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by ChrisNorstrom 4683 days ago
Who are you? You want me to give you money but you won't reveal your names or photos of yourselves?

"Who the hell are you to ask for money like this?" was my immediate reaction. No about page, no contact page. Nothing. So you've never done sales, and this is your first lesson. Being on the internet does not mean you can ask people for money without proving yourself to be legitimate.

And I see this 7/10 times on HN projects. The excuse is always the same: "Oh we forgot we just put the site up". The about page is the FIRST thing that should go up.

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They have it on their main page, if you bothered to scroll down to the footer, you'd realize that this is not their main service, so it wouldn't make sense for them to have their information on every single page of their site.

https://www.strikingly.com/?ref=logo&permalink=snappic (footer)

What makes you think they run strikingly.com ? From what I can tell strikingly.com is a squarespace type deal, and they're using some cheap plan which plasters a logo on the page.
At this point we're testing the concept and seeing whether people are interested in having their most memorable FB/IG etc photos sent to them in physical form.

Btw, Strikingly (not affiliated with us) is a great tool for creating nice looking one-page sites. Recommend checking it out!

If you're at all serious I'd suggest investing the $16 to remove the branding of this other company + a couple bucks for a domain. Goes a long way to improve credibility.
Seriously, having your own domain goes a long way for credibility. Sorry about my confused reply, ChrisNorstrom, no harm intended. Oh and the "not bothering" bit of my comment was uncalled for, so, sorry for that as well.