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Ask HN: Review my startup - elephrame.com

#1

Post by ajrobinson » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 7:53 PM UTC

Hi guys,

I created Elephrame to help people exchange ideas as thoroughly and effectively as possible. The concept is that while you would go to a place like Wikipedia to get information about a topic like Mitt Romney, you would come to Elephrame to find out what people think and believe about Mitt Romney.

With that in mind, I'd like to know what you think about the concept and the site itself. I'm interested specifically in three questions:

1. Does the landing page compel you to look around, sign up and/or contribute? 2. Is it easy to understand what Elephrame can help you do? 3. It is easy to understand how to actually use the site (i.e. make a claim, etc.)?

Beyond that, any other feedback - positive, negative, in-between - would be very helpful and appreciated. Elephrame's hit a difficult barrier when it comes to user conversion and I'm eager to know how everyone thinks the network can get over it.

URL: www.elephrame.com

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - elephrame.com

#2

Post by pranavk » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 8:02 PM UTC

nice concept !

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - elephrame.com

#3

Post by ajrobinson » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 8:07 PM UTC

pranavk wrote: post #2

nice concept !

Thank you. Do you have any criticisms, by chance?

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - elephrame.com

#4

Post by stephen2m » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 8:19 PM UTC

The concept is very good...it's nice to have a one-stop shop - so to speak - for info on a certain topic. My two cents so far:

1. The neutral colors is a good thing...I think it gives the site a minimalistic as well as non-pro/non-con feel. Great job there :)

2. The Logbook page (and basically any other page needing to display lots of text-heavy content): perhaps opting for a layout style that enables people to scroll less while viewing more content? Something like jQuery Masonry combined, perhaps, with Twitter-style page scrolling?

Those two points are what I have to share now...if I have anything else I'll mention it

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - elephrame.com

#5

Post by ajrobinson » Tue, Oct 30, 2012, 8:34 PM UTC

stephen2m wrote: post #4

The concept is very good...it's nice to have a one-stop shop - so to speak - for info on a certain topic. My two cents so far: 1. The neutral colors is a good thing...I think it gives the site a minimalistic as well as non-pro/non-con feel. Great job there :) 2. The Logbook page (and basically any other page needing to display lots of text-heavy content): perhaps opting for a layout style that enables people to scrol…

Thanks a lot for the response.

1. I'm glad that you get the minimalist/non-pro feel from the site. That was my aim so that's good news.

2. I hadn't thought about Masonry-like layout, but I'm thinking that could be a good idea so that people can see the diversity of content.

However, the reason I avoided Twitter-style scrolling was because I often find myself on other sites wishing I could just hop to a page from a long time ago, but instead having to press "More" over and over again. Haha. I always have an open mind though as I get new info/feedback.

Thanks again for your input and definitely come back if you think of anything else.