It passes the jwz test...
What is the JWZ test?
http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
"How will this software get my users laid"
Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
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Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
#32It's probably too early but, when you have the users, you should put up a dashboard with how many people are using the service. You could have something like "2436 People Are More Romantic," that would 'prove' legitimacy and verify the your premise of the site. "Sign up and we'll send you ideas every few weeks at random intervals," sounds like "when we come up with an idea we'll send it out," it doesn't make me belie…
The counter is in the plan but is currently an embarrassingly low number (79 and counting!). Re: random intervals, we'll try to find a better way to express what happens, and as someone else suggested will show an example of what the email will look like. I think we'll also add a random suggestion to the front page.
Instead of:
Sign up and we'll send you ideas every few weeks at random intervals.
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How about:
Sign up and we'll keep your romance spontaneous by randomly sending you ideas every few weeks.
Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm so on the fence with the ads. I agree they clutter up the design. We've made the big $0.04 on the ads so far... I'd much rather send well formed and target recommendations with the suggestions. tl;dr - we'll probably kill them, but thought it would be cool to buy a beer with the proceeds.
I'd have thought you could make more from affiliate links on your recommendations.
Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
#34This is just an opinion, but if you need reminding to be thoughtful, you've already lost a lot of the essence of what thoughtfulness is all about. Being given suggestions about how to be thoughtful further removes the 'thought' from the so called 'thoughtful' act. Though I haven't signed up, in technical terms I'm sure its a fair achievement for a weekend project, however I really think it misses the mark in an area…
> For example: you're limiting this service to romantic thoughtfulness, completely ignoring being thoughtful to people with whom your intended users might have a non-romantic relationship.
I disagree completely. Being too scattershot is much worse than limiting your market.
Clear focused shipping tool is much better than a disorganized mess. Besides, there's time to expand/pivot as well if the inital idea is a success.
Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
#35Actually had a similar idea a few years back and did a bunch of research. Two big things came up:
1) The tension is making guys look good without "taking the thought out of thoughtfulness." 2) How many new and unique suggestions are you really going to be able to give? After ten or so, they start to get stale or obvious.
Btw, re the counter you can fake the number just to see if it works/test something.
Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfulness service
#36You're missing an option:
I'm a [person] who wants to create thoughtful moments for my [Significant Other].
Not hard to add, and there are lots of good reasons to include non-gendered options.