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Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by hwijaya »

I think design/usability are acceptable. At least i can understand it after playing with it for less than 1 minute.

The only thing that you need to be careful of is probably a market-risk. This type of site is platform model and usually run into chicken-and-egg problems, therefore, takes longer than you imagined to take-off.

Overall, the idea is great. It certainly has potentials. Keep it going! ;)

Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by justlearning »

i like the logical separation of the page using light colors. I think, although you may be tempted to add more rows to the "top tutors", it looks good as is at the moment - may be couple of rows more. The pound sign beside the top-tutors is very 'diggy'. may be small image size? may be you should think those rows in terms of reddit-like than digg.

..and could you share your web-framework/db/architecture details?

Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by ashleyw »

You should probably do it in US dollars rather than British sterling.

Firstly because more people know dollars, but also because it's a higher number, which I'd think would attract more answers; £10 vs $16…only to Britons would they seem the same amount.

Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by mechanical_fish »

caffeine wrote: post #9

Your "about us" page is full of lorem ipsum. Doesn't inspire much confidence in the company...

Worse, the lorem ipsum isn't aligned with the rest of the elements on the page. ;) It isn't even doing its job!

Also: your teachers have areas of "expetise". Normally I strive not to flame people's spelling, but when you're building a site to sell expertise to people...

Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by mechanical_fish »

quizbiz wrote: post #15

Why use this when I can type my question into Google and get ranked answers from answers.com? But I do like the design and interface, a lot.

Heh. Because the answers that come back from answers.com won't be the answers to your specific homework problems. ;)

Or has Google gotten that good, while I wasn't looking?

[attempts to cut and paste equation from a question into Google to see what comes back]

Um, is there a reason why I can't select the text of a question on this site we're reviewing? Is this a bug, or is it some sort of "feature" that just happens to drive me right up the wall?

Anyway, the answer is: there really are a hell of a lot of pre-solved equations out there in the Google database. So maybe you're right. But I suspect that, even if the answer is out there in Google, there's still value in the service of locating that answer and presenting it to the questioner on a doily.

Re: Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

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Post by mgrouchy »

Honestly, I think the idea is pretty neat. The website looks pretty good and for general answers I think this model may work. That being said, if a university student posted an assignment question on here and then answered that question exactly as on an assignment, that is tantamount to cheating. I know when I was in university(which wasn't too long ago) my professors were on top of plagiarism and such, and tend to watch for these type of things.

With a site like this, it doesn't stay a students best kept secret for long and once the cat is out of the bag its only going to cause trouble for students using it.

That being said, its a pretty good idea, I'd be interested to see how this pans out.

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