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Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

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Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#41

Great idea. The gallery could use some work however. Hovering over an entry creates all sorts of nervous animations that left me wondering if its just broken for my browser. Then clicking an image centers the image at the very same resolution, when I was hoping for something bigger. Finally, the blog links seem to be entirely place holders.

Same here. Having a click-to-enlarge option and serving the same picture is bad design.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#42
post #7

Design feedback: Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or change the color (red would stand out much more and still fit into your overall theme), or fade out the background slightly. Or, ideally, do more than one of those things. You really don't want those buttons to be hard to see. Cost and details of what you get should be…

Also: make the buttons actual... buttons in the HTML sense; not links.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#44
post #23

This feels more like a blog than a quirky site that sells socks. You need a couple of things fixed: 1. Front page needs to be clearer about what you are offering. The socks themselves are not directly described, the cost sort of shows up in the wall of text below, and the call to action buttons are small. The option to actually view the socks is hard to find at the top bar 2. The sock gallery page needs a lot more wo…

I disagree with most of this post and here's why: this site needs to connect with the type of people that are looking for socks of the month. I'd assume those people are more the whimsical type and that's exactly what this front page is.

Still, I would agree that something cooler should happen when you click on a particular sock -- maybe a funny video?

Keep it up, it looks great!

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#45
post #7

Design feedback: Your 'buy now' and 'learn more' buttons on the homepage are very hard to see. They need to stand out. Make them bigger and bolder, or change the color (red would stand out much more and still fit into your overall theme), or fade out the background slightly. Or, ideally, do more than one of those things. You really don't want those buttons to be hard to see. Cost and details of what you get should be…

Also, mentioning this works only in the US would be a good thing too. While people can deduce it from that the adress contains State and not Country, it would be better to spell it explicitly so we don't get our hopes up needlessly.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#47
i have to agree with all the other comments about buy now buttons (get them out of that image. Add some down by the text, make them FREAKING OBVIOUS ) and making pricing more obvious.

Personally I like my socks to be white and come in bags with other socks, which probably explains why I think spending $11 a month for a single pair of socks is insane, but I'm obviously not the target market.

Re: Show HN: I love weird socks and I'm finally launching my lifestyle business

#49
Cool! Great socks that will get me laid. $11/month? Doable. I'm not in the US (Canada, which is close but oh so far when shopping online), so I look all over for an FAQ or Shipping policy. Can't find it. Now I won't get laid. Bummer.

You're getting lots of feedback it seems and it's the early days yet. The messaging is there, I think. People are motivated by two things: Will it get me laid or get me paid? You've got that down.

Now it is just details.

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