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11 pointsattacomsian14 comments

If you're looking for feedback:

The front page feels a little unfinished, and my eyes don't really know where to land when the page loads. The next thing I see is a 'Drift' chat pop up, asking me how you can help? I'm not really sure as I don't know what the site does yet, but now I'm thinking you're probably selling something? It's more the kind of thing I'd expect to see on an eCommerce store, also there's another modal behind it that it's covering, here's a pic:

http://imgur.com/PBxOYZ8

It's hard to judge much more, as there's not really much content, trending matches the row below and some of the categories are empty. I'd heavily focus on content before launching to anywhere as, such as Product Hunt.

Side note: I hate the little chat bubbles that pop up on sites nowadays. They are fine if they just sit there until you need them, but often they make noises, expand automatically, change the page's title ("Hi! The team is around to chat if you need help"), etc.

I think people put them on their site because everyone else has them. What's not considered is you are giving real estate on your page to someone that has different goals than you (even if you are on their paid version).

The effectiveness and conversations might be great, I still hate them.

Drift does not expand automatically and makes no noise :)

Perhaps not on your site. Go to the Drift home page and it will expand after a few seconds if you're a new visitor. It also makes a pingy-new-message sound.

Correct. But I was referring to my site.

Thank you for quick feedback. StartupBase is going to be a platform for entrepreneurs to show their products to the community of makers and early adopters ready to provide valuable feedback.

I agree with you on front page. It is not well finished yet. Drift may be removed in future depending on how it is useful.

The modal behind Drift has been removed. Thank you for reporting. For launching on Product Hunt, I am in no hurry. Right now, my focus is to add more content (mainly startups).

Wow you completely copied my site including, design text and everything :/

https://betalist.com

Please take down the site immediately. Filing DMCA requests now.

The permissions needed for Twitter signup are somewhat off-putting.

These are okay:

> This application will be able to:

> Read Tweets from your timeline.

> See who you follow,

These are less okay:

> and follow new people.

> Update your profile.

> Post Tweets for you.

> See your email address.

I agree with the above comment. I think you should allow your users to submit their startup via email or a form on the site. Quite a few people including myself would be reluctant to provide twitter access with the permissions above. Another small note, there's a typo on the submit page above the button "Read to show your..." I think you meant *Ready ?

Good luck with it all.

Thank you for pointing out the typo. Unlike Facebook, it is not possible to grant individual permission to Twitter App in application console. There are very few options available to manage Twitter App permissions. But we don't post or follow anyone on behalf of users without their prior consent. Many other websites like Product Hunt have the similar Twitter permissions list (https://www.producthunt.com/auth/twitter).

If you still do not feel comfortable with Twitter login, you can login via Facebook which has minimal permissions.

At the moment, it is not possible to accept startup submissions via email or a form. It would make things quite hard to manage for us. We want to create an active community and not just merely a startup directory where you list your startup for a backlink and then forget about it. Startup listing is just a part of our future goals at StartupBase. There will be many more things.

Is this the same exact model as https://betalist.com/ ?

Not exactly. Although, it is a startup submission directory similar to BetaList, but it has a lot more things than the former. Right now, we just released a minimal version. There are many things planned for coming months.

More to my previous answer: The fundamental difference between StartupBase & BetaList is that the former focuses on startups which are either LIVE or are in public beta, whereas the later only allows startups which are in private beta and not live yet.

Yep, looks like they completely ripped of our design, including some content. They possibly scraped much of our content too which I'm looking into right now. (we incurred very high CDN fees because of this)

As for BetaList allow allowing pre-launching startups, that's a policy we're about to change since many startups skip the pre-launch phase and launch an MVP on day one.

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