[revorad]

Your site is beautiful, the kind of site I would share with my friends because I want to.

But a lot of the things I tried don't work properly. For example, I tried to heart a photo but clicking on the heart icon didn't do anything. So, I realised maybe I need to sign in first. I connected with my Twitter account, but then instead of taking me back to the photo I was looking at, I got a page asking me to share the site with my friends. Anyway I went back to the photo, but I still could not heart it.

Then I saw a few comments on a photo and wanted to add mine. But it said sign in to comment. But I thought I just signed in with Twitter. So I click on sign in anyway. And it turns out just connecting to Twitter does not sign me in. There's another step involved. Why is that?

I think you need to focus on the user experience and make it smoonth, simple and enjoyable. Then people will share it automatically.

[herman]

Thanks for the feedback.

The first sign in is just to sign you into Snapfinch. From here you need to link your Instagram, PicPlz, etc. accounts to be able to comment and like the photos. So if you haven't linked an Instagram account, you won't be able to comment on Instagram photos for example.

But I agree with you, I think I need to make that clearer so people understand exactly how it works.

And maybe allow people to add "snapfinch only" type comments to photos that won't show up in the sharing apps, but only on the website?

[revorad]

Yeah, you should post the comments on snapfinch itself by default and then ask the user if they want to share the same comment on other services. So, if I logged in with Twitter, let me post a comment first and then ask me if I want to tweet it with a link back to the snapfinch page. So, you make it more social without making me jump through extra hoops.

Social is not about all these services; there will be ten new photo sharing apps tomorrow. It's about the people. Make it fun for us and and make us look cool and interesting to our friends.

[herman]

Seriously thanks for the great feedback. Should have asked this question on HN awhile ago.

Looks like I've still got a bit of work to do, luckily it's fun "work".