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My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Post by luccastera »

vuknje wrote: post #9
mattrandle wrote: post #4

Its fantastic & very entertaining. A true testament to what can be achieved with skill, knowledge, and an idea. Well done.

Thanks, dude.

vuknje, there is a typo on the url in your profile info. fyi.

Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Post by vuknje »

sabat wrote: post #5
aarontait wrote: post #3

Looks gorgeous. Where's the business model? You can't have a business without a way for it to make money.

All you need is a regular audience of visitors and you can make money. Take PlentyOfFish.com for instance. Revenues of more then $5 million per year, all ad-driven.

I'll put some ads for now. At this moment, I have no business model. I guess time will show what's best to do

Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Post by sabat »

vuknje wrote: post #7
sabat wrote: post #6

I like the idea a lot. I have no idea how you vote for a clip, though. You should make that dead obvious.

There are big green "vote" buttons under each video. They disappear if you have voted, and result is shown.

It's weird. Adblock seemed to be blocking them. No idea what filter I wrote that would have done that.

Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Post by pramodbiligiri »

Wow, nice idea and executed excellently. One week? I gather you are a webdev in your day job then? XHTML Strict, jquery etc...

A couple of suggestions: For about 20 secs I couldn't figure out what this site was. Maybe a helpful tagline close to the logo? The vertical list of arenas next to the videos jerks a bit as I hover. A little unsettling. Some extra margin or padding for those boxes should fix it.

Try some viral angle - "Tell a Friend" or something. Maybe a Gabbly box to chat with anyone else who is on at the same time.

Best of luck. I hope you don't get porned.

Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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Post by codeLullaby »

Nice concept, nice design. Great job vuknje.

But there is a bug in there. If you click multiple times fast enough(or if the same arena is opened in multiple tabs before i start voting ), it accepts each click as a valid vote.

Do not depend on UI components/client side script for validation.

And in UI, it says "New Arenas (1 - 10) " although it shows only 1-3 (/new.php)

Hope this helps. All the best vuknje.

Re: My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

#18

Post by sabat »

vuknje wrote: post #7
sabat wrote: post #6

I like the idea a lot. I have no idea how you vote for a clip, though. You should make that dead obvious.

There are big green "vote" buttons under each video. They disappear if you have voted, and result is shown.

OK, it's not adblock. There are now no voting buttons I can find anywhere on the site, either on the home page, or on arena pages. I tried in Firefox (2) and in IE (7).
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