Obviously just a failed attempt at self-promotion.
Unless you want to believe that Hany discovered this story, jumped through their registration hoop, was impressed by the UI and signed up with HN to post an appraisal - all of that in only 8 minutes after the story was posted.
Come on raja, you can do better than that...
Oh and btw, I flagged the story for that crap. Pull your PR-stunts elsewhere.
I like your site design. I like having the perfect princess in the search. I was expecting from the domain name that it would only be able to search for men.
I like how it automatically knew to put Waterloo as the city.
Some things to improve:
* Show results first.
* You need to be useful to the user first. If you can do it without asking for anything in return then even better.
* Take the drop.io model. Upload and go...no user info required unless they want to offer it.
* Get rid of the sign up. You want to make money 2nd and get users first. So no signup. Make it free then add value added services to service your members.
* Make it even more niche. Up to you how to do this.
* Focus on only a few major cities. Make it clear where you operate.
* Hook into other services - plentyoffish. They may not like this. But do it then deal with it. Afterall both you and they get exposure. Don't steal their users though. Remember your goal is to be useful to the user not yourself.
* If their match is somewhere else lead them there. Offer them to give you their email and you can help them more in the future.
Sorry, forgot about this thread. I mean include their profiles into your website. They may not like it since you are redirecting potential viewers of their ads. You guess you can mitigate this by only showing little information and then redirecting a user to plentyoffish.
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Did you create this account just to comment on this thread?
Considering the biased tone of your post, this sounds a bit too good to be true.
If you're not connected to the OP in any way and just liked his site, I apologise!
Obviously just a failed attempt at self-promotion.
Unless you want to believe that Hany discovered this story, jumped through their registration hoop, was impressed by the UI and signed up with HN to post an appraisal - all of that in only 8 minutes after the story was posted.
Come on raja, you can do better than that...
Oh and btw, I flagged the story for that crap. Pull your PR-stunts elsewhere.
Not a very inciteful comment jonas_b.
I like your site design. I like having the perfect princess in the search. I was expecting from the domain name that it would only be able to search for men.
I like how it automatically knew to put Waterloo as the city.
Some things to improve:
* Show results first.
* You need to be useful to the user first. If you can do it without asking for anything in return then even better.
* Take the drop.io model. Upload and go...no user info required unless they want to offer it.
* Get rid of the sign up. You want to make money 2nd and get users first. So no signup. Make it free then add value added services to service your members.
* Make it even more niche. Up to you how to do this.
* Focus on only a few major cities. Make it clear where you operate.
* Hook into other services - plentyoffish. They may not like this. But do it then deal with it. Afterall both you and they get exposure. Don't steal their users though. Remember your goal is to be useful to the user not yourself.
* If their match is somewhere else lead them there. Offer them to give you their email and you can help them more in the future.
Good luck
What do you mean when you suggest hooking into plentyoffish? And why do you also say they may not like it?
Sorry, forgot about this thread. I mean include their profiles into your website. They may not like it since you are redirecting potential viewers of their ads. You guess you can mitigate this by only showing little information and then redirecting a user to plentyoffish.
Amusing, perhaps this is an attempt to seed the site with new users.