Your site needs a 'Pleases & Sparkles' button.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155927/if-it-pleases-a...
Review my startup, Listnerd.com
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Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#22Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at:
It doesn't actually provide any value.
It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't already more readily available (and more useful) in other forms. There's this notion that people will carefully curate lists of things they care about, and it's true that they do, but only for a few days. There's no incentive to come back and maintain them because they aren't getting anything back out of it.
You can certainly say that I'm cynical and/or jaded from having built this and seen it first hand, but I think there's a reason why none of these sites ever stick. I don't believe it's due to them being built by bad engineers, or being implemented in a way that doesn't work, it's just that it's a feature and not a product.
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#23stormen, send me an email and I'll give you some original ideas to implement. I'm starting to get depressed seeing a well designed, well coded (probably) yet another list aggregator, music service, social whatever.
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#24You're using Which means mobile devices will not zoom out to display the screen as it appears on a desktop, which is what you do when you're using a responsive design. But you aren't using a responsive design, so on a phone it appears only showing 320px of the page, rendering it unviewable and unusable. Take that out OR implement a responsive design. Sorry not to give feedback about the idea, I don't really have any,…
Thanks for the input! We're hard at work with a mobile version (should have went mobile first...), but it's on its way - 2-3 weeks shy of a release. We're doing a responsive theme, but right now, everything just sucks. Sorry :(
If you need any help with that, give me a shout
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#25It looks like you don't escape content of submissions, allowing XSS attacks to be made.
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#26Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at: It doesn't actually provide any value. It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't al…
Let me add to what ctide has to say by asking this:
"What problem does it solve?"
Seriously, what problem are you solving? It has to fit in 2 sentences. If you can't come up with a concrete problem that this is solving, no one will pay for it.
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#27I'm posting this first, will give a review of the product as a 2nd comment:
1. The dropdowns for registering birthdate are very unusable since I can't type in them. Trying to search for the year I was born by scrolling is hard. Can you use a standard HTML dropdown?
2. After registering I got redirected to: http://www.listnerd.com/error/404
but I had filled out a title to a list I wanted to create, I thought it would create that list once I was registered.
3. When I clicked "Create List" from the 404 page, it redirected me to the login page. I just registered so I assumed I would be logged in.
4. After I tried to login I get redirected to: http://www.listnerd.com/?login=nserror
but since its a modal dialog I can barely read the error which shows up below it.
So it seems you may not have the non-social login/register side stuff completed but for obvious reasons I don't connect my networks to random sites :)
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#28Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at: It doesn't actually provide any value. It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't al…
May I ask, i felt the same way but I myself am not much of a facebooker who likes t share his life, post on twitter or post on pinterest.
Maybe its just me but all those ideas are the same arn't they ? They just need enough people to participate and it becomes fun, meaning its enough for people to come back. If people all left facebook there would be no reason to post status updates anymore, same goes for twitter. They dont actually have the kind of value that people are willing to open their wallets for (and people dont, im sure if facebook started to charge for their accounts many people would leave). In the case of listnerd isnt it the same. If the marketing efforts are good enough then why couldn't it follow the same trajectory as the other social sharing apps?
Personally I have always wondered why people want to share their life online and hence why I personally dont have an interest in social sharing apps but many people do. Now people are more open online then with their own families and this is just another different way to share so my question is what makes this different then any of the other social (post what im interested in) sites that have been so successful over the last couple of years ?
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#29Dude, absolutely love it. I've seen this a few times before but this one has huge potential. The product looks social. All it really needs is randomness".
Not sure what the word is, but best I can describe it is randomness. Link bait. Link cycle. Idk. Keep me going. I view one, okay. Don't make me hit back and type something else in. Take what I've seen already, suggest alternative content on the side, keep me clicking like YouTube does. Make me kill time before I even know what's happening.
Do that and you really have an amazing product. I could see myself wasting hours with stuff I'm interested in, just keep me going.
Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com
#30Speaking as someone who has built this product before, I think you'll run into the same outcome that my product, Well, Bagcheck, Listly, Listgeeks, and others end up at: It doesn't actually provide any value. It sounds really harsh, but unfortunately, that's the reality. People show up, make a few lists because it sounds fun, but you don't give anything back to them. You don't end up getting information that isn't al…
The thing you're missing from that list is thingist, which is my "lists" app.
Yes, it does provide value. Thingist has become my, and the few other people that have run into it's:
Photo sharing site
Bookmarking site
Music playlist site
Shopping list
Link aggregator
Blogging platform
Etc.
I've been keeping "songs I like" for almost two years, and it has replaced grooveshark or spotify for me.
So yes, lists do provide value.
(sadly I haven't worked on thingist much in the last few months. Depression is a bitch like that)