[bschaefer]

Hey! I'm the developer behind Philanthroper.com, and would love to see some discussion here and answer any questions you have.

We've gotten some good press so far [1], and we're completely thrilled to finally be live.

Today's featured NPO is particularly great; Computer Aid International refurbishes the computers you would have thrown out -- or, at least recycled -- and distributes them throughout Africa and Latin America (over 175,000 since they started in 1998).

Seems like just the sort of thing HN would be interested in!

[1] http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/01/philanthroper-hopes-...

[drats]

Your page doesn't function well as a landing page or give enough information straight away about how it all works. The comment from Ben Thacker (facebook comment) is the kind of thing you need to get to the user quickly:

"For US bank-account-holders only, an interesting idea. Choose whether or not to donate $1 per day to a variety of charities pre-vetted by Philanthroper. Religious/personal appeals are excluded, and the website makes its money from ads, not by taking a cut. The only fee is a 1% charge for the payment processing."

https://www.banksimple.com/ has a pretty epic page/intro, open source too. Do some testing anyway, but it's a good idea you have got going there. Congratulations on your launch.

[bschaefer]

Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely be thinking about the best way to draw in new visitors and give them a clear understanding of what the site's about.

[BvS]

According to my experience with non-profit web projects the "About" page is even more important than on other site. Maybe you want to make it even easier to reach and add some more information, pictures... to build trust and make sure that real people are behind this and that it's not a scam.