Ask YC: Please review my first startup, Soshiku

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Post by bazookaaa » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 7:41 PM UTC

Ask YC: Please review my first startup, Soshiku
soshiku.com

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Post by zacharye » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:23 PM UTC

First and foremost, awesome clean design. Also the copy on the homepage is very clear and concise. I know what it is, what it does and whether or not I might like to try it after about 10 seconds. Kudos.

Have it marked to dive in deeper later.

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Post by yan » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:29 PM UTC

Hah! I had the same idea in college, and even registered a domain name (ssure.com, as in pre.ssure.com). I was going to revolve it around the idea of assignments and work amounting to 'pressure' on you, and your job was to complete stuff and reduce this pressure.

Seems that this is implemented very well. Will check it out in a deeper fashion soonish.

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Post by jbenz » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:33 PM UTC

I take it the service is free? Slip the word "free" into the homepage content somewhere.

Great design. It look professional because it's so simple.

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Post by colinplamondon » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:40 PM UTC

Great design, forwarded the link to my little brother.

How do you make money? Book sales?

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Post by Raphael » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:42 PM UTC

You could sell this to a school. I am taking 3 classes, which means 3 different websites and several PDFs. It would be great to have everything in one place automatically in a web page plain text format.

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Post by aston » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:48 PM UTC

Very nice look. A pixel level gripe, for you: Can you get rid of the blue line fragments between the 'h' & 'i' and the 'i' & 'k' in the logo?

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Post by trickjarrett » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:49 PM UTC

Excellent design. Good implementation. Expand it to work projects or find a way to make it appeal to freelancers. Etc. :)

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Post by jcapote » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 8:57 PM UTC

trickjarrett wrote: post #8

Excellent design. Good implementation. Expand it to work projects or find a way to make it appeal to freelancers. Etc. :)

I think he'd be better off staying focused in the market he's in; there is already a TON of these for freelancers/work projects.

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Post by qaexl » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 9:01 PM UTC

I like the marketing material you have on the site to explain the different features. It looks patterned off of 37Signals, but hey, it works. I'm curious to what going up to random college students on campus and demoing the site to them on the spot would bring to you.

How are you planning to monetize this? Hitting up the PTA or college groups?