Uh, People really need to get over that Flickr-style of naming their products. In particular with long names. It just looks stupid. Good luck, though.
What alternatives would you suggest?
Coor.di.na.tr!
Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
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Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
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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,…
Speaking as a human being rather than a L337 haxxor (or however the kids spell it nowadays), I think a photo of happy friends hanging out on the front page would be preferable to screen shots.
That might make it seem kinda fake with stock photographs and all.
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#73Nice job, 3 comments
1) If I fill a time in 24 hour format for example 23:00 you need to parse it correctly and understand its 11pm.
2) Let me add users to an event I already created.
3) Let me add people's IM instead of email. Especially critical for events that are in the next few hours as emails aren't always checked as often.
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#74Nice job, 3 comments 1) If I fill a time in 24 hour format for example 23:00 you need to parse it correctly and understand its 11pm. 2) Let me add users to an event I already created. 3) Let me add people's IM instead of email. Especially critical for events that are in the next few hours as emails aren't always checked as often.
All great suggestions...thanks for checking out the site!
Just an FYI, once you create an event, if you edit it, then you are able to add more friends.
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking as a human being rather than a L337 haxxor (or however the kids spell it nowadays), I think a photo of happy friends hanging out on the front page would be preferable to screen shots.
That might make it seem kinda fake with stock photographs and all.
If the photo looks "fake", sure. I think a decent photo would work great - maybe one of the founders or from users?
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#76Screenshots. A picture is worth a.. you get the idea. Three or four nice screenshots of your interface on the front page, or at the top of another page (how does it work, FAQ etc.) Not having those was an immediate turn off for me.
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#77Screenshots. A picture is worth a.. you get the idea. Three or four nice screenshots of your interface on the front page, or at the top of another page (how does it work, FAQ etc.) Not having those was an immediate turn off for me.
That's starting to become a recurring theme. Will definitely look into it. Thanks!
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#78you bash email (which i like, don't see what's wrong with it) but i didn't see how you notify my friends instead of by emailing them. personally, i'm only really available by AIM and email. maybe the target audience includes cell phone users and you send text messages or something? it should say how you contact ppl near the top of the FAQ.
Our intention is not to really bash email, but say that it is not the be all and end all for coordinating individuals. It's a great tool to use in conjunction with other means of communication for conveying our message, which in this case is event information. We should probably emphasize all avenues of communication that we support. Thanks!
you compare using email to plan things to drunk driving, so i think that counts as bashing.
it's your decision if you want to market yourselves that way, it could be for the best, i dunno.
glad to hear you'll add details about what communication you use.
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#79I 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…
On a UX note, please add a afterFinish function to the slide animation that focuses the first form field. Thanks!
Re: Asking for Feedback on Our Startup: Coordinatr.com
#80The site looks good, but this wouldn't make 'micro-event' planning any easier for me. I just text my friends. I only make one message and send it to my 'friend' group. You would have to improve upon that for me to sign up.
I understand this is early stage, so this is basically food for thought.