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I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by heelhook »

You should probably scratch the beta label in your site, too many things launch in beta lately and its an increasingly annoying trend.

Since you haven't launched yet the beta makes even less sense.

Re the UI of the landing page, looks awesome, a video of kids using the thing would be engaging and definitely a way to be notified with a simpler open ID sign in c.f. typing your email address would be better, that said, I understand you don't want to be working for too long on your coming soon page and focus on what you are building ;)

Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by imcqueen »

heelhook wrote: post #2

You should probably scratch the beta label in your site, too many things launch in beta lately and its an increasingly annoying trend. Since you haven't launched yet the beta makes even less sense. Re the UI of the landing page, looks awesome, a video of kids using the thing would be engaging and definitely a way to be notified with a simpler open ID sign in c.f. typing your email address would be better, that said,…

Yeah, agreed, a video or demo is definitely needed. I think we're going to deploy a sample game soon to try and give everyone a preview.

I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks for checking it out.

Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by robryan »

heelhook wrote: post #2

You should probably scratch the beta label in your site, too many things launch in beta lately and its an increasingly annoying trend. Since you haven't launched yet the beta makes even less sense. Re the UI of the landing page, looks awesome, a video of kids using the thing would be engaging and definitely a way to be notified with a simpler open ID sign in c.f. typing your email address would be better, that said,…

Beta is a good way to make users less annoyed when something goes wrong though. If you are Google sure I agree it's not really meaningful but if you are a small startup or one man operation just launching things are bound to go wrong early on.

Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by dshipper »

I'm the creator of DomainPolish which I threw together over the weekend. Aside from thanking the community in general, and Iain in particular I just want to let all of you know that if you have any questions about the service just email me at dan@danshipper.com and I will be glad to answer them. Thanks again!

Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by bane »

dshipper wrote: post #5

I'm the creator of DomainPolish which I threw together over the weekend. Aside from thanking the community in general, and Iain in particular I just want to let all of you know that if you have any questions about the service just email me at dan@danshipper.com and I will be glad to answer them. Thanks again!

Fantastic idea. I just talked it over with my co-founder and we will definitely be using this service in the future.

Can you discuss a little how you source the focus groups? Are they free volunteers? Folks at a mall? It might be helpful to understand a bit about how web-savvy they might be.

Re: I tried DomainPolish. Here are the results

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Post by dshipper »

bane wrote: post #8
dshipper wrote: post #5

I'm the creator of DomainPolish which I threw together over the weekend. Aside from thanking the community in general, and Iain in particular I just want to let all of you know that if you have any questions about the service just email me at dan@danshipper.com and I will be glad to answer them. Thanks again!

Fantastic idea. I just talked it over with my co-founder and we will definitely be using this service in the future. Can you discuss a little how you source the focus groups? Are they free volunteers? Folks at a mall? It might be helpful to understand a bit about how web-savvy they might be.

All of the reviewers are from http://mturk.amazon.com. My thought process is that because your site is online for ANYONE to access your message must be clear for anyone that looks at it. A big problem that I've had getting feedback is that anyone I get it from is either a friend of mine, or knows a lot about websites. It can be really difficult to reach the "average user" which, I think, is the value of a service like this.
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