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I really like the look of your Sprred, however it's not loading very quickly. What language and hosting setup are you running?
Painfully slow here too - Firefox 3.6.9 (Firebug installed). [The pages seem OK-ish but the images are very slow]
Well at least for me it was quite obvious what the site is all about without much effort. Good luck!
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Are you doing a lot of on-the-fly processing of the images? Seems like they're the reason the site is slow. I think things could be improved with better caching (server and client side with http headers).
Where's the money?
Seriously, if it's a startup business then their must be an expected revenue stream. If not just saying this as a pedant but as a consumer it's something I consider whenever I'm about to invest time/content in a new site. If there's no business then there's not much chance you'll be around in a year and all my investment will be wasted. It's one reason I pay for sites like Smugmug instead of choosing free alternatives.
I think I'm going to make it my job to ask the following question every time someone announces their "startup" or "business" on HN: Where's the money? Seriously, if it's a startup business then their must be an expected revenue stream. If not just saying this as a pedant but as a consumer it's something I consider whenever I'm about to invest time/content in a new site. If there's no business then there's not much ch…
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These are my complaints too. I spent three seconds on the page before going back because I already know about a lot of "autoblogging" service and have no interest in them, and from what I read, that's all I think your product does. If it does something else or if it does something better, you should be explicit about it. I want to know right away, I don't want to be met with marketing-speak about how easy it is to "s…
Thanks for the feedback. May be it just me, but it's not that unclear what service is. It's your Blog+Photostream+Videostream. It might be confusing cause its something of a new concept and you seem to have caught the usual/known features like Autoposting and email posting, but that's not where we defferentiate ourseleves.
I also find the homepage unclear as to what everything is and why I would use it. I basically think you need one clear message rather than a rotating message, plus screenshots or links to live or demo "sprreds". You can also consider a demo video, ala Dropbox's homepage, that explains in a fun way what you offer.
It's also achingly slow.
I'm sorry but this feels like a me-too amalgamation of a grab-bag of other services, a little bit of Tumblr, a sprinkling of Posterous, a dash of Flavors.me but without the secret sauce of any of them - the social elements of Tumblr, the beauty and editing tools of Flavors.me or the rah-rah early users of Posterous. I don't see a USP. It's also achingly slow.