Show HN: My project helps you create kick ass mobile sites
mobilova.com
mobilova.com
He's doing a "Show HN" to get some feedback. Maybe we could all be a bit more constructive? Calling somebody's work a "joke" or an april fools prank isn't really all that nice. There's plenty of other places than HN I can go to watch somebody's work get needlessly trashed.
I agree his stuff needs work, but I bet all of our projects (for those that have actually made something) needs some level of work.
The vitriol here is kinda toxic, take a chill pill people.
After all, this is what it looks like on my iPhone: http://i.imgur.com/KNqzy.png
And searching 'TechCrunch' for 'Mobilova' returns zero results, despite Mobilova's claim that they were featured on TechCrunch.
In addition, the testimonials each have New York Times icon logos next to them. This doesn't add credibility; it's obvious the New York Times didn't write those reviews.
Check Techcrunck UK , and look for GmbhNews: Old Brand. Check Killerstartup, and look for GmbhNews: Old Brand
Check the press section, you will find some of those infos. Thanks for your great feedbck, I'll create new facvicon, I wasn't aware that those favicons are exclusively NYT favicons (it's a suggestion of the designer)
Other than that, my #1 piece of feedback is that after pressing the large red button on the homepage, the user is expecting to see his or her mobilized site. Instead, the user sees a message saying: "Thank you very much for trying us. Your submission will be reviewed, and should be added shortly if accepted..."
I recommend checking out dudamobile.com for a good example of this flow.
Second, asking the user to solve a captcha right after pressing the large red button is not a good experience. I recommend including the captcha as part of the form, or not including it at all.
* Your video says "GMBH", but your website says "MOBIlova".
* "Remote the dots" and "remove the domain" do not make it at all obvious that you mean the TLD.
* The worst thing, though, is that you didn't show us what happens once you hit "MOBILIZE." Does Mobilova then host a mobile version of the site? Do I get a static list of files? What's the point of the category dropdown?
I tried it out, using BoingBoing as an example. It took me to a page that says: "Thank you very much for trying us. Your submission will be reviewed, and should be added shortly if accepted, meanwhile add following code in your site header or template, to take full control of your mobile site"
If accepted? What? I literally have no idea what's going on. What happened to less than two minutes?
The second option that we offers is based on stylesheets, that's the option with the floating tab, if you use it, we'll create a mobile stylesheet and host it on Amazon S3 /and backup on Google storage , and send you the link for media query linking. Working to get all these infos on the front page now. As for remove the dots, I'm a bit concern that, non techie folks don't know what TLD means, do you have any other alternative suggestion? Thanks
Advice. If your service is centered around the generation of quality content formatting for other people's sites, better make sure your own house is in order first (both on mobile and in modern browsers). Otherwise it's like buying cabinets from a carpenter who conspired to already cut off half of his fingers and both of his thumbs.
All the shades of yellow are subtly different
The font sizes are all over the place
The fonts themselves are all different, you seem to be using 4 different ones
Whitespace proportions are wrong
The red and the yellow don't compliment each other
The shading effect in the red looks horrible
What the hell is going on in the footer?
Why are there full stops after people's names in the quotes?
The embedded video has a higher z-index than the form for creating the mobile site
I didn't give it a try because the signup form looked daunting.
Post again then?