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http://blog.lawnstarter.com/post/76822720788/thanks-to-hacker-news-for-helping-us-debug-our-site

by stevencorcoran • 12 years ago

42 10 12 years ago

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boldrikboldrik• 12 years ago

Is is just me or is this site completely unreadable due to tiny size of text and unreadable images?

dewey• 12 years ago

It's not just you. It's one of the default tumblr themes and not really a good choice for text posts.

exceptione• 12 years ago

No, me too. I can't even see what those images should show.

trcollinson• 12 years ago

I am sure we can debate all day the merits of different styles of testing, but Ryan (the blogger and co-founder, for those who don't want to read the article), really should think about adding some testing for features like this. To say things like "this [bug] was embarrassing, especially when that [user] was a potential investor" and then also make comments like "we had just redone our website, and hadn't done too much testing" or "I could have written a script for this [testing], but that itself would have taken up precious time", is, frankly, silly. I'm glad actual users were able to give you the data to debug and have a potentially mediocre experience in the mean time. If you are a start up and expect potential investors to give you their money to fund your dream a) don't come off sounding lazy about quality, and b) make a well tested, high quality product. Testing will make your product better, waste a lot less of your own time as a developer, and win you investors for your idea.

hablahaha2• 12 years ago

Glad to see that y'all have removed the Kate Upton photo, I can see that it was just a mistake :)

gus_massa• 12 years ago

Mmm, the new Jesse Swanson, "My Dedicated Lawn Genius" is a screenshot from a Stock Video (not sure which one, she has many videos that are very similar):

http://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/33665071/smiling-woman-ta...

http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-5295113-stock-footage-s...

hablahaha2• 12 years ago

Ugh, I was afraid of that. It looked very much like a stock photo. They really, really don't need a picture there to begin with.

panarky• 12 years ago

Still seems broken.

1) Navigate to http://lawnstarter.com/signup/

2) Enter my address, Google Street View of my house shows up

3) "Is this your address?" has "Yes" highlighted in green

4) I click the green "Yes" element, nothing happens

How do I get to the next step?

teh_klev• 12 years ago

I tried that too and got the same result. I'm outside the US, if this isn't your intended audience then make it clear you're serving US(/Canada) only users/customers.

Edit: Ok...so I discover that you're limited to DC metro and a couple of VA counties at the very bottom of the page. Perhaps your address selector should be a bit more clever and save folks some time.

ricket• 12 years ago

I see the same, pretty sure it's broken for everyone, see the JS console: http://i.imgur.com/eQZlNKO.png

Gotta love that professional log message, "This shit ran". In addition to several errors. The onclick function doesn't work at all, except in browsers where window.event is a thing. Guess what browser does that? Internet Explorer.

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