Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#11

Post by megamark16 » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:13 PM UTC

It doesn't show up very well in Chrome (at least, it looks a little fuzzy to me), but fine in Firefox. Seems like a pretty cool tool.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#12

Post by djb_hackernews » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:20 PM UTC

Startup? No. Webapp? Probably.

Looks like more of an exercise in ui design than actual functionality, which isn't a bad thing.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#13

Post by peteysd » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:29 PM UTC

I like the site design. Simple and clean. I agree with the other poster that commented that some of the jargon was misleading.

Some of the information on the Help page should probably be made more prominent.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#14

Post by axod » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

really good design, but I have no idea why it would be useful.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#15

Post by johnrob » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:31 PM UTC

First thoughts: Looks like digg.com, calling votes 'bites' instead of 'diggs'. Oh, and there are 'slices' too...

After reading the help menu, I understand that tweeted bookmarks are the things in the list (aka 'slice'?).

I think the most important feedback I can give is to either include more help on the landing page (what are bites and slices?), or change the terms to be more obvious at first glance.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#16

Post by yosho » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:39 PM UTC

the site seems to have errors now... or is it just me?

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#17

Post by fname » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:42 PM UTC

yosho wrote: post #16

the site seems to have errors now... or is it just me?

+1.. errors here too

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#18

Post by railsbob » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:48 PM UTC

yosho wrote: post #16

the site seems to have errors now... or is it just me?

Sorry, we redeployed it just now with corrected content on 'About' Page.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#19

Post by railsbob » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:50 PM UTC

coffeemug wrote: post #4

The first (and biggest) problem is that when I land on the home page I have no idea what the service is supposed to do.

Hi coffeemug, that was a mistake. We have corrected about page with the introduction now.

Re: Ask HN: Rate my Startup www.birdpie.com (Updated)

#20

Post by run4yourlives » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:52 PM UTC

railsbob wrote: post #19

coffeemug wrote: post #4

The first (and biggest) problem is that when I land on the home page I have no idea what the service is supposed to do.

Hi coffeemug, that was a mistake. We have corrected about page with the introduction now.

I think he means that the first sentence on the about page should actually be on the front page.

I felt the same. The worst part was that I actually think your product is useful, even though I'm not a twitter user.

Don't hide your best selling point on some other page!