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Ask HN: Review my startup, mindlog.co

4 points1simonsayz9 comments

Hi guys, just finished the creation of landing page for a new project of mine, web app MindLog.co. I would love to have your input on it and what you think of the app's idea.

URL: http://mindlog.co

Who I am: I have been reading HackerNews for sometime now but just recently started to post. Not that I didn't want to participate but simply because I didn't really feel like it was my place to do so. I left the web design and development world when I sold my business a couple years back. In the meantime, I became a bean counter(accountant). Which mean, I was pretty much out of the loop of the tech world. Ever since, I really wanted to start something(startup) that could help people and not just crunch numbers at a desk. Its why I started MindLog.co.

My idea behind MindLog.co was to create a mix of pinterest, tumblr with the ease to post without ever needing to leave the website you are currently visiting thanks to a pop-up bookmarklet. Its born from the saying "scratch your own itch". MindLog is perfect for me because it allow me to post links, images, quote and book's notes in a matter of seconds(3 steps at most). My personnal blog is the perfect example, a pinterest but for blogging; only 500 character or less posts. Everything that I really want to remember like; how to, marketing tips, links, etc is there.

P.S. The design is based on the theme crytal from themeforest and the MVP on "Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it" from Joel Gascoigne.

Great work! Congratulations on launching your landing page. The website design looks slick and I love the choice of colours. Did you do the design work yourself?

From a product standpoint - mindlog looks like Pocket meets Pinterest meets Evernote. Is that the intent? If it isn't you need to rethink your copy.

I would say one of the major things is that you should move the "registration" module to somewhere above the fold and focus on it more.

Also I suggest you make the tagline bigger and feature it more prominently in the middle of the cover image. This way, you can take off the "Q: What can mindlog be used for?" from the overlay and just have something like "Jack uses mindlog to...."

Last thing: the far left hover screenshot popup was broken for me, the other 3 worked perfectly fine.

Good luck!

Thanks for the great feedbacks asdfprou. I think I will redesign it so that call to action or registration module is more prominent. If you ever need help with something, just send me a quick email at 1[at]simonsayz.ca

I would suggest you ask someone to help you with the text on your website, preferably a native English speaker. The first thing that struck me on the site was the poor written English.

I mean this in the most polite way. Other than that keep up the good work!

Ouch. ;-) For the text, you are right, I am an french from Quebec but I didn't think it was so bad. Thanks for the input spleeder. I am going to work on that.

I'm planning to visit there soon, if I know English only, would I able to get around?

If you're going to a city (e.g. Montreal), then yes.

In montreal yes but probably not in the smaller town. Hope you will enjoy your trip.

It looks interesting, and might even be useful to some ppl. But what's your business model here? How are you going to make money?

Truth be told I saw it more as social network which basically mean; free right now.

So AznHisoka, still planning to visit Quebec? I hope we didn't discourage you with the french/english thing.

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