Hi HN. What do you think about my new startup - Karminator.com

http://www.karminator.com/

by anoopengineer • 17 years ago

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diN0bot• 17 years ago

lots of advertisements makes me feel like you made a cheap site to make money. sure, it looks 2.0-ish and has a nice personable reason about why i should login, but now that i've added an achievement only to be rewarded with a new set of ads, that thin vaneer has become dirty. i feel used. you can do better.

eplawless• 17 years ago

I don't feel your concept is compelling. Assuming I did feel the concept was compelling, I would use a text file as suggested, and not your site. The page feels extremely bare, which I imagine is due to my having enabled Adblock Plus.

halo• 17 years ago

I didn't understand the purpose of your site just by visiting its front page - provide a short explanation.

Derrek• 17 years ago

My first thought was, "ok, what does this do?" I then tried to figure out the site's purpose based on the limited posts but that wasn't sufficient. I then had to click to the About page. In my opinion, that's way too much thinking to just figure out the purpose of the site. Don't make a user think too much upon the very first time entering the site.

Maybe you could add a small bit of copy under the title briefly describing why the site is there. Or perhaps some catchy slogan that describes the purpose.

htsh• 17 years ago

well said, exactly the same experience here. I looked all over that first page for an idea of what it did before clicking on "About." In general, leaving a page to figure out what it does is simply not what I expect to do anymore.

jdrock• 17 years ago

Exact same experience for me. Just-launched sites should have a quick, easy-to-read "what do we do" blurb or graphic.

rathboma• 17 years ago

I also echo this comment. Just one line would do it, with a link to the about page for more information.

MicahWedemeyer• 17 years ago

I'm of the opinion that 99% of web startups that are ad based are doomed to fail. There's nothing here that could be packaged into a freemium/subscription model, so forget about that. Perhaps merchandising could work out (get your successes on a T-shirt), but I wouldn't count on it.

As a fun weekend project, I'd say it was a success. Plus, if it works for you and you like it, that's awesome. It's a stretch to call it a startup.

anoopengineer• 17 years ago

thnks guys. thats great feedback. I definitely need to add a bit of explanation on the front page.

moe• 17 years ago

Just want to add that I love the design. Very clean, nice colorscheme, it's gorgeous. Only nitpick would be that the body text in those boxes could be a tiny bit bigger.

(disclaimer: adblock user and the product itself is not of interest to me)

ujjwalg• 17 years ago

make an iPhone app where users can share there karma's with their friends/everyone it might be a successful business. Being a website, I doubt a lot of people are going to use it.

caffeine• 17 years ago

You should've called this "Yay-me!" instead of Karminator. The about page makes sense. The front page doesn't, really.

Hi HN. What do you think about my new startup - Karminator.com

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