[MehdiEG]

The video on the home page is surprisingly polished and professionally produced but the script is an obvious piss-take. The home page on the other side is a quick & dirty job - looks like it's been thrown together in a couple of hours using some free website template.

I vote for an end-of-year project by media students made for fun.

[hoursforequity]

How would you suggest we improve the script and home page?

[MehdiEG]

If you guys are actually real, then here is why my first impression was this was a piss-take / joke project:

- The presentation video is slick and has obviously been professionally produced. First impression of the home page on the other side is that it's a very quick & dirty job based on some generic website template. At first sight, it also looks like the site is just the home page and nothing else (tried to fill in the registration form on the home page and it didn't do anything).

So first impression is that you've spent an awful lot of time, energy and money into creating a fancy presentation video but haven't spent any time or resources into the product itself. Which is strange and doesn't give a great deal of confidence.

- The video is essentially a collection of every startup cliché you can think of: "we're creating a social network", "the possibilities are endless", statements about how your product is somehow going to revolutionise local communities, which, to be honest, sound like your typical pure bullshit PR-speak, etc. All filmed in the most stereotypical way I can think of. I'm sorry but my gut feelings here were that none of this was real or genuine.

And then there's those really weird clips of the founder playing guitar or browsing records in a record shop that don't really make any sense. I can only interpret them as taking the piss out of the stereotypical startup founder, who sees himself as a rock star and spends his time faffing around, bullshiting about how he's building the next Facebook, while expecting people to work for him for free / equity.

If this is a real project, then the way to improve this would simply be to focus completely on the product. At the stage you're at, the product is the one and only thing that matters. Fancy videos and big promises only come when you have a product that matches and delivers. Otherwise, it comes across as bullshit. (my personal opinion obviously - others may differ).

[hoursforequity]

Thanks for sharing your opinion. We made the video by creating a listing on our site, issuing alternative compensation, and working with someone to develop it. Our founders are all engineers and designers who work solely on the product, which we admit is not perfect (our product is less than 6 weeks old). We look forward to (hopefully) changing your mind about us in the future.

[LnxPrgr3]

Perhaps it's a minimum viable product of the "landing/signup page only" form. Or maybe that's part of the parody.

[hoursforequity]

The site is our MVP, however, the product is functional. Feel free to sign up and let us know what you think.