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Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

#11
You should look into buying "housefeed.com" and perhaps renaming your site to that.

That's what I thought I saw as your name upon first glance. My brain unconsciously filled in the details: "Oh, feeding people at a house, 'housefeed.com', makes sense".

Also, you get the benefit of the "feed" connotation: a feed of pictures of people's meals at their houses.

Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

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I would love for this to succeed. However, for now, one can't book or host a meal yet -- correct?

Btw, noticed you can like your own pictures. Not a biggy, but probably not what you were looking for. Also, why shouldn't I be able to upload multiple pictures for one meal?

Yes you can like your own photos. It may be something I stop now but early on it wasn't a big deal.

And so far no one has requested that feature. It is a good idea though

Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

#16
It's like throwing a dinner party and inviting the guests to come see how you've neatly arranged the pots and pans on the floor, in the fashion of a stove. "It's fantastic," they'll say, "Perhaps you should include some carrots." "This is wonderful feedback!", you'll think, as you as begin to slice carrots for your floor-bound pots.

Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

#18

It's like throwing a dinner party and inviting the guests to come see how you've neatly arranged the pots and pans on the floor, in the fashion of a stove. "It's fantastic," they'll say, "Perhaps you should include some carrots." "This is wonderful feedback!", you'll think, as you as begin to slice carrots for your floor-bound pots.

A witty quip, but probably wrong. The author's conclusion was important:

> Launch your [site] before you core functionality is done. You’ll fix the bugs you don’t know you have.

Some places can't afford to do that - things where lives are at stake (medical, engineering, etc) or companies who don't get a chance at do-overs at all.

But for most small ventures, you're in for a much bigger risk of abandoning the project by delaying endlessly than you are of having a huge rush of potential users, not being able to serve them, being unable to fix that, and having a reputation for that stick.

And most people building medical devices, engineering, or rolling something out for a huge corporation with a lot of buzz know who they are. The post is good advice for the rest of everyone else.

Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

#19

Changing the background color to FFFFFF instantly gives the site a cleaner look. I want to see this succeed.

Thanks! Question on the #fff- would you keep the border around the photos white too? It seems like too much white to me. What does everyone else think?

I am not sure about the border, I just clicked off the background color through Chrome developer tool, and liked it better. You have a good concept, btw.

Re: Launch Your Site Too Soon

#20
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Changing the background color to FFFFFF instantly gives the site a cleaner look. I want to see this succeed.

I second that. Please change the background to FFFFFF, it looks much more professional. rokhayakebe, are you a designer? Would you be willing to have a look at my site - grepfiles.com? If you do get a chance, please email me any feedback at grepfiles@gmail.com

Hi, I am not a designer, tsycho. I emailed you.
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