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There's another site that does this, I think its called Hacker News :)
Also, there are a number of other improvements that would really make this site a lot more valuable for getting feedback than HN, such as rating feedback givers, incorporating Silverback, etc.
Do not send passwords in the clear via email! That is all.
There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the ycombinator pages and you will notice the average site has about 45 words and 4-9 links. Don't give them so many options and so much to read. Otherewise, looks good!
The quality of your users' interactions with FeedbackRoulette is directly related to the quality of the advice they receive. To recruit and retain the best users who give the best advice, you have to be giving out advice which is worth their time. The above quoted advice is well-intentioned but does not convince me that I am likely to realize business value by continuing to be engaged with the service.
To see another take at resolving this problem, take a look at StackOverflow: by breaking the 1:1 nature of the communication, you can use people's desire to peacock to get hypercontributing members of the community to be responsible for most of the good advice on the site, and let the 90% who do no writing merely vote the good stuff to the top. Hopefully they pick the right good stuff. If, on the other hand, StackOverflow picked two random programmers with a question and connected them, the average experience of using it would be getting your query on Rails ActiveRecord validation answered by a junior Java programmer from India. That would be a much less effective StackOverflow. It would likely not maintain the interest of somebody like John Skeet (who, if you are not familiar with the SO community, is something of a local legend).
(Sidenote: if this reviewer was right and there are in fact YC companies with 45 words on the front page... how do I put this gently... there must be someone in your alumni network who you trust on SEO, right? Talk to him about whether that is a good idea. It will be a very brief conversation.)
Reviewers submit a short review with the basic findings and points of improvement, and hint at a more in-depth review.
For a nominal fee, you could access a more in-depth review and consulting (maybe with coding help, etc..). The site could be a nexus between people needing reviewing help, and consultants, for a small fee.
Top reviewers could make a living out of this, other people can submit good reviews in the hope of being picked for consulting work.
Just my 2 cents of brainstorming (probably millions of buts to this one).
There's another site that does this, I think its called Hacker News :)
HN isn't always the right demographic for feedback. I could this particular service improving to limit/filter feedback in a way that would make them more useful. Also, there are a number of other improvements that would really make this site a lot more valuable for getting feedback than HN, such as rating feedback givers, incorporating Silverback, etc.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN isn't always the right demographic for feedback. I could this particular service improving to limit/filter feedback in a way that would make them more useful. Also, there are a number of other improvements that would really make this site a lot more valuable for getting feedback than HN, such as rating feedback givers, incorporating Silverback, etc.
This site isn't the right demographic for feedback either, unless you're building a website solely for other people who also have websites.