Show HN: Inventing new word
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I don't use Facebook, so my experience of the site is likely to have been very limited:
"Let only people that" - let only people that what?
Done link - huh? Done what? I see no responses. If I click the link, I get an error.
Links off to Facebook? Why push your traffic away?
What are the icons before and after the phrase meant to do? The first one looks like a radio button which is very confusing.
Might be because I have ads blocked, but the navbar is illegible. I can't see any branding either.
It's difficult to navigate when everything has a white background with no borders, and not aligned with each other visually. More standard design elements (submit button that looks like a button, reload link with curved arrows) would make the learning curve less steep, even if the language doesn't really make sense.
Also the need to log in via facebook is super annoying. I'm guessing that you're trying to avoid junk submissions? I'd rather fill out a captcha to do a one-off submission than to sign up to a site that I might never use again. If the site was really entertaining though - and it has the potential to be - frequent posters would be tempted to log in to get rid of the captcha.
As it is, despite seeing some good seed definitions, I quickly gave up after it asked for a facebook login. Look at your logs and I suspect that most others on HN feel the same way.
You should let people contribute the words anonymously and then vote them up. Also, what are you charging for?
Sent from my iPad (finally that's relevant)
Seems fun if you're a language nerd, like I am.
Commercial uses: Product/brand naming
This whole system is setup not for money, but to change the world in an aesthetically beautiful way - with words. Hundreds of thousands of scientific papers, text instructions, and life situations require good, clear and concise images in order to be better remembered and help people became more intelligent.
* It's not clear what the web app does.
* The design is confusing; it does not lead the user well.
* To add value to the world, you either have to solve a hard problem or create significant delight (entertainment). The idea of creating new words is amusing, but I doubt there is any market for it. One of the most important things about entrepreneurship is choosing your markets well. It's much easier if (1) you choose an existing market instead of creating a new one and (2) the market is hungry.
* I do not have a facebook account.
If those are user generated suggestions then maybe you should add an approval process.