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Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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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 believe http://bit.ly also works on similar lines: http://switchabit.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/bitly/

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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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.

I would do it for sure. Most people probably wouldn't care about the links traffic being public, but they will be turned off by a registration process.

Agreed. How about making non sign up links only last a finite length of time?

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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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…

All the design you need in a site like this: http://is.gd/ Then one button for analytics.

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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Just have one text field for the url you want to shorten. When the user clicks submit, then give two urls. One is the shortened url, the other is for analytics. Make the analytics url publicly accessible and have a button on that page to make it private -- for a cost!

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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I would do it for sure. Most people probably wouldn't care about the links traffic being public, but they will be turned off by a registration process.

Agreed. How about making non sign up links only last a finite length of time?

That would make me not use the service. If I'm short-linking on my blog or Twitter account, I want to know that if someone clicks that link 2 years from now, it will still function.

I actually would be curious to see how many people clicked it (and when) and I usually wouldn't care if other people saw it as well.

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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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…

Yeah, so your message is URL Shortener + Analytics. 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 frontp…

http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi

Re: Ask HN: Feedback on my new web app please

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Yeah, so your message is URL Shortener + Analytics. 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 frontp…

http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi

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