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Ask HN: would you give us feedback about our saas directory ?

kingapi.com

Implement the standard "community" things like rating, tags and comments. Make it sortable by paid/freemium. Create a "suggest a service" form to replace the email adress, and put up some contact information. I like the overall design, but maybe the logo "style" seems a bit out of place.

Yeah the logo is a bit cheesy :)

Thanks for the suggestions - we will definitely put a form and allow to filter on paid/freemium.

Community stuff is also on our list for later on.

Thanks!

Honestly I liked the logo, but I'm not crazy about the font it uses.

Not sure it's really readable, having a second look. Maybe switching to a more common font will be better here. Thanks for the note.

A couple of UI things:

1) Can you make it so I can click anywhere on the box instead of just the company title?

2) Putting the item I selected at the top of the list is OK, but unexpected. I would expect these links to go to a profile page or directly to the website.

Example: http://www.kingapi.com/billing?selected=cheddargetter

3) Make real links to the website, instead of doing the Javascript redirect. Otherwise I can't open the links in a new tab or see the target in the status bar.

Otherwise, the site is nice. I like the presentation and the list of services is high quality.

1) it should already be the case - does it doesn't work on your machine ? which browser ?

[edit] 1) I found out - it's not clickable everywhere, there are some spots where it doesn't work. Will fix this!

2) yes, I think it's a bit weird - I will likely change it so it goes to the profile page, and add a "more billing/maps services" underneath

3) good point

Thanks!

I second point 2, it just seemed weird. As well it wasn't very pronounced (ie it was on top of the list, but maybe it was just sorted funny? Didn't feel like I came to the page to see that).

Definitely agree on using a single profile page.

It doesn't 'feel' well, I agree.

We will put some kind of profile page later on, for the mean time I'm just going to redirect to the website directly, it's just more clear.

Thanks!

shorten the width a little, I have to side scroll on my netbook. Annoying. Also, I can't open a link by middle-clicking it with my mouse. Annoying as well.

Otherwise, pretty nice idea.

good point, thanks - I'll see if we can fix this!

A few months back we were looking for a place that would keep track of saas building-blocks that we find useful to build applications (we = Sébastien Gruhier and me).

So we finally decided to build this little directory and put it online.

We're working on adding more content to it as we go.

Please note I'm aware other HNers are working on similar stuff! We just happened to work on this during the last couple of months, it was time we release it :)

Any feedback will be most welcome!

I'm going to guess you know about: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

I like your UI much better, however.

Well no actually! I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the link!

I like the idea to have a place to catalog API-based solutions. It would be interesting to have folks vote for popular APIs.

I'll see how we can implement a useful vote feature.

Get rid of the shadows on the screenshots, ahte it when sites aren't represented the way the really look.

Add language or markets and filters for them.

shadows: we tried without first but we didn't like it. I may try with less shadow later on though :)

language/markets - what do you mean more precisely ?

Looks pretty good. However, I suspect your real challenge will be keeping the signal to noise ratio high.

Spot on - based on my previous experience (with http://learnivore.com), selection is the key.

I hope we will manage to keep a good selection up there.

I love the design; I'll be watching it as you add more services.

Thank you - you'll want to follow http://twitter.com/kingofapi for updates - I'll push each new site registered there.

well - I just did it, but just because you were threatening :)

It would be good to get the twitter kingapi name, but no luck so far!

middle click / control click does not work.

I do not know how others browse, but among my friends it is common to middle click when having a list of things to checkout.

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