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by RBr 5606 days ago
You need to get rid of this error: https://img.skitch.com/20110209-rtu2pqwq6kqjqrdeuf34y6p2ep.j...

I like the idea. The execution was well done. Clean, simple, easy. Your initial landing / signup page needs some work. You did a good job of instilling trust, but I didn't know what your service did. This will have a negative impact on signups.

1) Make a video introduction. Do some grass roots stuff like sponsoring a rose exchange at a few local schools (might be a bit late for Valentines day now). Write a press release today - this is newsworthy with the proximity to Valentines day and newsies are struggling for feelgood stories. Get some testimonials. Find out when someone gets married after using your service and do something huge. Take out some Facebook ads. Do some in-game sponsorships with facebook games.

2) Users. Your product is built around users. Your product balances on trust and if you monetize too early, you won't stand a chance of being trusted. Switch when marketing is no longer a problem and something you do to continue to push the product.

3) In order: Trust, scaling technology, competing services from people with money, the "one off" usage case.

4) The design is well done. You start building trust on the first page. Inside of the app, your product is easy to understand. It's fun. I didn't like the error message above. The number of modal popups got annoying fast. There was nothing to do "after" I sent my note.

2 comments

Great points!!!

1) WIP - we're only 2 devs and one business guy! 2) Agreed - its all about the users. 3) Good points, we agree with this - we just wanted to see if there are valid opposing viewpoints. 4) We'll fix the error message and figure out what to do after you send the adore. Thanks for bringing this to our attn!

"we're only 2 devs and one business guy!"

You're in Waterloo? I'm local. If you'd like to chat x@y where: x = rob.brown and y = gmail.com

Hey Victor here.

1) I do agree with you that the front page is kind of too mysterious and that might put people off from signingup.

2 & 3) Agreed.

4) We are working on it. Just to let you know, when we lauched we had a method of not requiring people's emails. However, that path got shut down so now we have to release this temporarily fix. Do you have a good recommendation to get around this without users explicitly inputting their adore's emails?