Show HN: A half-year viral project that did not go viral
makemytale.com
makemytale.com
1) On the front page, there are no explanations / visuals on what your app does. 2) If I wanted to try it out, I'd have to sign up with Facebook, where you're requesting virtually every permission available to request.
result => I don't care if this is the best thing since sliced bread, the perceived barrier to entry is too high.
I agree on first point, I will expand "Your Facebook data will become a crazy book." into something more visual and clear. But I appreciate any ideas on the second. We've tried to limit the required permissions to as few as possible, the thing is the more we get, the more funky book we can provide. Initial presumption was that the stylish look of the website will give some confidence for the users to trust their "photos" and "friends" for a moment, but it doesn't. And it is somewhat weird to put any "Privacy Protected" badges to a website, that should be fun and stuff. In addition people do not share their books. That is strange as most of them say that their books are really funny and cool. So they should want to share them?
As per data, see if you could do it step-by-step. Ask for photos first, let users create something. As they use the product, offer to create more dynamic content and then ask for additional permissions.
Hopefully that will get your users started and once they see some value will get them further engaged.