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Comment by petervandijck | Hacker News Reader

Writing: "The easiest way to share your entire content." is not a good sentence. Better option: "The easiest way to share all your content."

From a glance, I don't understand what the product does. From reading the boxes below, I kind of get that I can post by email, and some other stuff, but I still don't really get it.

"More than a blog" -> so you provide a blog service with easy crossposting? I'm trying to understand the service, not easy.

"Create a complete profile" -> So I can create some kind of Facebook-like profile?

You need to improve the writing on the front page a lot, try to find a way to better explain it. Don't try to explain every feature on the homepage, but search for the one main thing that you are awesome/different at, and explain that. Good luck.

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Thanks, these are really good suggestions!

These are my complaints too. I spent three seconds on the page before going back because I already know about a lot of "autoblogging" service and have no interest in them, and from what I read, that's all I think your product does.

If it does something else or if it does something better, you should be explicit about it. I want to know right away, I don't want to be met with marketing-speak about how easy it is to "share my entire content", which is a very amorphous task. A better thing to say in that prime real estate would be "Email your content, see it on web page", or whatever it is you do, and then have the line about ease in a tertiary position somewhere, like a tagline instead of the main point of the thing.

Thanks for the feedback.

May be it just me, but it's not that unclear what service is. It's your Blog+Photostream+Videostream. It might be confusing cause its something of a new concept and you seem to have caught the usual/known features like Autoposting and email posting, but that's not where we defferentiate ourseleves.

Just a tip, if someone tells you that something is unclear to them, a response just telling them that you don't know why it's unclear to them is both unhelpful to that person as well as to yourself.

I also find the homepage unclear as to what everything is and why I would use it. I basically think you need one clear message rather than a rotating message, plus screenshots or links to live or demo "sprreds". You can also consider a demo video, ala Dropbox's homepage, that explains in a fun way what you offer.

Where do you differentiate yourselves then? is it just the convenience of having an combination of different services in one place?

Heres my Sprred - http://kuldeep.sprred.com. you can also see how its different than tumblr/blogger. It offers better videos and photo support and lets you create a complete personal website with all your info and content.

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