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Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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Did you come across Well in your research? http://well.io/

I'd like to throw another social list-agregation service in the pool: https://getamen.com

Yeah, but it's not directly comparable. They let you rate stuff, but it's not very granular. It's just "amens"; not up- and down-votes, or even a 0-10 scale, like we offer. It's quite one-dimensional.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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how is this different from https://bagcheck.com/ ?

As I also answered for Amen and Well.io, their site is quite one-dimensional - as it only offers "likes" (upvotes). There's no granularity in the rating scale. We offer up- and down-votes, in addition to a 0-10 scale. I think that's quite important for a social list site, atleast if you want to be serious about rating and ranking stuff.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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You're using Which means mobile devices will not zoom out to display the screen as it appears on a desktop, which is what you do when you're using a responsive design. But you aren't using a responsive design, so on a phone it appears only showing 320px of the page, rendering it unviewable and unusable. Take that out OR implement a responsive design. Sorry not to give feedback about the idea, I don't really have any,…

Thanks for the input! We're hard at work with a mobile version (should have went mobile first...), but it's on its way - 2-3 weeks shy of a release. We're doing a responsive theme, but right now, everything just sucks. Sorry :(

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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Here's the problem with crowdsourced lists: 100 Greatest presidents: #1 is Richard Nixon http://www.listnerd.com/list/top-presidents-of-the-usa You don't get serious lists. There's always trolls, or people that are uninformed adding their 2-cents.

Hmm.. I don't agree with you. There's always going to be trollers, but look at reddit; they managed to crowdsource links. If you can crowdsource links (with all the hazzle of Indian SEO-spammers, bloggers wanting traffic and corporations wanting to push their products), lists should be do-able too. But I acknowledge there's a real challenge there, for sure. Thank you for your input :)

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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I'm hacking together something very similar to this right now, actually...have you considered doing a Pinterest for lists? Instead of the user curation component, doing more of a "make lists for me that are public on my wall"? Like, "Countries I've been To," "Movies I Want to See," "2013 New Years' Resolutions." Etc.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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Sorry if this sounds harsh, but why would anyone ever use your site?

It's well designed and does a lot of the marketing, web-design-y stuff right, but I can't see any reason why I'd be motivated to start using your service.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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You're using Which means mobile devices will not zoom out to display the screen as it appears on a desktop, which is what you do when you're using a responsive design. But you aren't using a responsive design, so on a phone it appears only showing 320px of the page, rendering it unviewable and unusable. Take that out OR implement a responsive design. Sorry not to give feedback about the idea, I don't really have any,…

Thanks for the input! We're hard at work with a mobile version (should have went mobile first...), but it's on its way - 2-3 weeks shy of a release. We're doing a responsive theme, but right now, everything just sucks. Sorry :(

Yes, so you need to take that meta tag out of the header. Then it will look find, just really small, on a phone.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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how is this different from https://bagcheck.com/ ?

As I also answered for Amen and Well.io, their site is quite one-dimensional - as it only offers "likes" (upvotes). There's no granularity in the rating scale. We offer up- and down-votes, in addition to a 0-10 scale. I think that's quite important for a social list site, atleast if you want to be serious about rating and ranking stuff.

Why the downvote? The up/down or a 0-10 scale is a UX choice in the voting mechanism, but I am not sure how that is a major differentiator.

Feedback: Since your intention is to recommend relevant items you might want to optimize the referrer experience. It took a lot of clicks to go selecting a list to accessing the relevant content. E.g it took me 3 clicks to find http://www.listnerd.com/item/savant-1, and then I gave up on finding the artists music or a link to it on that page. On bagcheck it takes 1 click to access the relevant referral link.

Re: Review my startup, Listnerd.com

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Sorry if this sounds harsh, but why would anyone ever use your site? It's well designed and does a lot of the marketing, web-design-y stuff right, but I can't see any reason why I'd be motivated to start using your service.

It really feels like the product first anti-pattern. The first thing you should think about if you want to create a serious business is "Who is my market? What am I selling? Why would they want to buy it?". You don't have to have a boring answer to those questions, you just need an answer.
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