Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pavel_lishin | Hacker News Reader

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Watched the video, some complaints.

* 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?

+++ there is no need to tell me how to fill a form (although it's not friendly for the user), and of course I first want to see what will I get (after typing my credentials in the unknown website's form).

yeah, updating the description: you will be surprise on how many people don't know what to do with a form or how to fill it.

Thanks for the great feedback pavel, The Video is a bit outdated and I'm still tweaking the new one. (GMBH is the old brand) working to fix that, when you hit mobilize now, there are two options, a mobile webapps is created in the choosen category and listed in the mobile portal http://www.nicezine.com , I'll add a description at the front page to make it clear.

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

Use javascript to automatically extract this information from the URL that they enter.

You can get the info from the RSS feed, like site name, site url, category etc.

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