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Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by juliamae »

pedalpete wrote: post #2

Strikingly beautiful design. Incredibly simple and interesting premise. This site has done a GREAT job of letting the user do one simple thing before enticing them to get more involved. Very well done. One of the best new sites i've seen in a while. Oh, if you are the site creator, there is a bit of a bug in chrome&FF. the 'ok i'm game' button is placed over the 'x hours ago' line which I suspect is supposed to be ab…

Thanks for your feedback! We have new homepage in the works which should hopefully clear up some of the confusion.

IE7/8 support is almost done. Almost! :/

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by juliamae »

jhuckestein wrote: post #11

This site is beautiful, obviously. I also love the idea of challenging people to think big, like what they'd do if they ran the world. For me, this question involves ethical considerations, prevention of global conflict, the battle of hunger and poverty and the maximization of happiness. I don't understand how their microactions relate to that question at all. They seem to be asking two questions at the same time. On…

oh also, thanks for starting that other thread. the more people think about what our world _could_ be and the complexity of change, the better equipped we are to do something given the opportunity. plus, maybe someone will be inspired to start something on IWRTW ;)

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by jliebrecht »

silversmith wrote: post #14
pedalpete wrote: post #2

Strikingly beautiful design. Incredibly simple and interesting premise. This site has done a GREAT job of letting the user do one simple thing before enticing them to get more involved. Very well done. One of the best new sites i've seen in a while. Oh, if you are the site creator, there is a bit of a bug in chrome&FF. the 'ok i'm game' button is placed over the 'x hours ago' line which I suspect is supposed to be ab…

Ummmmm, on the point of beautiful design, are we seeing the same thing? This is what I see: http://imgur.com/0Jk8I.png -Not high enough contrast for my liking, -Bulks of text in low contrast = 'tl;dr', -I keep clicking what looks like input field but it won't work. Oh, I have to click... -...the 'I'm game' button below. That's practically invisible, due to being just outline, with the text hovering over another block…

Yep, we totally get that. We're changing out that intro page to something much better.

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

#34

Post by jliebrecht »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #9
smanek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? Granted, I have no idea what they're doing that requires 7 people (and only 2 coders ...).

His point is that's insane :). The general consensus on Hacker News is a good brand new start-up is 2-3 people, who are all coders. I tend to agree with this, except for exceptional projects like search engines. Most websites can be handled by a hacker or two at the beginning. This site could be done by just one mostly incompetent programmer in short order. What the other six guys could possibly be doing is a mystery…

I understand your view point. I've done a number of projects where all of us were coders/hacks and the product didn't go anywhere. It was awesome, but, no one knew about it. This is Cindy's vision so we can't very well kick her off :-)

Currently, there are only three of us on this full time. The others are part-time and great contributors to the project. We had Pivotal Labs on board early until we could find someone like Julia to join us full time. And, for some big chunks, we'll likely get them to help out again. They are a great shop.

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by jliebrecht »

tripngroove wrote: post #17
andrewljohnson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His point is that's insane :). The general consensus on Hacker News is a good brand new start-up is 2-3 people, who are all coders. I tend to agree with this, except for exceptional projects like search engines. Most websites can be handled by a hacker or two at the beginning. This site could be done by just one mostly incompetent programmer in short order. What the other six guys could possibly be doing is a mystery…

You folks may have missed the boat in assuming this is a startup. I think it's more about the idea/message/whatever. These people have other (good) jobs. Cindy Gallop (Founder/CEO) is a (quasi)retired ad exec. Her last web experiment: makelovenotporn.com. She talked about it at TED last year. No revenue model there. Oonie Chase is creative director at Blast Radius. The list goes on. Plus, not less than 3 people on th…

You get it.

We also decided to launch this as an experiment as well to get input and feedback like we are getting here. Rather than try to make it perfect at launch, we'll get the minimum viable product out there and see what the world wants from it. We've already made some changes and are continuing to do so based on feedback from the masses.

Thanks!

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by jliebrecht »

juliamae wrote: post #31
pedalpete wrote: post #2

Strikingly beautiful design. Incredibly simple and interesting premise. This site has done a GREAT job of letting the user do one simple thing before enticing them to get more involved. Very well done. One of the best new sites i've seen in a while. Oh, if you are the site creator, there is a bit of a bug in chrome&FF. the 'ok i'm game' button is placed over the 'x hours ago' line which I suspect is supposed to be ab…

Thanks for your feedback! We have new homepage in the works which should hopefully clear up some of the confusion. IE7/8 support is almost done. Almost! :/

Like Julia said, we're working on it. And for basic stuff, supporting IE is cake. Some of the features weren't cake and rather than release them non-functioning we made the call to get it working right. Soon!

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by cindygallop »

To everybody who's commented so far - we really appreciate the feedback, the compliments and the constructive criticism.

Just to add to my team's responses below:

- fulltime employees currently are 3: myself (founder/CEO/ business development/'customer service'), Jason our general manager who also operates as project manager and programmer, and Julia, programmer. Oonie has been working on user experience alongside her day job and joins us fulltime very soon. Sougwen our brilliant designer is currently on the digital media course at Hyper Island in Stockholm and works with us part-time. And Corey and Rachel at Pivotal Labs worked with us to build this while we were looking for full-time developers, are passionate about the venture, very much part of the team and we want to give them full credit for that.

- we pushed IfWeRanTheWorld out in beta very much in 'minimum viable product' mode because we wanted a real-world, real-time test to garner exactly the kind of feedback you are kindly giving us below, so we could jump on user experience/usability issues pronto, and address and refine accordingly alongside our own development timeline (which has additional features and functionality being added on a daily basis, along with addressing IE issues).

- you're quite right about the fact that while 'If I ran the world I would' is designed to inspire you to act on what you really personally care about, it's prompting users to think rather too big at the moment - we're jumping on that with some different ways of suggesting how you approach that, in order to turn big thoughts into tangible goals you (and everyone else helping) can turn into microactions that make them achievable.

- we, and I personally, really appreciate everything we're saying and will be acting on it

- I should just add that we are big fans of 'abnormal' - as in,doing things differently and coming up with innovative ways to achieve goals and be effective. Including where that, ahem, references the unusual instance of a startup team being female-dominated..:)

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by cindygallop »

cindygallop wrote: post #37

To everybody who's commented so far - we really appreciate the feedback, the compliments and the constructive criticism. Just to add to my team's responses below: - fulltime employees currently are 3: myself (founder/CEO/ business development/'customer service'), Jason our general manager who also operates as project manager and programmer, and Julia, programmer. Oonie has been working on user experience alongside he…

Whoops, apologies for typo, that should be 'we really appreciate everything YOU'RE saying..':)

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by cindygallop »

dflock wrote: post #12

It seems that most people using it have missed the point about micro-platforms and micro-actions, to actually enable the ideas to be broken into tiny achievable steps and be implemented. All the suggestions that I saw on there were basically in the form 'If I Ran The World I Would... boil the oceans.'

You're right - we want to encourage people to take things they really care about and think about how to tackle them via initially tangible goals they can then use friends, networks, and the connections we can provide to achieve via microactions. We're working to address and rebalance this.
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