Comes up completely blank for me. All white, no error, no nothing.
Released my startup MVP Outpost, begging for feedback
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Re: Released my startup MVP Outpost, begging for feedback
#22You might want to look into how you filter the tourism results. I'm from Regina, Canada and the tourism tab gives me tours in Rome, Boston and Bucharest - they seem to grab every listing that contains the keyword 'Regina'...
Re: Released my startup MVP Outpost, begging for feedback
#23Smart concept, I really like the premise. Two negative points.
First, once it found results for my location, it just sat there with the loading circlet spinning perpetually. Some other locations didn't have that problem (eg San Francisco results loaded after a short while).
Second, the Google maps styling is absolutely horrendous. It's so bad that I'd never use your service because the maps are terrible to visually consume. It reminds me of the flat design style (for GMaps) that someone posted here recently.
Also, figure out a way to get yourself a better domain (as challenging and expensive as that is these days).
Outpost.com used to be Cyberian Outpost, back in the early dotcom days. Fry's owns it now, but they're not using it and there's little traffic still flowing to the domain (and they're probably never going to use it). Maybe they'd sell it.
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#24Really like the What's Around Me button. It's a good way to immediately show people what outpost can do for them. Before clicking it I wasn't sure, as the homepage copy is a bit vague.
This was definitely a great feature. One suggestion though.
When you first hit the button it says: "0 results found for City, State, Country". It properly fills in the location, but NEVER say there are 0 results found, unless that's actually the case. It takes about 2 to 3 seconds for the result counter to update (I'm on a fast line so I assume that's purely backend). In that 2 or 3 seconds, I nearly clicked away, thinking there were no results.
I would look into the most efficient way to let the person know instantly that there are or are not results (the accuracy can be refined over X seconds, but what's critical is knowing there are results).
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#25Feedback: With nocript I got no info on the screen at all until I allowed parsecdn.
Maybe leave some kind of thingy?
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#26I have no clue what any of this shit on the front page means.
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#27I like it! I though it had a simple, smooth, and intuitive interface. I tried my local zip code.
What is your business model?
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#28I agree with the points about the "about" screen being much more clear as to what you do than the front page, and that the styling on the maps is horrible... really REALLY don't like looking at it.
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#29It would be great to display the prices in the local currency, especially when selecting the "What's around me" link. Otherwise just having a currency selection option would be good
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#30I like it! I though it had a simple, smooth, and intuitive interface. I tried my local zip code. What is your business model?
Ideally we want to take a small fee per transaction we send to affiliates and not from the user (so the user always pays what he's offered)