Ask HN: Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893558

by Concours • 17 years ago

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I've just set a new project and will highly appreciate any critics. Site is still in Beta (need to write a Privacy policy and ToS) and the design is quite simple to focus the user attention on content. Any suggestions are welcome and any User experience (Usability) feedback will be very helpful, yeah even the little details, no one cares about, whatever you think of it, I'd love to read it, if it sucks, feel free to say it as well. Thanks

patternexon• 17 years ago

http://mcsquare.me/

hyyypr2• 17 years ago

Hi, I don't really get what your site is about. It just get news/content from other websites and displays them? I like the design though :).

Concours4• 17 years ago

Hi hyyypr,thanks for the feedback. My site also do that. But you can add comments (value to those links just like on hacker news), just think of the web like a 10000## Pages Book, usually you use a search engine to search the book (Internet), that's one way, the other way is just to open the table of content, and find what you are looking for and check it (My site is trying to help here).

- If you do some online Researches, that's a great Help

- It helps organizations with a bunch of data (text feeds, flickr, videos, blogs....) bring all these data in one place: check google/nytimes/IBM that probably have more than 100 Blogs each, and try to find those blogs from google.com, or to navigate there: Time spent____a Bunch. Time save with www.mcsquare.me ____a Bunch and priceless

-The site helps you share every single story in social Medias (Twitter) and directly subscribe to any interesting Blog found there, No barriers, everything is one click away.

-The site helps blogger bring the word out (as we know, not every good writer/blogger is a SEO GURU, and publisher will receive highly targeted user on their sites.

- The site can also be seen as an RSS directory of selected content/blogs/sites

-The site brings you the Best Podcast on selected topics on one place (podcast.com , podfeed.net , Odeo.com....are doing just that as well, so it should be a sustainable Business)

-The site updates the stories in nearly realtime speed.

And you may also ask yourself how i plan to earn money with it to keep this up and running: Well Advertising seems to work, as the Guy from stackoverflow and google make a bunch of money from that, affiliates marketing are also a good move, and some other revenue sources.

You may want to check popurls.com (great ressource as well but for a different Audience and also with very different features to figure out how those portals work).

-The site can do some additional interesting things...but those are the main things, the site is about.

Great you like the Design, I actually made the Design as simple as possible and intuitive hoping, it'll be self-explaining. I hope I could answer your question, feel free to ask additional questions or make suggestions, I'll really appreciate, and if the site sucks or you hate it, let me know as well, just tell me why and in the meantime(If you Really really really hate it), you may want to check: www.popurls.com, originalsignals.com, alltop.com, feedables.com, eufeeds.eu , theweblist.net, podcast.com, podfeed.net...But I hope you like the site and keep coming back and talk about it as I'd prefer to keep you stick on my site and feed your brain in realtime, almost live every single day with valuable Informations, while saving a time.

BTW, it's a network (point your mouse to channel on the top menu), that's all bootrapping. Thanks again hyyypr.

hyyypr2• 17 years ago

Hi, thank you for your detailed explaination. That's what I thought at first. I personally use tiny tiny rss to read stuff form all over the web. And I already find it hard to keep up with all my feeds.

I'm am no one to give advises, but perhaps you should focus more on the RSS aggregator aspect of your project, with emphasis on social sharing (which lacks in other alternatives).

I think today people who want to read stuff from the web prefer choosing their sources personally, and subscribe to its rss feed. And use sites like HN to discover new sources.

But then again, I'm no expert, it's just my personal feeling :)

movix• 17 years ago

I agree completely with this...no idea what's going on here, but it intrigued me enough to spend time poking about trying to find out, and actually come back to this thread later to see if anyone could enlighten me. Really like the design, you've obviously got something, I just can't work out what it is, which from your side, is a problem.

Enlighten me please.

Concours4• 17 years ago

Hey movix, just saw your question today (haven't figure out at the time how to track my post back).Could the answer to hyyypr help you? it's great you like the design. feel free to ask any specific question, if there's something not clear, I'll do my best to make it a bit clearer. In "one" word, it's an aggregator for sites and blogs as well as podcasts and the feeds are update in nearly realtime, add some social features to it and that's it. A User case could be for a google employee to keep in touch with his company news, it's very easy to do that by checking the google category with all the google blogs listed there, no need to fire up your desktop feedreader all the time, or login somewhere, just go get what you are looking for, and if you miss the news from several days before, click on the "more" option and you can catch up with that stuff and share it to twitter with one click.

bemmu• 17 years ago

Instead of "last buzz" you probably want to say "latest buzz". Also the (no comments) on the right of everything bugs me, better to show nothing? Or show it if moused over only.

Concours4• 17 years ago

Hi bemmu, thanks for the feedback. I've actually changed the title a couple of days or maybe hours!? ago, to display something different, they're not that much peoples searching for "buzz" in google, so I will change that in my meta Tags to latest buss, great. Well, for the "no comments" I can't really help myself here than keeping it, or changing it to something like "more" as there're more than comments behind that option (subscribe, tweet, view other peoples comments and more). Sop the average User won't figure it with the mouse-over, and an Icon will just be too much additional connections and load for the site and the user experience. Maybe I should remove the "no" there? not sure as it's there to interact with the user, somehow inviting the user to comment...could you figure out what the site is about? and what about the usability/your user experience there? were most of the options self-explaining?

Thanks

Ask HN: Please, Simple Review of my Site www.mcsquare.me highly appreciated.

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