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This is a project I just launched - would love to get any feedback and see how/if it would be useful for people. Thanks!
http://ribbot.com
http://ribbot.com
Feedback:
- You should link to a demo page and/or have screenshots. As you mention in the HN comments, the Support page is a demo page, but that's not obvious from the site itself. Also, the demo page should have a decent amount of sample content, comments, etc; the Support page currently has one entry and zero comments.
- There should be a sign up button on every page (e.g. the Pricing page). The header is one possible location.
- On the one hand it makes sense that Ribbot Support's Home page is Ribbot Support, on the other hand it feels weird that after I click on Ribbot Support, there's no way to go back to Ribbot.com without hitting the back button.
- On the pricing page, change "Num Users" to "Number of Users".
- The pricing seems a little excessive at the upper tiers, but that's just a personal opinion. Usually when prices go above a few hundred dollars, pricing charts will say something like "call us!"
- For ad-supported vs paid, it's not clear what kind of ads there are, how obtrusive they are, etc.
- Nice domain name. It's screaming for a cute frog logo =)
- Just a personal opinion, but you should add a little background color to the site. Nothing glaring... but there's too much white right now, IMO.
1. Wordpress/buddypress integration through some plugin. I want it to use my wordpress site accounts for login.
2. own domain/sub domain support(like tumblr)
3. Custom theme(like tumblr)
4. User role and authorization(make some users moderator)
5. I feel pricing is too high for ad-free versions. Paying $49/month for 1000 users look like too much investment without enough returns. You may want to reconsider pricing.
Edit: I see going to profile shows an option to change the user name. You should consider sending the user there to set a user name upon first sign in.
Bug report: Submitting a new post with just a title, and without the text gave me a 500 error. When I clicked back to fill in the text, the submit button was still disabled showing the "Submitting" text. So I had to reload the page.
The support page on the site is also a demo of the product: http://support.ribbot.com/