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Ask HN: Rate my startup: beepl.com

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3 pointsjparicka19 comments

At this stage, it's only a prototype running on a single 0.5GB server instance. Be gentle. :-)

Thanks for the feedback!

Bonus wallpaper on http://twitpic.com/xyyd0

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What's the purpose?

At a quick glance, it's still got a lot of testing bugs showing publicly:

1) Your question Test is top of the front page

2) Top Members are "ad sd asd dasda" etc

3) The top links (including 'About Beepl', which would have answered my original question) still have the template # link in them

4) Some of the questions appear to have been overrun by spam (note the Star Trek question)

5) Also worth noting that I did know "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet", but only because I'd seen it before.

Congrats on putting it out there. I look forward to learning more.

Edit: Here's the direct link to the front page - http://www.beepl.com/

Unfortunately, the text here doesn't really explain what it does either, and the only options I have are either emailing you (not likely) or registering (also unlikely, for a website I don't know when it's not clear what it does).

It seems to be suffering from the same issues as your last Rate my Startup - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612319 - mainly too much marketing speak, and not enough demonstration of the problem it solves.

Erm, I did put up a comment here explaining that we are testing the results (references) beepl provides. No idea where that go. There won't be any spam on beepl - we're working on it (crm114 discriminator - still in works).

Thanks for the feedback. Very valuable.

Ok, so, I took a quick look and the only thing that works is if you click on a question from the page you link to, you are brought to a page with stuff on it. This looks like a non-functioning, reskinned Yahoo! Answers, that may at some point start charging people to find someone to answer the question. Is this the intent? Is there some deeper thing that I've missed here?

It's actually all about that "stuff" beepl populates back to questions. Have you tried "more like this"? And it is very much functional - I am aware only about the registration problem. Seems to be working for some, not for the others - no idea where the problem is.

Anyway, it's about the results - we match these semantically.

I really hoped one would notice - at least wikipedia references, or question auto-categorization, if nothing else...

Thanks for the feedback - very valuable.

Yes, we still seem to have a lot to do - and yes, we do consider Yahoo! Answers evil. Thank you.

PS - we won't start charging people. We recommend and sell shit from Amazon.

I don't know , maybe its because I jumped in late, but I click on to answer and all I see are a bunch of ads. bad taste IMO

There are zero adverts. These are feeds - picasa, amazon, digg, youtube, wikipedia, even yahoo answers, etc. Did you not notice that? There's a sample of almost 800 questions to see how well this works.. Try to click on "more like this", just try..

You will find an answer to that question in those..

i see , i clicked on Which star trek series is the best? and saw purchase something on amazon, which i thought was like a referral link, and thought it was an ad/referral link/selling something

Bonus: http://twitpic.com/xyyd0

Thanks for the feedback folks. I will rethink few things on beepl. Cheers!

Pretty sweet, but I can't use the registration.

Ouch .. now that is a problem. I will have a look.

Can you refresh or something? It did create your account.. :-(

Sure, I'll try that.

..for those having problems with the registration.

The design's pretty cool.

Beepl's functionality - reply, answer, "more" and "more like these" are making this flowless experience. We really hoped to come up with something new. Try it out and let me know.

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