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by makeee 5595 days ago
I think the concept is pretty good, and I could see something like this going viral, but before marketing it I would work on the user flow a bit more..

1. Engage people right away. I think those login / signup forms are going to scare people away. If it were my site, I'd just have a box where users input 5 facts about themself, an input box where they pic a username, and a big button that says "Create my page at 5factsabout.me/xxxx". Once they do that, ask for the their email / pass (or fb / twitter login) to finish the process.

2. Make it as easy as possible for people to choose their facts. Suggest some ideas for real facts (a place where you lived, your middle name, etc..), and then possibly pull up facts entered by other people to give people ideas for fake facts. Maybe they can just click a suggested fake fact to add it.

Also, I'd suggest using the standard fb and twitter connect buttons. The buttons you're using now don't seem like login buttons. People are used to the standard fbml facebook connect button.

In my opinion, those changes could easily be the difference between it going viral and not going anywhere.

1 comments

Thanks for the reply it's been note. I was thinking about changing the login buttons myself aswell, I thought that they didn't really look much like login buttons. Thanks for the advice.