Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
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Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#2First criticism - I have to create an account with you guys to see if there is anything of interest to me in my part of the UK.
Any chance of finding some way of indicating the density of local suppliers before I sign up?
I would prefer to use OpenID or OpenAuth to creating yet another username and password combination plus I have no way of telling if you will keep them secure.
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#3I like your landing page.
Maybe you should have titled it Ask HN: Review our startup, Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK (or something along those lines).
Plenty of guys from the UK here (I'm not :) ), good luck !
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#4Love the design of your page.
However, I shouldn't have to signup to see if there is anything useful beyond the signup page; to see the actual content. You've lost me right there. I'd bet if you let the content show before a signup, you'd get far more (and far more meaningful) signups.
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#5Like others have said. I want to know if there's any local suppliers before signing up.
This isn't useful to me because I'm not in the UK currently, but my father would be interested, so I wanted to see if there's anything near him before I send him the link. Not interested in signing up to find out and plus I'd have to enter a false (my Dad's) postcode to do so.
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#6Love the design of your page. However, I shouldn't have to signup to see if there is anything useful beyond the signup page; to see the actual content. You've lost me right there. I'd bet if you let the content show before a signup, you'd get far more (and far more meaningful) signups.
Even more frustrating when the email hasn't come through after 10 minutes
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#7I agree with what others have said, and on the signup front, I think a facebook login might be a good idea. You could then pull the location info that you need, reducing the info the user needs to put in to practically nothing. Authorise facebook and start buying almost immediately.
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#8I like your landing page. Maybe you should have titled it Ask HN: Review our startup, Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK (or something along those lines). Plenty of guys from the UK here (I'm not :) ), good luck !
Thanks very much. We've renamed the post to clarify what we do.
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#9Love the design of your page. However, I shouldn't have to signup to see if there is anything useful beyond the signup page; to see the actual content. You've lost me right there. I'd bet if you let the content show before a signup, you'd get far more (and far more meaningful) signups.
Even more frustrating when the email hasn't come through after 10 minutes
That's a weird one. We're using Mailchimp to handle signups right now & it looked like they went down briefly just now. Should all be fixed now :)
Re: Review our startup Farmly.net - buy fresh food in the UK
#10It looks nice and I honestly love the idea (I'm UK based) but you have no contact information, use a service to hide your registration information and have no privacy policy yet you want my name, email address and postcode? That's not a fair exchange.
What is the legal status of your startup as this will have an impact on the information you legally need to have on your site.