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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.
I love HN because of meetups like these!
Please 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 t…
API still important, if not critical, in my eyes.
If you havent already, I would do a benchmark of Google Analytics and other free analytics companies and try to see what are the important metrics. "Hits" doesnt really cut it if your differentiation is analytics.
Anywho, Good luck. I think if you clean up the design some, that itself will make the service a lot more attractive/usable and you will see increased activity. Once you get some traction you'll be able to really drive home the rest.
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.
Interesting. Drop me a message at http://blog.cli.gs/contact and let's talk. I love HN because of meetups like these!
(you guys)++
I 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.
it'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 no…
Brian
Please 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 t…
Please 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 t…
Good idea (especially if you can persuade somebody to pay you). Design suggestion: wording on the left hand side is too verbose. You should think about how to get the idea across more quickly, maybe as a three-step pseudo-cartoon. On the downside, the stuff about SEO makes it sound like your site's primary purpose is evil, and that's sad.
The 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!
Please 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 t…
Two nice rounded image headers, one for each, large ENTER URL HERE box, prompt for registration on entering the URL. What's so complicated?
this is going to sound harsh, but looking at your site, I couldn't care less. I go to a lot of sites, regularly share URLs with people, I'm your target audience, and I'm not interested. It's overwought. It's not that your frontpage needs to do a lot, it's that the page sucks.
If I visit, I want to submit a URL and then get analytics on the flipside. Everything that isn't related to that task is extraneous.
Why not just nuke the entire page, put in a bigass textarea for copying in a url, a submit button, and two small rounded image boxes describing, respectively, URL Shortening and Analytics? You'd have a site that's approximately 10 trillion and a half times better.
It's not that anyone's missing something, it's that your site fails to get across why your site is useful.