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Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by spencerfry » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #47

As everyone's said, site and idea look great! suggestion - I'm not sure if you have this as a feature (I'd suspect you do) -- but allowing employees to vote on their perks would be great. Like if when company HR managers (or who ever sets team budgets) set the budget, they could go to your site, input that data, and know how many "points" (essentially dollars) worth of perks they can afford. Then employees could log…

Thank you. I really appreciate it.

That's a very interesting idea. We've had some similar thoughts that I think we'll begin to start incorporating over the next few months. We want employees to have more involvement in the benefits, but at the same time make sure that the employer can customize Uncover for the type of culture they want to create. For example, we have some beta customers that have books clubs at their company and are now using Uncover to facilitate that.

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by spencerfry » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

peterjancelis wrote: post #42

Very nice work! Could you maybe test switching the left and right part of the above the fold part? When I visited I started reading something about Sushi making and assumed you were teaching sushi classes.

Hah. You bring up a good point. We'll definitely do some A/B testing as we begin to have more visitors to our website. As we only went live an hour ago, we didn't accumulate enough homepage data to begin testing our assumptions.

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by JoeKM » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

My only concern with benefit programs like these is if I'm earning less income because the company is allocating money for benefits I may not need.

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by mharis » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Brilliant!

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by swat535 » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

I love the simplicity of this website! It also tackles a good problem employers have.

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by matsandre » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

MatthewB wrote: post #10

Great job! Looking back, you'll see that learning to code was one of the best decisions you made. One minor thing - it took me about 7-10 seconds to understand what your product is. I should be able to understand within 2 seconds. You should put in big letters towards the top: "Employee Recognition Program" or something a little more sales-y.

+1

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by Kiro » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

metaphorm wrote: post #18

I really like the idea for this company. Seems cools. In the true spirit of "Show HN" though, how about sharing some code?

True spirit?

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by beebs93 » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:46 PM UTC

Just going to spit out what first came into my head:

- Pretty nice looking website for rolling sushi! - I can sign up to reward my employees by learning to roll sushi? Something is not right... - Oh, employee rewards program - cool! - Hmmm, I wonder if they break rewards into categories like "Developers" so I could redeem things like GitHub, DropBox or MT/RackSpace plans.

All in all, nice looking site and pretty impressive for a first go at coding.

Best of luck!

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by beachstartup » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

JoeKM wrote: post #53

My only concern with benefit programs like these is if I'm earning less income because the company is allocating money for benefits I may not need.

chances are that money wouldn't have been spent on your income, because of taxes (income tax, payroll tax). it would have been spent on something else that falls under the category of "nice things" but is tax-deductible.

Re: Show HN: I learned to code to launch my new startup

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Post by spencerfry » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

beebs93 wrote: post #58

Just going to spit out what first came into my head: - Pretty nice looking website for rolling sushi! - I can sign up to reward my employees by learning to roll sushi? Something is not right... - Oh, employee rewards program - cool! - Hmmm, I wonder if they break rewards into categories like "Developers" so I could redeem things like GitHub, DropBox or MT/RackSpace plans. All in all, nice looking site and pretty impr…

Hah. You're the second person to think we help you learn to roll sushi! Totally valid feedback. I think we need to experiment in shifting the sign up to the left and presenting what we do a lot clearer.

As to being able to breakdown benefits/rewards into Groups of employees, that's on our roadmap. You can currently reward one or more people for going the extra mile, but we'd like to do more.