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I like it. Design seems a little dated - its missing the rounded-ness of today's apps - but very functional. How do you plan on seeding enough entrepreneurs and angel investors to make it useful? Sadly, I think if you used the word "crowdfunding" you'd have people signing up in droves. Any plans to explore that avenue?

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Thanks a ton for the feedback. Can you give me some more information about the rounded-ness? :)

Well, I would have to think about crowd funding as my main motive was to keep the site as an entry point for serious angel investors to search apps based on their selection criteria.

I made Rounded-ness up for lack of a better word. Check out https://parse.com/ or http://www.hipmunk.com/ The look and feel is close to your button on the bottom of your main page. Rounded corners, bold fonts, subtle gradients, drop shadows, icons with depth and shine elements. The button is fine, but the chart on your front page looks more Windows-XP while sites these days take their cues from iOS.

Thanks for the clarification. I do agree they look trendier. I am a developer not a designer but I will keep that in mind.

If you have no designer in your team, it's quite useful to learn to become a bit of a designer yourself (good skill to acquire). Truth is, first impression matters, and no matter how good your algorithm or service is, if the site doesn't look attractive customers might never get to even try it.

So while some design polishing sounds like "chores" with low ROI, they can actually increase convergence rates with subtle touches (e.g. rounding corners) resulting in a great overall ROI.

Hmm, true. I will have to push the redesigning task up the ladder then. Do you have any other comments on the usability or the general concept?

You would have to know a lot of serious entrepreneurs and a lot of serious angel investors to make that happen. Crowdsourcing adds a regulatory hurdle, but it makes the money easier.

I will give it a thought. I appreciate your honest feedback.

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