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What exactly is Volley? It's not very clear as to what the purpose is from this page alone, and I couldn't find any links to learn more.

Why would I signup for something based on one line of text?

Volley gets you introductions to people you're looking for. We do this by helping you connect with people over actionable requests (Eg. “Looking to grab coffee with a developer for advice around building a NodeJS API”). These requests are sent to and acted on by a community built of your existing contacts and their contacts. By completing requests, the user gains karma (similar model to stack overflow) that could be spent on things like featured requests (think: featured listing on ebay) or held for community status.

Sounds excellent, why don't you say this on the site?

This.

I went on the page and couldn't for the life of me work out what the service was for or about. I had been redirected to http://volleyit.co/sign-up so I even manually took the "sign-up" bit out of the URL and tried again, but just ended up back at the same unhelpful page. I even tried to scroll up and down on the page in case it was one of these new-fangled non-obvious scoll pages - but to no avail.

Getting introduced and paying it forward sounds all very worthy to be sure, but I'm not giving my gmail credentials to something when I don't know what I'm supposed to be getting in return.

Did I miss something obvious?

Yep. There is no way in hell I'm going to enter my personal information on a page for a service that offers no information about itself. This is new web service 101. Come on, guys.

>What is Volley?

Volley gets you introductions to people you’re looking for. We do this by making it easy for you to send a request out to your network and for this request to propagate across your network’s network.

Currently this network is made up of your gmail contacts, but we'll be enabling you to add contacts from other networks in the future. Volley is a desktop web platform currently. After over 700 successful introductions facilitated in just over 3 weeks, we're shifting our focus to build Volley on mobile.

Love the interface, but the landing page should be more informative.

Maybe experiment with showing the cards before actually giving my email.

Like by questions, Steve Jobs asks me what's my name, I give it, ... Same for email, gmail, ...

BTW, I post it here because I couldn't post an answer to your card.

Thanks for the feedback. It's clear that we need to communicate more about what Volley does prior to asking you to sign-up. To date, this hasn't been an issue and our thinking was that people were intrigued by the limited copy on the landing page, signing up to learn more. In retrospect, it's likely that those who have signed up to date have had a little more context about what Volley is since many signups are coming through referrals.

Took me a while to realise that I should click on the tiny icon in the bottom left corner to see an example on what a profile will look like. (I didn't even know it's a site for profile up to that point) I would at least add a short description or tagline to the landing page.

Your comment really underscores the need for us to be far more descriptive in our landing page about what Volley does. Our assumption that our limited copy is alluring has been clearly invalidated.

What if I only have a first name?

Why are the profile images so large for such a small little circle being displayed? (on the sign-up page)

As I fill out information why is there a circle next to my typed information? Is it portraying some information via color? If so, it's lost on me (and many other color blind people, presumably)

I filled out the three text fields and clicked to sign up without gmail and it said "Issues with information below". But they all have information?

What's the plus sign for? It seems to want me to upload a file. For what purpose?

+ sign is to choose a profile picture, which also changes the background of the landing page. The circles within the text fields are color confirmation states, turning green when the string you've entered is a complete name, email, etc.

Thanks for bringing to light the shortcomings of color confirmation; we should have text confirmation states instead.

Sorry about the confusion! I'd love to walk you through things if you're up for it. Just shoot me an email at mike [at] volleyit.co

So, uh, what is it?

"Create a Request, Get Introduced & Pay it Forward"

Oh, that's what it is. Wait, what is it?

Great work guys, onboarding is well done, I started using the product only 5 minutes in.

How do I integrate gmail after signing up without?

good site, room for improvement

Thanks - our major priority is to build Volley for mobile. We designed the experience with mobile in mind from the beginning but sought to validate on the web. I'd welcome your suggestions for improvements

linkedin integration

coming soon!

DOPE AS FUCK!!!

oh Mike, whata goof

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