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by ecaroth 5262 days ago
Been working on FitBolt (fitbolt.com) for about a year, spent ~$200 setting up credit card processing & recurring payments, $50 on business cards, and about $150 on legal fees. LOTS of optimization has kept my appengine costs well within the free quotas, and everything else has only been my time.
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Filbolt looks interesting. I know it's not nice to get unwarranted design criticism, but I found the text on your site quite hard to read. You should consider making the text of the main value proposition (The problem and The solution) much bigger and more prominent. Right now, it's just lost in a sea of other similar looking text.
I just wanted to add (I know you didn't ask) but I agree that the white text in the bright yellow is hard to read. I think the suggestion to make that bigger and more prominent will be helpful!
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely am going to take a hard look at modifying the design on the main page, including making the main point more prominent, visible, and easy to read!
$150 on legal fees? What was that for, did you use some online templates to incorporate? I gather you're a solo startup?