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Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

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Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#11
I would certainly use favetop for aggregating videos and music. This feature is just awesome. I agree with others - bookmarks are best for launching links and webapps, specially when you are using ONE computer and only ONE browser.

Well, a question to site owners: do you track my clicks on links?? ;)

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#13

Why not put everything on one page? I'd rather scroll then click tabs.

That had never occurred to us. However, we consider ourselves an Internet Desktop, so like a PC we want to allow users some customization (possibly including their own design themes). Under the Settings we may include that as an option if there is enough demand for it, but we also believe in fast loading pages, so that would be one drawback.

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#14
I actually want a new homepage something a bit like this. I currently use either iGoogle (as it has lots of widgets which I can quickly use - e.g. GPS phone locator) or chrome default homepage (I like the big icons showing what the page actually looks like rather than a websites logo - helps you find the site faster).

I will usually only use the homepage when I first open the browser, as after that I can click bookmarks. I want the homepage to probably have a few rss feeds and some big buttons to click on and go to a new site.

Specific to your site: I wont ever use the video, games, photos, music tabs - and would like the choices to remove those tabs. My homepage must have no information that I do not need. I want it to be more streamlined and slick than a skinned rabbit covered in grease. I didnt want most of the default links on the web tab - and removing them individually was a pain as it took so long There is a bit too much space at the top of the page. the distance between the top bar and the search bar and the "tabs" bar should be decreased imo. "Feedback" on bottom of page is misspelt :)

So currently I would choose iGoogle. But I would try it for a while if there were choices on icon sizes, rss feeds, and a few optional widgets e.g. calculators, and there are options to hide all features which I dont want to see in settings.

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#15
If I refresh this page after creating an account it continuously doubles all of the icons on that page (first time one amazon icon, one Facebook icon, one of all the other icons, second time two of each, next time four, etc until it gets ridiculous):

http://www.favetop.com/index.php?actn=re

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#17

If I refresh this page after creating an account it continuously doubles all of the icons on that page (first time one amazon icon, one Facebook icon, one of all the other icons, second time two of each, next time four, etc until it gets ridiculous): http://www.favetop.com/index.php?actn=re

That bug is fixed. Thanks.

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#18
The site's UI is way to boring. Even if its suppose to be simple. Also being a programmer in my own right, I was looking at the source and using tables with spacers? I mean come on, its 2010.. Also another thing I am noticing is, is every bit of your application all in one directory? I am seeing files like indexg.php, gamesg.php. I may be wrong but that might make it really hard to pick up any more developers or investors who are a little tech savvy. Just my 2 cents. Good luck though.

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#19
I think the idea is a great one, just not for this audience. Hackers use the desktop as little as possible, but my mother clutters her desktop with EVERYTHING.

Personally, I think you are on a good path. After using it briefly it felt pretty good. The biggest problem you will have is getting traction (as others have mentioned), and I do not really have any good ideas on how to solve that.

Re: Please review our startup Favetop.com - Internet Desktop

#20

I actually want a new homepage something a bit like this. I currently use either iGoogle (as it has lots of widgets which I can quickly use - e.g. GPS phone locator) or chrome default homepage (I like the big icons showing what the page actually looks like rather than a websites logo - helps you find the site faster). I will usually only use the homepage when I first open the browser, as after that I can click bookma…

That's great feedback. We may eventually have that kind of customization under Settings. In fact, we've actually discussed exactly those things (and a lot more!), but we wanted to start with a core set of features and evolve from there.
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