Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
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Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
#2It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
#3It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
Yes, an email address to answer a frivolous online poll is pretty extreme.
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
#4I don't consider myself experienced enough to give anybody advice on startups, but it seems to me that programmers should pick up non-CS skill-sets. That way, two things may happen.
- Your startup won't be a clone of about 500 other startups.
- You will be solving real-world problems for sectors who don't receive the attention of most programmers.
In other words, follow Octopart's lead.
I know this wasn't a review of your startup, I just don't think this survey idea has any viability anymore.
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#5It looked pretty terrible to me. Um, congratulations on making a polling web site I guess??
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#6What does the world think? Survey your friends, colleagues, customers and millions of Twitter users!
Sounds like a sales pitch, not a slogan. It's also too long. Just a thought.
Simply 'What does the world think?' might be better.
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#7It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
I can understand why you might want people to enter an email address (for validation/more authentic results etc...) and if you're going to take that approach you sell it to your audience - tell them what the benefits are.
Also say that the email address requires validation. I put in a fake address and of-course my vote didn't get counted. If I knew up-front it was to be validated I probably would have entered a correct one.
Having said all that I don't agree with email validation. It doesn't ensure unique votes. Can you explain why you choose it?
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#8It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
I can understand why you might want people to enter an email address (for validation/more authentic results etc...) and if you're going to take that approach you sell it to your audience - tell them what the benefits are. Also say that the email address requires validation. I put in a fake address and of-course my vote didn't get counted. If I knew up-front it was to be validated I probably would have entered a corre…
Also some of your buttons perform JavaScript operations, some load new pages - with the same design and sitting next to each other. It's always best to be consistent and have some sort of icon or UI element to define which actions keep you on the same page.
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#9It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
Interestingly, one of the main criticisms I originally received was that you could vote without providing an email address!
Re: Ask HN: What do you think of my new site?
#10It required me to enter a name and email so I didn't bother voting.
I can understand why you might want people to enter an email address (for validation/more authentic results etc...) and if you're going to take that approach you sell it to your audience - tell them what the benefits are. Also say that the email address requires validation. I put in a fake address and of-course my vote didn't get counted. If I knew up-front it was to be validated I probably would have entered a corre…
I agree that email validation is flawed in terms of ensuring uniqueness, so this is something I may drop and insist users create an account. One thing I have considered in the mean time is allowing registered users to hide non-signed in participants.