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Circle opens doors to global audience
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Re: Circle opens doors to global audience
#12If I can measure your priorities by viewing your site, it appears that your #1 priority is a certain look-and-feel (as dabeeeenster put it "photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach"). Along these lines, you have also purchased "circle.com" - do you read Dave Eggers too?
Your #2 priority must be investment, since the "Management", "Board", and "Investors" sections of the site are the only ones that contain any actual information.[1] You have some impressive backers and impressive funding. In my experience, companies that are more excited about how much funding they have raised are less likely to succeed than companies that are excited about the product they are building.
To sum it up: I am unimpressed.
[1] - Learning that you are "excited about bitcoin" isn't information. Because of that excitement have you decided to offer bank accounts denominated in bitcoin? To offer a tool allowing merchants to accept bitcoin for daily purchases? To create a new offering that will supplant bitcoin? Look -- we're ALL "excited" about bitcoin: it's an interesting innovation. Being excited about it isn't news.
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#13This homepage is fucking terrible. HOW CAN I USE YOUR PRODUCT? What do I need? Credit card? Bitcoin address? Fiat bank account? PayPal? Is it a joke? "We believe in intuitive design and excellent customer support"! A design so intuitive I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. Oh but you have some big depth of field photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach. Brilliant. Just tell me in 1 sentence what you do…
Have you considered that engaging customers on an emotional level might be more effective than doing so in a utilitarian way?
Re: Circle opens doors to global audience
#14Not a good sign when https://www.circle.com shows up as a blank page. EDIT: OK, it shows up now. I am still just as unclear on what the product is.
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#15First: interesting company and concept. I would love to see this go further, will be keeping my eye on it. Second: who's idea was it to implement that wretched parallax effect on their homepage? Not only is it a tawdry but it gives me vertigo which is usually a rare experience on the modern web and has thus-far created a very negative experience for me. I stopped looking at the homepage and just read the wikipedia ar…
Ditto on the vertigo. Shocking to think this effect was deliberate.
Also, I'm not sure what pictures of young people (at a cottage?) has to do with their product.
Re: Circle opens doors to global audience
#16Not a good sign when https://www.circle.com shows up as a blank page. EDIT: OK, it shows up now. I am still just as unclear on what the product is.
https://www.circle.com/user-agreement and https://www.circle.com/user-agreement still appear to be empty though.
EDIT: Okay, I can see them now.
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#17US bank cards only ? This is "global" in the "World Series" sense of the word, for the moment.
Most credit/debit cards globally, mostly US bank accounts only.
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#18Less marketing jargon, more actual content. What I find particularly fascinating is that bitcoin is mentioned a bunch of times passively without anyone ever saying "this is a bitcoin bank". It's like your supposed to just intuit the function of the site from a bunch of vague adjectives and adverbs like "everywhere" and "instant".
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#19How retarded is this, first of all, reading through their privacy terms, I barfed a bit. The reason people buy fucking bitcoin is to stay anon, with Circle, practically everybody down to your grandmother in the 3rd knee know that you just purchased bitcoins.
Secondly, Circle, really? Was Square taken? I would prefer square.
It's like making money on the face of stupid people. Very original.
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#20This homepage is fucking terrible. HOW CAN I USE YOUR PRODUCT? What do I need? Credit card? Bitcoin address? Fiat bank account? PayPal? Is it a joke? "We believe in intuitive design and excellent customer support"! A design so intuitive I have no fucking idea what the hell is going on. Oh but you have some big depth of field photos of hot 19 year old girls on a beach. Brilliant. Just tell me in 1 sentence what you do…
Have you considered that engaging customers on an emotional level might be more effective than doing so in a utilitarian way?
I don't think one sentence is too much to ask, I hit the back button because I couldn't figure out what their product did within a short amount of time.