Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com

Agreed with others on having to provide an email address right away. I think it's better to build some trust with the user first, by showing them your site before asking for an email address.

Good luck. I hope you kick evite's butt.

Is there a sample event that we can see for helping us evaluate your site? Everything I've seen so far looks good.

I see in the FAQ you guys compare yourselves to email. I was thinking your real comparison is the phone. I'm not sure why I would use this service instead of just phoning someone.

Perhaps I'm not the target market though. Otherwise, good luck to you. It looks like you put a lot of hard work into this.

Ditto almost everyone else's comments, especially about registering first. I'll also add my (highly personal) opinion about something else:

There seems to be a disconnect between the appearance of the site and the verbage. The design is excellent: simple, straight forward, and very professional. Build by pros who will be around for a while. Something I wouldn't hesitate to adopt.

Then words like "garbage", "vespa with tassles", and "kick in the pants" make me wonder if this is a bunch of script kiddies with a hobby. I know that makes it light-hearted and cute, but after a while, it just gets tiring (and risky to you). Just my 2 cents - who knows, maybe others like that.

Great job! Keep us posted.

I'll briefly preface my comments with the fact that when I've submitted sites to YC in the past, people have tended to focus on superficial things (IMHO). Maybe because it's easier to do that in a short span of time.

You've got a nice start, so take all of my comments with a grain of salt, of course:

- The front page is generally boring (screenshot? at least a photo of happy people?). I think other people have touched on this.

- There are too many things to click on the front page. Why are there two links to the "about" and "faq" pages? Are these the elements that you want people to focus on?

- In the same vein, there's too much text in general. I think engineers tend to overestimate the amount that people actually read on the web. I don't think you need to "dumb down" your site -- it's just that showing, rather than telling, tends to communicate more.

- The "create event" page is snazzily designed, but ultimately seems more like work than like fun, and it's one of the core interactions of your site.

- You can purchase contact importing scripts online for less than $100; I'd recommend it.

- Random: why have a FAQ if there aren't many users to A Q F? My experience has been that I nearly always guess incorrectly the questions people might ask.

- Why is the "logout" link under "Profile"? I had to click around awhile to find it.

- There's a lot of talk of "friends," but how much do you want to integrate social-networking features into the site? The more friction you have for other people to use the site (eg, if invited people have to "sign up"), the less likely they are to use it.

- General thought: How do you plan to differentiate yourself from Facebook, Renkoo, Evite, Skobee, and many other startups who have tried (and mostly failed) to solve the problem you're solving?

Congrats on launching and best of luck.