Please help us beat the clock.
Have you tried offering an incentive?
rougefeta, you need a Tech Co-Founder, but do you really think you're going to get a quality TCF this way? If you need a translator to read your "offering" then you are doing it wrong.
1) What are you trying to accomplish? 2) How is this a product? 3) Wow.
rougefeta, your intentions are not aligned with your output/implementation. I wish you the best and hope the comments on this thread have been helpful. You can do it, thank the stars you did not invest a ton of capital yet. Keep us informed of your intentions and progress!
for example:
abc\ndef
shows up as
abc def
and
abc\n\ndef
shows up as
abc
def
Tellin' me!??! Sherlock!
This thing sounded like such a crazy idea that I was laughing half the time building it. At some point I had even made offered incentives automatically end with ", darling"
On what we are trying to accomplish: the "bloody brilliant" comment in the incentive link offers one explanation. Our explanation is simpler: we wanted to make some people answer our emails, and didn't know how.
Agreed: This is the most confusing thing I have seen in recent memory.
...what is it?
We are not spammers. This is in Arc, but written from scratch.
We had changed "pays" to "helps" at an earlier stage.
1) Better copy. I (and others here I'd imagine) have no idea what exactly your site is. A short blurb that's a couple of sentences long that explains what is helps greatly.
2) Post this as its own post instead of a comment in another post. This way it looks a little spammy (which I understand is not your intention). Make sure you mention how it's built in Arc in your title, and post a story on http://arclanguage.org as well (if you haven't already). Beware that new accounts posting links often get marked as spam, that's why pg recommends you have an account for a few weeks before doing a Show HN post, which would be the type of post you'd do in your case.
Good luck!
What you need to do is present up front the overall flow (ideally graphically; like 5 steps to completion at the bottom of the page and indicate which have been completed/what is being done now/what is in the future. Do this with graphics and very minimal (1-3 words) text. Writing 3 words to communicate something takes longer than writing 30.
I got pissed when I filled in something, clicked submit, and then the next page was "why?" before it would accept; at that point I bounced.
I'm not sure if arc makes this easier than something else.