i really like the idea. I like it so much that a few months back we launched a similar product. Check out POPrl.com you can also view stats (http://poprl.com/stats/0Kb) among other features. I would love to work together if you're interested.
Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
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Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#12Please don't take this the wrong way -- but you need a designer to go over your site. There are font inconsistencies, weird graphics, and the color scheme doesnt work well in its current implementation. I've been guilty of this as well, but your site would be better without any graphics (just text/css) than with poor graphics. Some other notes: - Less Is More. You dont need that much text on the homepage. It would be…
I had similar issues with my site (though I think it looked a damn site better than yours), trying to read your site, my eye is just going all over the place.
I think you are killing usability by not making things clear and simple.
I used crowdspring to get a new design on my site. Costs a bit, but well worth the time and effort.
Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#13Nice, but I'm not sure how much "legs" it has in terms of being a business .
Thanks! I have ideas about how to monetize it like adding premium features and adding up-sell add-on services. I subscribe to the launch early and launch fast mentality :)
A URL pointer service with tracking metrics - smart idea, good version 1. I like that the metrics updated immediately after I clicked a link I'd made. The interesting part to me was that it showed relevant Twitter, delicious, etc traffic - for both the cli.gs link and the long URL. Signup was simple and professional. Ignore the people who are expecting a perfect version - you made it clear up front that you're not finished under the hood and haven't applied polish yet. I see you're going to have charts and graphs eventually; nice. I wonder, will you also pull client IP addresses through ip2geo to show maps of visitor traffic? Lots of possible features to add. Congrats on v1 - keep rolling out the reporting tools and polish. If you do, demand for your premium plan should fall into place.
Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#14it's brilliant for rickrolling and other nefarious activities finally I know hom many I got.
But the site design is quite horribly, just remove every element you specifically designed then it's going to be fine.
Remove: http://cli.gs/images/home-page-message.jpg http://cli.gs/images/cligs-logo-black.jpg http://cli.gs/images/home-page-register.jpg
But you could be succesful even if you don't remove those, design is not really a success criterium online.
Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#15Please don't take this the wrong way -- but you need a designer to go over your site. There are font inconsistencies, weird graphics, and the color scheme doesnt work well in its current implementation. I've been guilty of this as well, but your site would be better without any graphics (just text/css) than with poor graphics. Some other notes: - Less Is More. You dont need that much text on the homepage. It would be…
Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into fixing the design given your comments and the comments elswhere, perhaps using crowdspring as suggested.
Not validating is not bad. It's not essential either. Take google.com for example. And the delicious tags are not "stolen" but are the delicious.com badge.
Closing accounts: didn't think of that, but easy enough to add.
Editing and deleting cligs is coming.
Skip to content link is for mobile users. A proper mobile-optimized layout is coming that will be automatically used if a mobile UA is detected and this is a temporary measure. As a mobile net user, I find such links very helpful.
But I think you're missing something important here. You say "Right now your solution is not only replicating them on some level, but it does so in an inferior way." Tinyurl and is.gd do not offer anywhere near the service Cligs does in terms of analytics. I don't want to belittle them but they don't have top contend with user accounts and layout out a ton of data in a sensible way. So the current design of Cligs doesn't work but that's because it needs to do a lot more.
Thanks again.
Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#16Please don't take this the wrong way -- but you need a designer to go over your site. There are font inconsistencies, weird graphics, and the color scheme doesnt work well in its current implementation. I've been guilty of this as well, but your site would be better without any graphics (just text/css) than with poor graphics. Some other notes: - Less Is More. You dont need that much text on the homepage. It would be…
I had similar issues with my site (though I think it looked a damn site better than yours), trying to read your site, my eye is just going all over the place. I think you are killing usability by not making things clear and simple. I used crowdspring to get a new design on my site. Costs a bit, but well worth the time and effort.
Thanks for reminding me crowdspring. Interesting option!
Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please
#17I like it. How about allowing people to use the service before signing up? Obviously the data collected could be public.
I've debated this through-out the development process. Obviously the unique feature here is the private analytics data, and making some cligs public might confuse things.
It's something definitely on my mind but not sure how to deal with it.
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#18The idea behind it is one that has an obvious demand, so good for you if you find a way to make money off it. However, there are a couple of things I don't like about the site design itself: - The "skip to navigation menu and content" link at the top seems extraneous to me -- I'm not sure of how it looks on lower resolutions, but I can already see those parts of the page. - Using images for your titles. It's not just…
Thanks for the feedback. The skip link is for mobile users as I explained in another comment.
The images and whole design will be looked into from scratch.
Thanks again!
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#19Interesting concept ... I like it. URL shortening is definitely something early tech adopters use a lot (I'm not sure about the average Internet user). You've definitely spelled out the benefits on the home page–but I'll be totally honest: the website design is pretty bad. Simplify, get rid of that laser beam and handwriting font, and clean up the page. I think you could do some creative things to get traction ... fo…
Creativity is key as you say. I really like the plugin and extra features ideas. I'll see what about implementing them in a sensible way.
Thanks!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! I have ideas about how to monetize it like adding premium features and adding up-sell add-on services. I subscribe to the launch early and launch fast mentality :)
A URL pointer service with tracking metrics - smart idea, good version 1. I like that the metrics updated immediately after I clicked a link I'd made. The interesting part to me was that it showed relevant Twitter, delicious, etc traffic - for both the cli.gs link and the long URL. Signup was simple and professional. Ignore the people who are expecting a perfect version - you made it clear up front that you're not fi…
The country mapping is coming along with a lot of other analysis features.
It's V1 as you say and I wanted to get the ball rolling to get some data into the database so I can start working off that - real data is better than hypothetical data :)