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I think it's a tad disconcerting that there is an empty blog... This seems like an easy blog topic to have some posts already made and, if a feature doesn't "work", why link to it?
I might be missing the point here but paying someone to tell me I'm awesome would make me feel rather sad. Of course, that may not extend to everyone. I imagine a reasonable portion of the self help community would embrace this sort of thing.
I built something similar to this awhile back: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/ I think telling people they are awesome is a great idea. I agree that the website needs work. I like the charging for real people to do it.
This seems great - the only thing stopping me from buying is knowing how annoyed my room mate would get after the first week or two. Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?
We can call whenever you want - just indicate the days you want us to call (or not call) on the new form.
I might be missing the point here but paying someone to tell me I'm awesome would make me feel rather sad. Of course, that may not extend to everyone. I imagine a reasonable portion of the self help community would embrace this sort of thing.
You could pay someone to remind someone you care about. Like, if you were going on a long journey or travelling, or lived in a different time zone from someone special to you.
Please tell me this is not real and website feels like spammy ebook sale websites, especially the colour scheme, use a theme from or CSS template to fix it quickly.
You know I would love a recommendation of a good theme. Once I get the site ready to start throwing traffic at with AdWords, I'll A/B test and post results on HN.
The uniqueness of your site will be your strongest selling point... at least it's very possible it will grab you a ton of traffic. However, as it stands right now, that's more of a risk. Forgive me for being blunt: the site looks crappy.
I highly suggest taking it offline and cleaning it up a bit. List your features, the benefits, the options you have -- do any of these things -- before releasing it into the wild. You want to make the first wave of virality as advantageous as possible.
As far as the idea -- it's quick, easy, and instantly profitable. It's recurring. It (tries to) make people feel good. The idea "feels" right for this moment of time in the internet -- it's something I feel would be blogged about and gazed at because it's both absurd and potentially useful. All-in-all, really a stellar project to make some quick money.
Please, clean the site up before going any further. Since it's just 1 page, why not pay a designer? You can definitely find one that would be excited to work on this. Just do something to improve the appearance. I want to see this succeed.
Edit: And, personally, I think that stock photo kicks ass. It's the right tone - absurd, yet promising to be fun and exciting.