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Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Re: Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Post by pjscott »

Lovely clean design. Two things:

1. What do the different colors of the strains mean? It's kind of confusing. From the URLs I'm guessing that the colors correspond to Cannabis sativa, C. indica, and hybrid strains -- it would be helpful to see some explanation of this.

2. On the pages for individual strains, there are lists of descriptors (e.g. a strain might make people feel "Energetic"). These should be clickable, if someone wants to see what other strains are most strongly associated with those descriptors. You already have something like this on your Explore page, so the plumbing for this shouldn't be too terribly hard. You could probably just link to your Explore page with the appropriate URL parameters.

Congratulations on launching, by the way.

Re: Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Post by dhimes »

sv123 wrote: post #41
rdoherty wrote: post #25

Nice site. What's your goal for users visiting? I see a signup link at the top right, which will be missed. If you want to get users to signup there should be a big signup button somewhere in the middle of the page. An API?! Awesome! Seriously, kudos, this is a great site.

Signup is definitely nice but our main goal is to get as much data as is possible right now, so make it as easy as possible to submit ratings. You can't post a site on HN if it doesn't have an api!

You can't post a site on HN if it doesn't have an api!

Is this your personal point of view, or an actual guideline for the site? If the latter, it's news to me, so thanks for citing it.

Re: Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Post by sv123 »

dhimes wrote: post #55
sv123 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signup is definitely nice but our main goal is to get as much data as is possible right now, so make it as easy as possible to submit ratings. You can't post a site on HN if it doesn't have an api!

You can't post a site on HN if it doesn't have an api! Is this your personal point of view, or an actual guideline for the site? If the latter, it's news to me, so thanks for citing it.

Just personal.

Re: Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Post by Alex3917 »

abstractwater wrote: post #35

Simple and nice design; especially spot-on is the periodic table look & feel which is visually easy to remember. One thing that's a little odd is that from reading the site's content marijuana looks like a 100% perfect drug. I was expecting to find a section about undesired side effects, ideally for each strain, and particularly related to long term usage. E.g. I've heard pot users say that in some occasions they exp…

"undesired side effects, ideally for each strain, and particularly related to long term usage."

Considering that even the academic studies on this are very unreliable, I think it would be virtually impossible to do this on the site unless you had tens of thousands of users filling out very detailed questionnaires.

Re: Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

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Post by moolave »

inmygarage wrote: post #8

I think as marijuana legalization becomes more of an inevitability, the stigma surrounding this very real market opportunity will disappear. Kudos to you for getting in early.

Yes, you are way ahead of the game (social media-wise)
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