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Re: Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

#31

Post by webwright »

Love it. I'm about to buy a fixer upper and this would be really valuable. Also, it's an excellent market for advertising (lucrative niche).

Seems also very valuable for remodeling-- not just furniture. The most commonly remodeled rooms are kitchens and bathrooms.

The site is agonizingly slow. You are serving up 200k+ images scaled down in HTML. Seriously? Make it as fast as hot or not and you have a winner.

I'd also break it down by room. Kitchen, Living Room, Bedroom, etc.

Of course, as with many sites-- there's no build in marketing. How are you going to get visitors?

Re: Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

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Post by hussong »

I usually don't fancy those quizzes (e.g. for music and movie tastes), but yours was actually interesting. Very good pictures, fun to look at, but they took too long to load to keep me involved til the end.

Scaling of fonts / liquid layout could be improved, looks a bit funny on FF/Ubuntu. Layout could use more white space for clarity.

I still like the idea. Good start, keep it up!

Re: Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

#36

Post by paul7986 »

Yes nice that you allow use of the site right away which then takes you further into the site.

I kept answering like, hate and what not for like 20 rooms, but then got tired.

I thought it would stop, analyze the rooms I liked and give me a personality or the app would design my perfect room with perfect furnishings.

good job and good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

#37

Post by rtc »

cjc wrote: post #29
Jasber wrote: post #19

I thought it was confusing how the quiz controls changed after I answered the first question. You should make that consistent. Otherwise nice work.

Agreed. Specifically, moving the controls from the right hand side to the left hand side was jarring.

this is an artifact of our previous quiz interface; the comments here make sense and we'll change it to be less confusing.

Re: Ask HN: Review our webapp (Sproost); team met on HN

#38

Post by rtc »

webwright wrote: post #31

Love it. I'm about to buy a fixer upper and this would be really valuable. Also, it's an excellent market for advertising (lucrative niche). Seems also very valuable for remodeling-- not just furniture. The most commonly remodeled rooms are kitchens and bathrooms. The site is agonizingly slow. You are serving up 200k+ images scaled down in HTML. Seriously? Make it as fast as hot or not and you have a winner. I'd also…

yes, we'll optimize for speed soon (but we hope to optimize at the right time). bedroom and dining room are next on the list. getting visitors is indeed the big challenge. SEO, viral/social, and SEM (in that order) are what we'll focus on. would love feedback in this area as well.
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