Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
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Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#2Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up.
Consequently, I did not sign up.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#3Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up. Consequently, I did not sign up.
Agreed... You need a video, a tour, or a how it works section. I'm not signing myself up for anything without a clue of what it does or how it works.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#4Nice execution! I like the badges and WPM counter on the right, and it steps you nicely into using it.
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#5Awesome app! I'd actually enjoy reading regular books like this. Can I upload PDFs to have read to me at my speed of choice? If you could access my kindle library that be even better.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#6Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up. Consequently, I did not sign up.
Agreed... You need a video, a tour, or a how it works section. I'm not signing myself up for anything without a clue of what it does or how it works.
No, you need a lazy signup process -- let me use (most) everything immediately. Save my data in a cookie or in a temporary user object on your server, and make it permanent once I signup.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#7Nice idea! A couple of suggestions:
1) Make the quizzes shorter than 2 minutes.
2) As avree and bherms suggested, you need an intro. before the sign-up. I'm just an impulsive sign-upper because I like checking out new sites, but I suggested the site to my friend and he just stared at it before getting distracted by something else.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#8Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up. Consequently, I did not sign up.
I agree also, you really need a lot more information up front to tell people what the service actually does. Especially for a service like this, I don't see a lot of value hiding the content behind a registration wall.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#9This site is fundamentally flawed. The key to fast reading is learning to read phrases rather than words. It is the same concept as reading words instead of letters (obviously after you have passed the phonetics reading stage).
The only site I know of to truly learn to read fast, without silly scams or even a cost, is http://www.readspeeder.com/ It takes a little figuring out as it is really lacking in usability (I suggest reading the help files) but it will give you staggering results.
Re: Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed... You need a video, a tour, or a how it works section. I'm not signing myself up for anything without a clue of what it does or how it works.
No, you need a lazy signup process -- let me use (most) everything immediately. Save my data in a cookie or in a temporary user object on your server, and make it permanent once I signup.
This would be great; but ANYTHING other than a signup form on the front page would be a huge improvement.