And as another poster said, you shouldn't brag about stuff that's little more than basic functionality. Sorting by date is not a cutting-edge feature. Neither is not spamming the user's friends. Or "easy access to full size." Listing those sorts of things as features makes it look like you have so few real features that you had to stretch to fill out your list.
Finally, you need to figure out what your audience is. It's extremely unlikely that you're going to beat Flickr at their own game, so you need to find a niche they aren't serving well. Frankly, I'm having trouble seeing what that niche would be, but if you want to succeed you're going to have to find it.
The email feature is great for keeping friends up-to-date with what you've been doing. When you email a link, there's a decision people have to make as to whether they should look now or later. With embedded thumbnails they can see at a glance how interesting your latest photos are to them. I use the feature to keep up with old friends and former coworkers, as well as family, and it's the feature that generates the most excitement.
There are sites out there that spam your friends after you invite them to see your private album, and sites that don't give you access to the full-size photos you've uploaded, so those features are worth mention. If the bulleted list distracts from the main distinguishing features, do you think I should just make "other features" a link to a separate page?
I'm definitely not trying to beat flickr at its own game. Still, I am trying to find the right niche. Parents like ourdoings.com when I show it to them, but I still haven't found the market where people's hair is on fire.
Beyond that, I would also criticize your choice of domain name. It is good that you are using real words in your domain name, but the words "ourdoing" has nothing to do with photos, time or email, which I take it is the essence what you are offering. A domain like "bestphotoemail.com" would serve you better even if its not your brand name.
I do like your logo, conceptually at least. It needs work and should be more prominent.
Glad you mostly like the logo. I might at some point make it more prominent on the front page. On people's sites within ourdoings.com, I plan on leaving it less prominent. I want them to feel ownership. Having my logo take the primo real estate of the upper left corner would not serve that purpose.
A novel about design might not serve me well, since I don't have enough design sense to tell what advice to accept/reject. If there's a basic, obvious principle or two I've violated, I might actually fix it if you tell me specifically. Design isn't likely to be my highest priority any time soon, though.
Timeline based albums.
Everybody things they are good at everything. There are two things you are not good at - copywriting and design. So long you do not learn that, you will continue to fail with that site. That's why people specialise, so they get good at something. For example:
"Your photos are _automatically_ organized by date."
What were you thinking? You think that "automatically" is important to most people looking at your site? No, it's not! That's a technical feature, it's not a dream of people. You are not conveying the correct impression.
Your title is "Amazingly simple photo sharing". Okay, first of all, "Amazing" has been overused and means nothing. "Simple", well everything is simple once you know how to use it. "Photo sharing". So the focus of your site is sharing? Like, you make the process of "sharing" very simple?
I did not read a single one of your features, because there are just too many, and you do not highlight the most important.
Back to the point - what I'm trying to say is just stick with pimping and developing a timeline based approach to storing albums. Make this your prime feature and design your site around it.
And by the way - you are NOT a designer. Go work in mcdonalds for 2 weeks, you'll make enough money to hire a romanian designer for $200 that will make you a great site.
Your site looks like it time travelled from 1998.
I used to think "amazing" was useless marketingspeak until I saw reddit stories succeed or fail based on the word. Yes, simple is absolutely what I emphasize. Yes, the purpose is to share photos. It isn't a social networking site for photography enthusiasts like flickr, etc.; it's a simple way to share photos.
I realize I am not a designer. I'm poor enough at it that I might not recognize good design if I saw it, except in terms of usability. That aspect of the site will have to wait. Luckily, people seem to get a positive experience when attention is drawn to content they're interested in, and the current default style accomplishes that.
You needed a lot of time to do a lot of nothing, and if you ever want succeed, you'll need to change that.
The reason why I'm not changing the page in response to your particular feedback about emphasizing automatic is that it's not coming from a potential customer. Explaining to non-potential-customers why other people would value this feature is not a high priority. Potential customers (people with little free time) will recognize immediately why having something done for them is valuable.
This entire round of feedback is for one change made in response to Paul Buchheit's complaint last time. I've made other changes in response to customer feedback, but didn't ask for news.yc feedback on all of them.
Do your thing, bro.
I did mod your first comment up and did no downmodding, since I read sincere feedback and it's obvious you did at least look.
But that's just my personal opinion.
That said, yeah, there's probably a lot of people who don't put their photos on line yet who might go for something less 'cool'.