Ask HN: Save my dying Startup

I think the main page of the site has too much information. It is difficult to find out what is the main purpose of this site?

The site have stats and recent activities sections where only one user keeps reporting some values. These sections should be removed as it makes me think does this site has only user? Such sections make sense when site has enough activities to report, otherwise new users would think no one is using it so it is not worth signing up.

Basically the website looks more like old-styled corporate website than call-to-action website. You may have to hire professional website designer to get any mileage. Alternatively put only one thing which you do the best and remove everything else.

By the looks of it, you could also consider offering this for free and charge for some sort of api access.

Agree with the above. The problem is that by the sounds of your description your product has one killer feature - an algorithm to rate peers' predictions - but the website itsef looks like a generic consumer portal/network

Marketing spend itself shouldn't be an issue - you can drive traffic organically through blogging and even banging on the doors of your friends' old contacts.

ever see currensee.com?

It sounds to me like you did a very good job at Product Development, but a failing job at Customer Development. You should have validated your assumptions against a small customer base, focusing on the most minimum of viable products. Then, let your customers pull you for new features rather than brainstorm all the possible ways your product "could" be used.

A feature that people "could" use, but don't actually use, is not really a feature - it's wasteful development.

It sounds like there's really some valuable stuff in the product. Is there a core of what the product could do (trimming it down to an MVP) that you can then validate through a Customer Development or similar process?

I know - it's Monday night quarterbacking (or whatever the other analogy is here), but I find you learn more from failures than successes. And anyone who's been through this more than once will tell you that failures are far more common than success. The only true failure is giving up, so use this as an opportunity to learn, pivot, and find the winning solution.