Girlfriends aside, the interface is fantastic. I would use this. Good job.
My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
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Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#52Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#53Something about this rubs me slightly wrong. I think it's "my girlfriend" and "My boyfriend" and "I know very little about programming, but I do know that his startup is awesome". I don't know the words to describe it, but it feels like a weird gender-in-CS thing. Anyone know more technical terms for this?
"An unrelated person of unspecified gender tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds"
better?
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#54Is anyone else disappointed to find that on a product demo, the top half of the comments page have nothing to do with the product?
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it unnecessary? Someone is using their female significant other's gender to promote their product. Just having his girlfriend make a video explaining his startup wouldn't be an issue - but having her make that video, then submitting an article that "hey, here's my GIRLFRIEND explaining my startup" makes it off as sex appeal. Since sexism in gaming is a hot thing topic right now, imagine if Spike TV was to adve…
Okay, I sort of get what you're saying but what if it was a gay man saying my boyfriend made this? Or a woman saying my boyfriend made this? What if it was his mom who made the video? Does that still invoke sex appeal to you? The problem here seems to be with your reaction to the word girlfriend and not actually based on anything other than her gender and status. I agree that the girlfriend part could have been left…
I think based on sexual preference you probably have different ideas of what "sex appeal" means and what your reaction to X word is.
That being said, titles are there to tell you what something is about, and to get you interested. This does both, and part of this example is surely sex appeal. You can debate whether it was intended, but that's how genders work.
Being blunt, how many readers with a sexual preference towards females considered whether or not the girlfriend in question was attractive when they landed on her Google+ page? I suspect the answer is greater than 0.
Gender plays a role in everything, it's human nature.
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#56It looks like either reddit has discovered HN, or someone figured out that injecting "girlfriend" into article titles garners loads of votes for reasons beyond my comprehension. It's pretty pathetic how effective of a baiting tactic it is, in terms of both title and content. This is the second time this week that I've seen a submission hit HN's frontpage that used their girlfriend to snatch votes, I seriously hope it…
The HN community has deemed this post relevant to the front page. Please be more respectful with your language. You can ponder the motives of this post in a more reasonable way without distasteful comments.
Respectful - agree with that.
But this: "The HN community has deemed this post relevant to the front page"
The HN community is only one part of something being on the front page. The other part is the admins who apparently (no transparency here btw.) can control what appears and also make it disappear as well.
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, I sort of get what you're saying but what if it was a gay man saying my boyfriend made this? Or a woman saying my boyfriend made this? What if it was his mom who made the video? Does that still invoke sex appeal to you? The problem here seems to be with your reaction to the word girlfriend and not actually based on anything other than her gender and status. I agree that the girlfriend part could have been left…
I think based on sexual preference you probably have different ideas of what "sex appeal" means and what your reaction to X word is. That being said, titles are there to tell you what something is about, and to get you interested. This does both, and part of this example is surely sex appeal. You can debate whether it was intended, but that's how genders work. Being blunt, how many readers with a sexual preference to…
>readers with a sexual preference towards females
Women are also conditioned to judge the competency of other women based on their appearance. This isn't relevant to the case at hand however. Personally I welcome a lot, lot more posts with women somehow in them because at the sheer mention of women in HN the thread jumps to the topic of gender and I don't see that changing until there are just a lot more women posting and being posted about.
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#58Your girlfriend thinks you're just a 'good friend'. Impedance mismatch.
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#59It looks like either reddit has discovered HN, or someone figured out that injecting "girlfriend" into article titles garners loads of votes for reasons beyond my comprehension. It's pretty pathetic how effective of a baiting tactic it is, in terms of both title and content. This is the second time this week that I've seen a submission hit HN's frontpage that used their girlfriend to snatch votes, I seriously hope it…
My girlfriend thinks you're wrong. So by law of girlfriends and internet, I should get a lot of votes for this comment
You got it.
Re: My girlfriend tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds
#60Despite the Reddit-esque linkbait title, I could understand the sentiment about someone being worried about doing a ShowHN themselves.
However, my problem with the video is that it didn't really add anything to the non-audio version of the same video currently on the homepage. It mentions the exporting, but doesn't show it. It speaks to responsive, but doesn't show it. I'm not sure if these features aren't baked in yet, but I didn't get anything out of the audio version that I didn't get from the non-audio one coupled with the features page. In fact, the voiceover distracted me from what was actually going on with the demo (particularly looking at the weird stuff going on at the bottom) because it wasn't talking about what was going on as it was happening nor the extensibility of the features being shown, but rather just spoke to the product as a whole from someone that seemingly doesn't know what the scope/final product will be.
Since she's non-technical, it probably would have sold viewers a lot more if she'd been using your tool to create her own page to show just what a breeze it actually is to use.
In the same vein, I think your website could really use some work; the video of the product should go at the top, not the weird of the skewed color-picker (that doesn't need to be there at all, really). Your features should also be on the homepage.
Also, considering the current crop of alternatives in this realm and the more advanced options those have (http://webflow.com/ in particular), I think it would benefit you to show your pipeline and what people can expect down the road.