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Show HN: CLOR – Share your YC application with investors

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19 pointsjeff3939 comments

I call it "sign-up driven development", or "sign up to find out what you are signing up for".

Sorry for any confusion, we tried to be clear but must have missed the mark :)

Here's how it works - Create an account, import your YC application or enter information about your startup manually, then send the shareable link for your startup profile to investors by Twitter or Email.

Sorry for the deconstructive feedback. What I was trying to convey is - maybe move the registration part to the end of the process? Or better, taking hint from Ashley-Medison, "a new VC just browsed your submission! register to contact her!"

I think many in your target group may be registration-aversed, even if well intended.

[LAST EDIT]: Now that I've looked more closely, in this case it's not obvious how to "grant access without registration", as you need HN creds to grab the application. Plus there's the inevitable issue of "investors" being spammed and unregistering. So, in your specific case, this onboarding flow seems reasonable.

Love it... "sign up driving development". Pretty funny.

Hey HN, my co-founder and I created this little service after Thanksgiving to help founders share their startups with investors. We’re using the tool ourselves and figured other people might like it too.

If you have any questions or feedback you can reach me at jeff@clor.com

I can neither visit the "Privacy Policy" nor "Terms of Service".

Thanks for the heads up, we'll update the links now.

Yeah... the site is so sparse and light on information that it doesn't make me want to even spend my time signing up.

Questions:

- What does CLOR even mean? - Why have an about link that just points to the home page? - What is the bigger picture for doing this? Current market size is "startups that applied for YC" which doesn't make me think there is much going on here.

Just providing some honest feedback. I do wish you all the best!!

Very cool. I just signed up as an investor :)

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