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Lots of discussion (especially about entrenched players) in this previous News.YC thread "The hell that is a restaurant website" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130419
Nice site but it has multiple HTML errors viewable at http://validator.w3.org - especially the blog portion. It's best to have 100% validated HTML especially when offering to build sites for other people. Some times restaurant owners can be technologically inclined and may check these things out.
Also, as a Nokia employee, I hope that your pages are compatible with our phones....
Nice idea and design. Liked the website design too - pretty neat. Did you guys use a template for ToS and Privacy. If you have, could you pls share the link? thanks
Ha. I gotta laugh. I've seen so many websites that look like this, I have a hard time differentiating some of these startups. I know it's a proven navigational scheme and sound UI that studies show converts at a higher blah blah blah, but when is some one going to do something new with landing pages? Sheesh. Okay, on the count of 3, everyone click the down arrow on my comment!
Edit: I should mention that I totally agree with your comment. Can't wait to hire a graphic designer :)
I suspect that the majority of restos don't even have a site and making it super easy for them to customize, upload menus, sell unique resto themes, etc., provides great value. Perhaps even tie into reviews around the web and pics via apis.
Ha. I gotta laugh. I've seen so many websites that look like this, I have a hard time differentiating some of these startups. I know it's a proven navigational scheme and sound UI that studies show converts at a higher blah blah blah, but when is some one going to do something new with landing pages? Sheesh. Okay, on the count of 3, everyone click the down arrow on my comment!
Well I've got to give you credit for saying it to our faces, considering I designed that site. Now on the count of 3, tell me how a software engineer with no design experience can figure out in under a month how to put together a full-featured web application with a frontend, user control panel and admin interface and still worry about the uniqueness of the landing page graphic design? My real concern was that it wor…
Your customers won't know that this layout is well-worn territory for paid web apps. They will just see a beautiful, easy to understand website. Which it is...
Nice work.
You can design something to impress the HN crowd once you get traction. In other words, pay for the fluff with profits.
http://www.chompstack.com We all know how mobile unfriendly restaurant websites tend to be. Many of them are done in Flash, and don't work at all on most phones. Others force you to download PDF menus which take forever to load and have an annoying tendency to lock up my phone. The irony, of course, is that I'm most likely to be looking at restaurant websites on my phone, when I'm around town looking for an interesti…
This is the most important piece of information that is missing from your site. As a restraint owner looking at your site I'm thinking "What is this, an app, or a service or what?" and "how will my customers find my restaurant on their phone with this service?". Given that most restaurants that you are targeting are probably not even aware that people might access access the restaurant's site on their phone, you definitely need to answer these questions.
(edit: for example, your uWink demo video in the first frame already starts with the app (or site or whatever it is) on the screen. You should demonstrate how a customer would find uWink on their phone in the first place)
I love the design of your landing page. In particular, the graphic of the two iPhones on the right side made it _immediately_ and _compellingly_ clear what you're selling. Nice work.
The simple shadow immediately beneath the phones is plenty.