Tell HN: We have had our 100 thousandth bookmark and wanted to tell you about it
We posted on HN to begin with and got a mixed response, however we got some great comments on how we could improve the site. Whilst this was going on a few blogs covered us - Venturebeat, Killerstartups, thenextweb and we began to slowly grow traffic.
What was exciting for us was that people from all corners of the Earth were using the site! To us novices this was really cool!
Whilst this was going on we posted more and more articles on HN to try and find out what people wanted from bookmarking. We emailed our userbase to try and find out what they liked and more importantly what they didn't like about our (their) site. We then collated all this info and set about improving the site. Given that we launched on HN, we wanted to share with you what Favilous looks like now.
We have:
Added an import facility from Delicious
Amended the community page and done it in such a way that we can now keep on top of spam.
Completely overhauled the homepage so as more people understand the site and sign up and share useful sites with you.
Stripped back some of the functionality as some felt it was too complicated - therefore menu's are cleaner, options are simpler and instructions are better explained. We hope it is now a more straightforward bookmarking tool.
Added a tag based view so that users who are more familiar to Delicious will now be able to use Favilous in a Delicious type way.
Sharpened up the panels and uploaded more background images for you to choose from.
Given users the option to choose a different theme this means you do not have to have a background image at all and this improves performance significantly.
In the interests of building a sustainable product, we are currently finalising a list of paid features which we believe our community will value. Having conducted our own research we will be looking to implement Bookmarking of RSS Feeds, Archiving and Search of web content, plus some features which are unique to us. You guys helped us get to this position and so we come to you again - what you would most like to see from Favilous (or just a bookmarking site in general).
Thanks for all the help in getting us this far!
Steve