Ask HN: Review our startup, http://TryingTo.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2492787

by vipivip • 15 years ago

6 11 15 years ago

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My girlfriend and I been fiddling with http://www.TryingTo.com since February. We all try to do something, TryingTo.com is a platform where individuals and companies share what they are trying to do. Still buggy, rough, & rugged. Kindly seeking feedback from HN readers. Please check it out, log in as an individual user username: insurancechapter@yahoo.com pass: 12345678, as a company username: wikiadvertise@yahoo.com pass: 12345678, or feel free to create an account. Thanks.

thomasswift• 15 years ago

Clicker: http://TryingTo.com

dsawler• 15 years ago

What's the purpose of 3 words or less?

It loads funny in Chrome 10 and FF4, http://cl.ly/0s3i0K3t2D3K2C3x0A2Q

Also, when I click in the search input field in FF4, it takes me to a 404 page.

vipivip4• 15 years ago

Apologies, server issues, working on it.

iambot• 15 years ago

it looked pretty screwed in FF4, didnt know where to click, or what to read

vipivip4• 15 years ago

Working on it now, someone infiltrated some dirty code, patching it now.

PaulJoslin• 15 years ago

No offence, but firstly I don't really understand the site or it's purpose. Limiting me to only 3 words or less on what I'm trying to do doesn't really seem to have much purpose?

It's not clear what I or anyone else using the site is trying to achieve?

- Secondly and more seriously, the site seems to be open to XSS / SQL injection, I wouldn't be surprised if the user passwords are stored in clear text too in the database.

vipivip4• 15 years ago

The purpose was for people/companies to share what they trying to do in 3 words or less, we thought it would be fun if we limit the posts to 3 words - in return members/companies would get crowd sourced feedback from other members.

Thanks for pointing XSS / SQL injection, working around this now.

SHOwnsYou• 15 years ago

This looks cluttered.

I'd suggest layout similar to fmylife.com. You don't need to require an account for people to use. Allow commenting, only those logged in can comment ? (Just thinking as I type).

I'm wondering if this would be more interesting if users generally had a more playful tone. "Trying to finish studying, but 30rock is too addicting!"

This comes close to a more specific twitter though, but similar sites exist (thathigh.com, fmylife.com, probably more).

Take all of this with a grain of salt. I am just typing whatever comes to mind.

vipivip4• 15 years ago

We know it looks cluttered that's why we sourced feedback from HN, We figured to be different from all those sites...limiting posts to 3 words or less would be fun. Thanks for feedback, learning a lot.

martinshen• 15 years ago

This is unusable at this point. I think there are far too many bugs to show anyone this. Please get it to a point where you can have someone use it for 5 minutes without a bug that would stop them from proceeding.

nametoremember• 15 years ago

First thing that I saw was:

"Members Trying To" and then a users name. So my brain parsed it as:

"Members Trying To Rose" "Members Trying To Insurance"

Ask HN: Review our startup, http://TryingTo.com

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