Jizie? How'd you come up with this name? It's absurd.
I find the name great because it's easy to remember. and un forgettable
as a bonus, you can turn it into a pr0n site if this fails.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an About page, which is somehow more confusing than having nothing at all: http://www.jizie.com/home/about
can you tell me a little more about whats confusing besides the grammar and spelling would love some feed back.
Well, you recognize that the spelling and grammar are messed, fix it! You know what they say about execution. Spelling and grammar are part of that.
Your 'about' page still says nothing about what the user should expect when they are logged into the site. All you tell is about why you had the idea, which quite frankly doesn't make a ton of sense to me, and then that "Linkedin.com is the myspace of our generation and jizie.com is the facebook".
HOW! WHAT! You've given people absolutely nothing with regards to what the site will do. Even if you just give one or two examples of how your (hopefully soon to be renamed) site is different. What will it allow you to do.
I see in another thread that you responded that 'without a co-founder...'. Please don't make excuses. There are tons of people who have built successful sites without co-founders. I'm sure there are also lots of people who grew up in 'bad neighbourhoods', just as there are people in technology who grew up in the farming communities where they didn't have access to a technology community.
I know I'm sounding like a downer but I want you to get a bit angry and realize you need to up your game. You've made it further than most have, just by building something and releasing it. It's a sad statement of our industry full of dreamers, but it's the truth. So give yourself a small pat on the back. Then look at the road ahead, and how long and hard it is. Take one step, then another, stay focused, and keep going.
Congratulations. All your hard work to get to this point is nothing in comparison to what you've got ahead of you. (That's a compliment, though I know it doesn't sound like one).
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#14For those who saw this, ignored it or didn't find why it might be compelling, check out the founders profile on Jizie.
http://www.jizie.com/users/rbatista
Richard! Put that link on your homepage. Show people what they'll see using the site. Goddamnit man! It's beautiful!
I still have no idea why I'd use it, but at least now I can see the quality of build you can put out. This is the stuff that gets people interested.
Re-do your homepage. Put a big link that shows people what their profile would look like. Or put the profile up somewhere.
From your homepage, I had no idea if after creating an account I'd just be sent to a 'coming' soon link or something, because you never said what it did.
The thing you should be putting into your homepage (some of which you can take as a lesson in marketing), 'show your work, don't just talk about it'.
Also, I found a bit of a bug. Clicking on one of your links in your portfolio, results in an image that is stretched, but then clicking the back button fixes it.