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Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
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Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#22Pretty design, and nice concept overall but there doesn't seem to be any way to add certain kinds of information other than connecting social networking sites. I don't want to do that.
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#23Like the others have said, the design is good but I just don't know what I am getting from the site on first approach. I also don't like how the home page main call to action is Sign In, what am I signing into and why should I?
I expect the homepage to tell me how you are going to help me, not for me to find out how you can help me?
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#24Pretty design, and nice concept overall but there doesn't seem to be any way to add certain kinds of information other than connecting social networking sites. I don't want to do that.
Thanks for the feedback. We wanted to make it harder for people to add topics and industries only to get certain jobs. We will look into ways for user who don't want to connect their profile to social networking sites.
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#25I'm sorry I found it all very confusing. For me personally it failed the 5 second test - what is the site primarily about, and how can I extract 80% of its functionality quickest? I clicked on the Buy button and was no further forward. The design is very slick, but there's too many words on the front page, no obvious action button/s and no immediate examples of how this could benefit me.
May I ask you to try the 5 seconds test with my profile? https://www.workio.com/u/MjA3ZD/luca-hammer Does that work for you?
Not really. What problem are you trying to solve and what are the benefits to me? This is a much better splash page but the copy is still pretty bad - https://www.workio.com/about/
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#26Like the others have said, the design is good but I just don't know what I am getting from the site on first approach. I also don't like how the home page main call to action is Sign In, what am I signing into and why should I? I expect the homepage to tell me how you are going to help me, not for me to find out how you can help me?
Here is an older version of the homepage: https://skitch.com/lucahammer/eagkm/workio-hompage-old
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#27I'm sorry I found it all very confusing. For me personally it failed the 5 second test - what is the site primarily about, and how can I extract 80% of its functionality quickest? I clicked on the Buy button and was no further forward. The design is very slick, but there's too many words on the front page, no obvious action button/s and no immediate examples of how this could benefit me.
May I ask you to try the 5 seconds test with my profile? https://www.workio.com/u/MjA3ZD/luca-hammer Does that work for you?
I still found it every confusing, the main thing is:
Why is it a document editor? It's just asking a question yet I can edit a whole bunch of stuff for no reason.
Also, I don't think having the main navigation buttons in a small box in the top right works.
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#28Pretty design, and nice concept overall but there doesn't seem to be any way to add certain kinds of information other than connecting social networking sites. I don't want to do that.
Thanks for the feedback. We wanted to make it harder for people to add topics and industries only to get certain jobs. We will look into ways for user who don't want to connect their profile to social networking sites.
A way might be to simply limit the number of topics and industries a person can list, though that has its own downsides.
Just thinking of my own case, you won't get much of use from Facebook (I post pictures of kittens and cookie recipes), twitter (It's been nearly a year since I've tweeted anything) or Linkedin (I barely use it). You'd get more of use from HN, reddit or (especially) github, but it might be harder to extract useful information from those sources.
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I ask you to try the 5 seconds test with my profile? https://www.workio.com/u/MjA3ZD/luca-hammer Does that work for you?
Not really. What problem are you trying to solve and what are the benefits to me? This is a much better splash page but the copy is still pretty bad - https://www.workio.com/about/
We want to streamline work processes. If you need something done you have to find someone who is able to do it and has time. work.io takes care of this. You define what you need, say how much you want to pay and get the results. You don't need to interact with the providers. Less overhead and better results are your benefits.
Re: Show HN: A place to buy and sell services directly from each other
#30This is what I understand 1 minute after perusing your website.
1 - This is some sort of a marketplace where you can buy and sell expertise. Kinda like a Air bnb for odd jobs. Reminds me of a similar startup that tried that, but I cannot remember their name.
2 - The landing page's layout is a little confusing. I clicked on a couple of links and landed on your about page[1]. When you have a 90 second video explaining what your product is, why would you not put that on a landing page ? The call to action would be very easy for me. Click on the video and know more about you.
3 - Although you meant for people to click sign-in on the landing page, that action was not very obvious to me. You should look to prioritize 'Sign-up' not sign in. The fact that they are both green buttons that look alike does not help.
4 - Your key customer sign-up categories appear to be a buyer who gets services and a seller who markets his / her services. You might want to streamline signups to reflect that.
5 - The text overlay on the image is not very visible / readable. Have you considered switching the images to color on mouse-over ?
6 - Where is the submit button for 'Suggest a feature' under watercooler ?
7 - I don't quite get the watercooler part. Is it meant for users to share insights and that becomes part of the news ?
8 - What is your pricing ? Where can I see what cut you take and what I get in return ? What are people signing up for ?
9 - When I sign up, its not very clear to me that something happened on the screen. Its great that I am logged in, but the UI needs to do more to inform me about what just happened.
10 - A short tutorial on signing up would be great. The app asked me to add funds and I don't understand what for.
I like the idea. The presentation and the user flow could use a little work. Gather the feedback you get here and fine tune your site. Nice work.