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by adamcanady • 13 years ago

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blink.vc

adamcanady4• 13 years ago

Hey folks, OP here, would love your input on what we can do better with this site!

beat• 13 years ago

Get actual VCs to use it?

danso• 13 years ago

Hard to tell if this is satire or not...if it's the latter, probably a little more explanatory text would be useful, though the interactive walkthrough is nice.

The main problem here is the bidding mechanism. Clicking on "Bid" sends me to my OS mail client (which, in my case, has never been initialized)...at the very least, go to a contact form rather than having the "bids" be sent through plain email.

adamcanady4• 13 years ago

Hey danso, thanks for the feedback! We bootstrapped this one all the way down, and we thought we'd take advice from PG's Do Things that Don't Scale article [1].

Sorry it came off as satire, it's totally legit, a few of the things on the homepage were just examples of how to use it.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

saganus• 13 years ago

At least an "about" or "faq" is missing. I (like a lot of people I would guess) skipped the "tutorial" or walkthrough and couldn't find it again. It's not like the website is a challenge to use, but some more info would be nice, including an email to send feedback and suggestions maybe?

adamcanady4• 13 years ago

Hey saganus, our About page is now up: http://blink.vc/about

dancryer• 13 years ago

It seems like a good idea - but the site as it stands now doesn't give me any confidence that any VCs will actually see proposals, and even if they do, that they would take it seriously. Are any VCs on board currently?

You need to find some way to get way more information into the pitches... For example financials, forecasts, a plan. I can't imagine ever investing in something based solely on a short, free-form text pitch (and I'm not a VC.)

Also just a little note on tone - going back to my first point, I'm not sure any VC would take kindly to the idea of "Get Spammed" - You might also want to be careful with your test data ("some rich fart" for example) lest you put off any VCs that happen to see this whilst it is on HN.

Hope that helps. :)

adamcanady4• 13 years ago

Thanks Dan! :) We'll take a look at the language and see if we can get some VCs on board.

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