Ask YC: Can you provide Feedback on my customizable homepage start-up?
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We're always looking for new input. Even criticisms are appreciated.
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Mark
Unfortunately, the page looks ugly because I suck at design, and you're making me do the design. So it ends up looking really tacky.
Perhaps this "click anywhere and type/edit" technology can be used to annotate webpages (or even iPaper PDFs). I know I'd use it for those purposes if I could.
What if as an option you allowed other sites to install an "annotate my site" script you provided, which acts as a lead-in to direct people back to your site with a link or with a "find other pages like this" type of thing? You could even provide a cross-reference between annotated sites this way, and provide a centralized site sort of like a directory of these sites...
I think your click and type anywhere technology, which is very cool, could be applied to other fields as a feature, but I don't think it'd work best as a social network.
Best of luck.
We're almost back full time on our web app and it was frustrationg trying to find our niche. It looks as though we are going to open up ClutterMe to external sites.
We're thinking two levels of service, the first being something along the lines of an iFrame and the second level is allowing users to create accounts from within their site.
If you want to be included in the conversation and/or want this software on your site, send us a ping, or just keep track of the blog for updates. (blog.clutterme.com)
Use a colored header and a footer. There are two important reasons to do this: 1) it keeps the non-editable content seperate from the editable content, which makes your site's function clearer. 2) it maintains the webpage metaphor that people have grown accustomed to. My reaction to your site for the first half-second was "wtf?", which I mainly attribute to the fact that the page design gave no indication of where I should look to understand it.
Use directional arrows instead of a paw for the "move" icon. The paw looks friendly, but it makes no sense ;)
Demonstrate the fonts in the drop-down font menu. Ditto for sizes.
Don't allow the "People on ClutterMe" section to load more than one person with the same photo.
Not bad. However, I agree with aneesh. Probably better used for annotation.
Very simple, but really nice. It needs some work on usability and design though. If you get that rigth it's a winner. There are some great possibilities in sharing pages too.