this submission would be to edit the URL.

ah sorry.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

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Post by Raphael »

You need a denser UI. I can only see 4 bookmarks on the screen at a time. Raise that to at least 10.

Categories and tags are redundant. Remove categories. I like the automatic tagging, but I may want to manually edit them sometimes.

Link to Twitter.com's profiles and tweets. Re-tweet buttons would make sense.

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