Outspokes: Startup Chapter One of Many

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11 points·avk··5 comments

The beginning of one Berkeley company's story: from class project to web startup.

Avk, it is offtopic but I think your signup form (which asks for credit card number) might scare a normal user into believing that his data is not safe. The browser says that HTTPs page contains some unauthentic elements + the fields where you ask for card information do little to build confidence.

Asking for credit card information is a huge thing and either show in the form that you are concerned about security or better still use an external trusted vendor such as PayPal or Authorize.net

We'll definitely look into that. We just moved from Paypal to Braintree and are still working out the kinks. Thanks for letting us know!

We recently added a script include that referenced the google AJAX api via http instead of https. That was causing the scary message. It's been fixed now.

I agree we need to add some copy and badging to reassure the user that we store all cc information securely through our payment gateway.

Good luck on this! I first heard of you through Sean, and the idea itself seemed to definitely have some legs - enabling live site collaboration should print cash. I do wonder about how the product is defensible. If I have one piece of advice, perhaps in follow up postings, add some lessons learned, inner links, and all that goodness that brings you here.

Sean was great to work with and we're definitely planning to add all kinds of goodness for how we got here :)

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