Hacker News Reader

Comment by Irregardless | Hacker News Reader

Gaining trust is key if you want people to give you personal and financial information, and the 30 second Bootstrap website really isn't inspiring any confidence -- especially the visible seams in your pasted together background, the complete lack of form validation, and all the blank links at the bottom.

View on HN

Coinbase is using basic Bootstrap, they seem to be doing fine, selling over $1M USD per month: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/42587245753/coinbase-is-now-se...

To the point, trusting Coinbase for a successful bitcoin purchase can be touch and go.

The difference is that YC has invested in Coinbase, which automatically gives them tons of credibility.

I'm constantly amused at the nit-picky things people seem to use to determine whether a site is trustworthy.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense to hand your address and bitcoins to anyone with a half-finished Bootstrap website, zero contact information, and zero information about their payment/delivery process.

zero contact information, and zero information about their payment/delivery process

Those are a lot better reasons to have doubts than whether or not their background has a seam in it.

Yes, I'm sure you are talking about the trustworthiness of the company in general (and thus they ability to flee with your money).

But it doesn't help me to think of all the shitty and careless web interface of most of the online banking sites I've used.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com