Review my new site, EndAnts.com, please. It's supposed to make you happier.

The front page gives me no idea of what I will get by registering, so it's hard to commit to getting an account. (Maybe that would have been remedied by the demo people seem to be mentioning.) It also does nothing to explain what the site does or how it works, other than a vague goal.

Honestly, I read the site, nodded my head, but then realized I couldn't get any info on what your application does. At that point, I left.

You should consider having some kind of description/screenshot on what your specific product does.

I walked it through (without registering) and thought it was interesting, but was surprised to not see any summary of my input at the end, or analysis provided, or anything other than to be dumped back to the start page.

I mean, a certain amount of the point is self-evident by its asking you to re-evaluate your original statements and feelings, but I feel like it's an exercise I would do once, learn or discard, and then never need the website again after that. What further functionality is planned?

I got to the homepage and didn't really know if it was a game or what the heck it was. I only saw "Register" and "Login" buttons, some links to what seemed to be external sites, so... I left :)

I really like this idea. I can even imagine signing up. But before I sign up I need to see clear 3rd party validation from 3 or more reputable sources (e.g. Harvard Psychology Prof) that this approach is effective. In a perfect world this would be specific to your site but I would settle for a strong linkage between the theory your site is built on and the research that backs it.

Why? Because I'm too lazy to do that research myself so I need you to beat me over the head with it. Without that proof I just find myself thinking, "Hmmm good idea. I could use this. But does this work? Why should I trust this site? I could look into it but... too much work". Then I click back button. If you have that info somewhere on the site you need to put it front and center. You have about 10 seconds before I give up and bail.

This is excellent. For more reasons than one.

First of all, from an online marketing and technical standpoint, i love how you force me to try the app rather than giving me a chance to deliberate whether i want to try it or not. good play on invoking my curiousity.

Secondly, and more importantly, what you are trying to achive is very noble, and i mean that sincerely, and the way that you are trying to achieve it is rather amazing.

I go through a re-framing process such as this often in my mastermind group meetings, but to be able to automate this in the way that you have done is truly amazing.

I'm already hooked, and i hope your app can keep me there. This could be a life changer.

I like it. Here's some feedback:

The sliders don't render correctly on chrome (they overlap the other elements).

Step 7 didn't work for me. I clicked it and it didn't do anything. I then couldn't figure out how to get 'back' or to restart the process. I then logged out and then logged back in and expected to see where I left off but didn't.

Minor - it'd be nice to be able to log in with either an email address or username. I used a gmail tracking email to "blah+edants@gmail.com" to see if I get spam and don't want to have to enter that every time.

Neat concept! I would have liked to be able to finish it though.

Great idea, but I think it needs gradual engagement. In other words, no registration initially. People can register after they've tried it out, but obviously it should keep the data collected so far. That solves the problem of having to describe what it actually does, as you can have step 1 right on the front page.

You should (I think) adjust the amount of karma received for reviewing negative thoughts downwards. In my experience people are the type of animal that likes to sniff others' poo and will gladly offer opinions on them even with a smaller reward :-(

Hey Zack,

Thanks for putting something like this together. I found it very helpful in dealing with some of my own unpleasant thoughts and incorrect self beliefes.

Here are some corrections that you can make to improve the site.

1. Style it a little nicer. Just throw on a coat of CSS and you'll be looking good. 2. give me a way to save out of the steps. 3. The rankings seem off. it was telling me i'd be ranked 1709 out of 1928 when i completed it but when I finished it I was only ranked 19 out of 19.

I was reluctant to sign up because I suspected you would be asking for my credit card details. If it is free to register then you should mention that.

Eliminating negative thoughts is unlikely to make you happier. The world is a complicated place. The appropriate response to problems is sober assessment, not positivity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/books/excerpt-bright-sided...

With such a simple registration form, why not just include it on the page?

Also options for OpenID, Facebook Connect, etc would be great as it would reduce the need for me to worry about one more username and password.

Less Worry only produces Greater Happiness.

The negative thoughts I looked at seemed to lend themselves to more than three of the distortions. Could we be allowed to select as few/many as seems appropriate? That would actually be less effort than having to choose the best three of five that seem to fit.

Er, bug report: you can login without a username or password. By clicking 'Log In'

I tried the demo but after 2-3 steps it said I was still at step 1 of 7. When I tried to refresh to see if that was accurate I was told I had already checked out the demo and to register.

Modal dialog boxes make me sad/depressed/angry.

Argh, just went through the full seven step program and the "I'm done!" button isn't responding!

I'm feeling frustrated ;)

can someone please explain the purpose of this application? the demo isn't working and I don't want to register when I don't know what the website is suppose to do.

Kind of frustrating reading 10 comments and still having no clue what it does.

I jsut tried to review someone else's thoughts (which were about how the site design didn't display properly in the browser).

Unfortunately it would not let me submit the page. Using Chrome btw.