Ask HN: Review my startup, mindlog.co

URL: http://mindlog.co

Who I am: I have been reading HackerNews for sometime now but just recently started to post. Not that I didn't want to participate but simply because I didn't really feel like it was my place to do so. I left the web design and development world when I sold my business a couple years back. In the meantime, I became a bean counter(accountant). Which mean, I was pretty much out of the loop of the tech world. Ever since, I really wanted to start something(startup) that could help people and not just crunch numbers at a desk. Its why I started MindLog.co.

My idea behind MindLog.co was to create a mix of pinterest, tumblr with the ease to post without ever needing to leave the website you are currently visiting thanks to a pop-up bookmarklet. Its born from the saying "scratch your own itch". MindLog is perfect for me because it allow me to post links, images, quote and book's notes in a matter of seconds(3 steps at most). My personnal blog is the perfect example, a pinterest but for blogging; only 500 character or less posts. Everything that I really want to remember like; how to, marketing tips, links, etc is there.

P.S. The design is based on the theme crytal from themeforest and the MVP on "Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it" from Joel Gascoigne.

From a product standpoint - mindlog looks like Pocket meets Pinterest meets Evernote. Is that the intent? If it isn't you need to rethink your copy.

I would say one of the major things is that you should move the "registration" module to somewhere above the fold and focus on it more.

Also I suggest you make the tagline bigger and feature it more prominently in the middle of the cover image. This way, you can take off the "Q: What can mindlog be used for?" from the overlay and just have something like "Jack uses mindlog to...."

Last thing: the far left hover screenshot popup was broken for me, the other 3 worked perfectly fine.

Good luck!