The ShareSpace tag is brilliant. I don't know if you came up with that yourselves or were inspired by another site, but either way nice work.
Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
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#32My first impressions of the site were good. I like the design. I found it funny that one of the first pages I hit was the FAQ where you downplayed the design. Anyways, the ui looks and works pretty slick. My only complaint was that when my form submission failed the error message was kind of small and initially below the fold, with no error indications above the fold. Otherwise I thought the site was really well done…
Thanks. What page was that error on?
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#33I 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.
Have you ever said to someone "a bunch of us are heading to _____ for _____. You should come."? This is the kind of situation we're targeting. If you can easily inform everyone you want to at once, we've shaved a good bit of time off of your phone calls.
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#34PG says to get your site out early and often, so thats what we're trying to do. We're far from finished, but feel its about time to take the ultimate test, and show the news.yc crowd. Our Site: http://coordinatr.com is a site designed to give you the necessary tools to quickly and effectively coordinate plans with your friends, without any unnecessary garbage to slow you down. Check out our FAQ for more info: http://…
Congratulations on all your hard work. It's a nice looking, easy to use site. That said, here are a few issues.
1) It has a very silly name. The whole fad of misspelled words has run is course. I think it automatically associates your site with the whole concept of "yet another web2ish site", which simply won't last forever.
2) There is a serious lack of screenshots on the page. Show me what you do and how you do it, before asking for my email. Also, a screencast wouldn't hurt.
3) The calendar doesn't automatically highlight what today's date is. I think it should.
4) You don't seem to support Unicode. This is a huge mistake, which is quite typical of American startups. I created an event on purpose with the name "Questa è una prova". It got converted in an unhelpful "Questa ? una prova".
5) In the list of invitees, you cut the names down to the first part of the email addresses only. So now all I know is that I invited "info", not info at johnsmith.com.
6) In the profile area you only have settings in place for city/state/zip. Again, very American centric. And it's a bad thing (TM).
7) In the confirmation email, if info@reddit.com invites info@ycombinator.com, you send emails that look like this: Dear info, info has invited you to...
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#35The ShareSpace tag is brilliant. I don't know if you came up with that yourselves or were inspired by another site, but either way nice work.
Thanks! Other people actually came up with the concept, but we came up with the name.
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#36I like the instant feeback thing on the left - very slick! My only complaint is that it forces you to sign up if you want to view the event details. I can do this with Facebook already. I'd like to see more details in the "You're invited..." email. That way I could invite people like my parents (who vaguely understand email, but not how to sign up for this kind of service) to quick & easy events. Forcing a sign up to…
Yes that instant feedback thing is slick! But I thought it said facebook - and I got a little jaded. It must be me.
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#37i like it more than evite for sure.
there are some little issues but i am sure you will work those out. some of the UE needs work like adding info to the profile. no biggies though. i am looking forward to see how the event ID can be use to show fotos, vids, friends, etc.
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#38Love the design!
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#39I'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 touche…
You bring up some very good points, most of which we have been concerned with and have been debating about as well.
Quick Question: - In terms of too much text, are you referring to the about us and FAQ pages? Or was that an "across the board" comment?
We're taking the approach of a little goes a long way. A lot of sites inundate you with content and functionality...they give you a pneumatic nailer when all you needed was a pushpin. We're trying to give you a pushpin and maybe some picture instructions. As you pointed out, many other sites have failed at this already, so it's key for us to receive and closely analyze user feedback to see if this is indeed the correct approach to be taking.
Thanks again for your candid feedback...it is greatly appreciated!
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#40PG says to get your site out early and often, so thats what we're trying to do. We're far from finished, but feel its about time to take the ultimate test, and show the news.yc crowd. Our Site: http://coordinatr.com is a site designed to give you the necessary tools to quickly and effectively coordinate plans with your friends, without any unnecessary garbage to slow you down. Check out our FAQ for more info: http://…
Congratulations on all your hard work. It's a nice looking, easy to use site. That said, here are a few issues. 1) It has a very silly name. The whole fad of misspelled words has run is course. I think it automatically associates your site with the whole concept of "yet another web2ish site", which simply won't last forever. 2) There is a serious lack of screenshots on the page. Show me what you do and how you do it,…
Thanks for the feedback. We understand the name is silly, but we wanted to get a domain that meant something when too many domains are random madeup words. Coordinatr.com is as close as we could come to getting that point across. If you have other recommendations for available domains, let us know!
The display name is generated based on your first, last name, and email address, so as soon as you enter a first and last name, we change what is shown. This way, we don't have to ask a lot of questions up front.
We understand it is very US centric right now. Our goal is to get it out there and get a user base so we can justify spending more time and resources on improving functionality and user experience.