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Ask HN: Please review my app 'Earthquakes Monitor' for Windows Phone

3 pointsgspyrou4 comments

Hi , I am a long time reader of HackerNews and this is my fist time posting a Ask HN! Earthquakes Monitor is a Windows Phone app that is designed to provide quakes information in near real time by using Toast Notifications & Live Tiles.

App landing page : http://plusapps.eu/Earthquakes-Monitor.html

Any feedback on the application and the landing page would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, George.

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Landing page (I have no Windows phone):

The price is in US$ only - you may want to consider adding other currencies, perhaps even with a GeoIP lookup.

Blatant typo in "full fearuted trial".

Phone image looks like it was scaled up from a lower resolution, better find a high-res image.

I find the image browsing controls (dots at the bottom) a bit awkward and non-obvious.

You may want to consider removing the AT&T and Samsung marks, that spells legal trouble if the wrong person looks at your page, especially since you're not acknowledging them.

Thanks a lot ! Fixed the typo and I will check again the images.

Clickable: http://plusapps.eu/Earthquakes-Monitor.html

Instead of "PlusApps.eu" in the upper left, I would place the name of the app itself.

Should the app name be "Earthquake Monitor" without an 's'?

First paragraph syntax, an extra space before the period "Seismological Centre ."

Also what's the unique value here: is it real time notifications, or the graphic display, or something else? What ever that key unique feature is, make that the one thing you highlight.

To do this, I would change the structure of the landing page slightly: move the "Features" section down (there are too many features here that take away from your key feature) and insert one big "key feature" section there instead.

For example, if the key feature is real time notifications, put a static info graphic there to explain why that feature along is worth purchase price. And all the other features are, therefore, a "bonus" for the price.

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