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Review my startup, joday.com

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Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by achal »

Looks really interesting. I love Pandora and having seen this I realize I really want Pandora for video. Would be great to have more Pandora like features -- specifically, videos recommended based on likes/dislikes of other videos, and being able to view videos without any past information. You could do this, for example, by showing popular videos for people who haven't logged in, and then customizing from there.

Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by hobo_mark »

joday wrote: post #3
cowls wrote: post #2

I dont like being forced to log in with Facebook. Also typo on the front page: uploded -> uploaded :)

Thanks @cowls. My reasons for forcing Facebook login is to know more about my user in order to serve the relevant/personalize content. It's a chicken/egg situation...

I believe people would be less turned off if you showed them a glimpse of what's behind that wall, a pretty picture of a lake tells me NOTHING at all, even a screenshot (slightly blurred if you want) would go a long way towards letting me decide if it would be worth signing in. As it stands now the default reaction is 'nothing to see here, move along'.

Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by RossM »

First impressions: the background image that took ~20 seconds to load - with white text on a white background that slowly revealed - it felt a little like 56k internet and I nearly left the page. I'd consider setting an alternative background colour behind the image?

Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by joday »

pgsandstrom wrote: post #10

The text is mangled for me both in firefox and chrome. For some reason it looks okay in chrome incognito mode. It appears like this even with all extensions disabled. "100_hours_of_videos_are_uploded_to_youtube_every_minute! which_one_would_you_atch?"

most likely due to adblock, I will try to reproduce it and fix. thanks for you help,

what did you think about the site and concept?

Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by joday »

RossM wrote: post #16

First impressions: the background image that took ~20 seconds to load - with white text on a white background that slowly revealed - it felt a little like 56k internet and I nearly left the page. I'd consider setting an alternative background colour behind the image?

Yes that image is heavy, I've converted it to png compressed but still not good... I will surely check it out...

what did you think about the site in general and concept?

Re: Review my startup, joday.com

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Post by joday »

hobo_mark wrote: post #14
joday wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks @cowls. My reasons for forcing Facebook login is to know more about my user in order to serve the relevant/personalize content. It's a chicken/egg situation...

I believe people would be less turned off if you showed them a glimpse of what's behind that wall, a pretty picture of a lake tells me NOTHING at all, even a screenshot (slightly blurred if you want) would go a long way towards letting me decide if it would be worth signing in. As it stands now the default reaction is 'nothing to see here, move along'.

hmmm... sure, I will a/b test out that...
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