Numu.me (beta)

(1) On arriving at the homepage, I had no idea what your start-up did. I had to navigate to About ("We take any web address and create an easy to share numerical code that connects to that address. We call them numurls, or numus for short.")

Please explain your product succinctly and clearly somewhere on the homepage.

(2) Your search-box will not let me input any text. Windows 7, Chrome 22.0.1.

Edit: So, I misunderstood. I thought you entered a url into homepage, with spat out some type of numerical code, you could then enter into the navigation bar. In particular, I thought you owned a numerical extension, i.e., www.something.11, which you were using to create purely numerical urls.

Actually, the process is as follows: (a) you get a code through the new.php page (linked at the bottom of the homepage), (b) you're give a code, (c) in order go to that website you have to go to your homepage and enter it.

That's ridiculous.

Why would I use that? It adds an unnecessary middle-step to navigating to a website. I'd usually give friends my url directly (which is easy to remember), or say something like "I read a good Economic article recently. Search 'New Progressivism Economist'."

This idea has been done to death many times before.

-Someone creates a centralized name/address tuple space (essentially just a key-value store.) -Tuples are claimed from that space. -The value of the remaining address space increases up to a certain point, at which the remaining unclaimed names are too long or annoying, and/or everyone moves on to a different system or service.

I enter 42 and press enter.

    Numubot says bad numu. Please confirm and try again.

I am dissapoint.

It doesn't say what it is, all I see is a large input box which doesn't accept any keyboard input (Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on OSX ML)

Edit: Ah I see, it accepts numbers only. I'm guessing when you create a 'numu' the user has to go to your website and enter the code to retrieve the web url.. I think your home page should make this more obvious.

It's like Bango! numbers, all over again…

http://bango.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/115/~/what...

It does not seem to work in IE8 (I am @work and not allowed to install other browsers). What is the goal of Numu please? :-)

Awesome. I can store my passwords here. And the icing on the cake? It's so beautiful.

reddit comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/11qkyx/tell_me_why...