I applied for YC W14

by gwomble • 13 years ago

5 9 13 years ago

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Wow, actually pretty nerve racking submitting here. But, there it is. We applied and hope Cinch is in the next batch at YC.

Our site was just launched, so might be a little buggy, but we are proud of the product we have built. Would love feedback from the HN faithful!

Caligula• 13 years ago

Looks like a good application. One issue I had with viewing the site is that I had to watch 30 seconds of the video before I realized what it was.

'better loyalty. smarter marketing' is not obvious to me that its a loyalty card type program with a terminal display.

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Thank you!

Great point. We've toyed with the idea of a more generic-but-descriptive tag line. We assumed that most people would already have a basic idea of what Cinch is when they landed on the site (HN visitors obviously won't), but perhaps that's not a safe assumption to make?

chrismonsanto• 13 years ago

The website has a horizontal scroll bar unless I devote an entire monitor to it (1920 pixels, FF 24). I actually did have your site at full screen, but I use a vertical tab bar, so you didn't get my entire viewport. There's quite a bit of padding, so you don't actually need that much width.

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Hmmm...in what browser are you getting that scroll bar?

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Ah, FF 24. Thanks for the heads up.

sinak• 13 years ago

Looks like for some reason this got flagged off the homepage. Not exactly sure why, but anyway: I really like it. I agree with Caligula though, I had to watch the video to get the key piece of information that I was interested in, which was how users identify themselves (phone number).

Weirdly, I now notice that it's written right below the video. But I'd maybe shorten that sentence, or change the "simple and easy signup" headline to something like "All it takes is a phone number."

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Thanks for the kind words. And do I have you to thank for getting it "un-flagged"?

Nice tip on the headline under the video, I like it!

gwomble6• 13 years ago

Or perhaps it's still flagged, can't see it anywhere. This is my first post to HN, is it a regular occurrence for posts to disappear? :)

I applied for YC W14

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