My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

http://www.cliparena.com

by vuknje • 19 years ago

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Lockheed• 19 years ago

Honestly, it looks GREAT! and it works great! I love the concept. Kind of HotOrNot+Video mashup. Sweet.

[get rid of that "sexy " stuff. Look at dailymotion.com .Now they are working hard to get rid of the porn content.Reason, they didnt care about it in the beginning ]

vuknje10• 19 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. Hmm.. there is a difference between "sexy" and "porn".. but, maybe you're right..

ed2• 19 years ago

Eh, wait until traffic builds a bit before you clean up your act. Porn often makes for great seed content, so long as you don't let it erode your brand.

aarontait• 19 years ago

Looks gorgeous. Where's the business model? You can't have a business without a way for it to make money.

sabat4• 19 years ago

All you need is a regular audience of visitors and you can make money. Take PlentyOfFish.com for instance. Revenues of more then $5 million per year, all ad-driven.

vuknje10• 19 years ago

I'll put some ads for now. At this moment, I have no business model. I guess time will show what's best to do

steve• 19 years ago

Adsense has been terrible for me every time I tried it. What's the typical per user return that you guys see?

mattrandle• 19 years ago

Its fantastic & very entertaining.

A true testament to what can be achieved with skill, knowledge, and an idea.

Well done.

vuknje10• 19 years ago

Thanks, dude.

luccastera• 19 years ago

vuknje, there is a typo on the url in your profile info. fyi.

sabat4• 19 years ago

I like the idea a lot. I have no idea how you vote for a clip, though. You should make that dead obvious.

vuknje10• 19 years ago

There are big green "vote" buttons under each video. They disappear if you have voted, and result is shown.

sabat4• 19 years ago

It's weird. Adblock seemed to be blocking them. No idea what filter I wrote that would have done that.

sabat4• 19 years ago

OK, it's not adblock. There are now no voting buttons I can find anywhere on the site, either on the home page, or on arena pages. I tried in Firefox (2) and in IE (7).

rchambers• 19 years ago

Nice layout. Easy to use. Good Luck!

vuknje10• 19 years ago

Thanks!

pramodbiligiri2• 19 years ago

Wow, nice idea and executed excellently. One week? I gather you are a webdev in your day job then? XHTML Strict, jquery etc...

A couple of suggestions: For about 20 secs I couldn't figure out what this site was. Maybe a helpful tagline close to the logo? The vertical list of arenas next to the videos jerks a bit as I hover. A little unsettling. Some extra margin or padding for those boxes should fix it.

Try some viral angle - "Tell a Friend" or something. Maybe a Gabbly box to chat with anyone else who is on at the same time.

Best of luck. I hope you don't get porned.

vuknje10• 19 years ago

thank you for your time and suggestions. yes, i was a webdev in my day job before i quit

you're right - some tagline should be fine.. any ideas?

for viral angle: i plan to make generated code for embeding arena into a web site

gabbly looks interesting, i didn't see it before. thanks for information

cheers

pramodbiligiri2• 19 years ago

I just read about <a href="http://madkast.com">MadKast</a> on TechCrunch..you should definitely look at that to put a "Share this" widget! :) It's beautiful.

codeLullaby• 19 years ago

Nice concept, nice design. Great job vuknje.

But there is a bug in there. If you click multiple times fast enough(or if the same arena is opened in multiple tabs before i start voting ), it accepts each click as a valid vote.

Do not depend on UI components/client side script for validation.

And in UI, it says "New Arenas (1 - 10) " although it shows only 1-3 (/new.php)

Hope this helps. All the best vuknje.

vuknje10• 19 years ago

thanks for feedback!

i fixed a bug you've found.

jaed• 19 years ago

Feature request: Please change the UI so it doesn't look so Web 2.Oh :-)

vuknje10• 19 years ago

hmm.. but it would take me an additional week.. it's too much time in a web2.0 world ;) btw, your site (altruistiq.com) looks awesome.

sgraham• 19 years ago

I see no way to vote. (FF2)

ed2• 19 years ago

Just a thought: do the winners in each category bubble up to the top? It'd be cool to try and "challenge the #1 spot" with your own video.

iamwil• 19 years ago

btw, myyearbook.com has implemented something similar. At least your site doesn't give me motion sickness.

My startup idea: ClipArena.com - I made it in one week. What do you think?

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