Could you guys please review my start-up/website(exaggerated.com)?

I have fully funded the development of the site so far. It was launched a few weeks ago and has not been promoted yet, so it is still fairly confidential. I am now working on optimizing the site to fasten the loading of pages.

It's a lot of work by the way (over a year and a half of development.)

I would like to draw more traffic. What should I do from now onwards ? buy ads ? launch a thread on reddit ? ask each and every design blog I know to kindly talk about the site ?

I'd love to have some piece of advice from your community

cheers, Nathan

many thanks for the compliments.

The design was done by Julien Morel,(joolz.fr), the same guy who did the previous design of Matt Mullenweg(http://ma.tt/). he has done a lot of great design for a few french sites as well. You should check his portfolio. He is a nice guy. He is now working on a costumed page for my twitter account (@exaggerated_com).

Content creation has been a nightmare to produce this far. Spotlights are easy to generate, cause they are aggregated live in our admin database and are all pre-populated.

Original content however is something really difficult to produce on a daily basis. I had a redditor to produce the articles, I used to pay him like 800$per month. but he cashed in the money before xmas and never re-appeared... I have just found a great content provider now who is charging me 5$/article.

Definitely creating a startup has been hard as hell!

I am a private banker/ portfolio manager in Geneva Switzerland. I founded the site just for fun during my spare time.

glad you enjoy it.

The article links on the right are scrolling down too fast. A couple of times by the time I read the headline, and was ready to click, the article was gone. I didn't see an obvious way either to go back to something that just went way.

You could add a freeze button, or a scrollbar to see more history.