* First off, the front page took an incredibly long time to load. According to firebug's net console there were 23 requests totalling over 2 mb and took 32.35 seconds to load. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but there has got to be a way to cut down on that. Just about everything I'm seeing is an image rather than styled text.
* When creating a new album, why do I have to give you my information _and_ the recipients info right off the bat? You could probably postpone at least the recipient's info until I'm done. (I haven't finished creating anything, so this may be moot, but what if I decide there should be another recipient as well?)
* It would be nice to have a 'check availability' function for the subdomain that the letters will live at
* ok I just created this album, got a subdomain, etc... and clicked 'write a letter for XXXXX' right--now you want me to enter my info all over again?! I just did! I understand now (hint: I didn't get this point from your front page. The page shown right after you create an album is much mroe informative) that this is for multiple people to collab on some letters for a special time in somebody else's life, and you need to get all those people's info too. But you should probably remember me since I filled this stuff out not five minutes ago.
* What if I want to attach links, videos, files, etc... rather than just images?
* How do I get back to the root url of my newly created album after I have successfully written a letter? I see no navigation bringing me back to XXXX.fromabirdie.com/ from XXXX.fromabirdie.com/letter/thanks
* from my albums root url, I would like to see (at least a preview of) the letters already written, not have to click a link to another page. The whole reason I'm here is these letters, why make me jump through hoops?
Sorry if I sounded a little brash at all, I just did a really quick run through and jotted my immediate thoughts down. Of all of these issues, I would say the speed of the front page loading should be a major concern. Is anyone else having it load this slow? Besides that, I really do like the concept and can see myself using it not as much for my girlfriend's birthday, but possibly for a cousin's graduation or for a coworker who is moving on or retiring. Right now I'm working as a student developer for my Uni's Residences Dept, along with a handful of other people, three of which are graduating in a week. I think being able to set up one album for all three of them would be great, rather than having to do one for each.
Once again, I really like the concept, and hope to see future iterations be born, because I think it has a lot of potential!