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FetchMe··on Please critique my service; I am a masochist, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks iurisilvio!

We're definitely seeing a common theme here, it looks like we're really not telling or showing you guys enough up front to explain what the service is / does / is valuable. We're definitely going to have to work on that.

Basically when you sign up we pull in your links from Facebook (and if you connect them; Twitter / Tumblr) to your FetchMe profile. From there you can organize them into collections. The idea is that we're taking your existing activity on the social web, and making it more useful by helping you curate it / find it later. I encourage you to give it a shot, as I'd love to hear what you think about the service itself.

We'd actually just discussed yesterday whether the sign in button / call to action was clear enough, so your point on that helps a lot.

Thanks for the feedback.

FetchMe··on Please critique my service; I am a masochist, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks Isammoc!

With the service you're collecting links for your own purposes. It's to help you save and curate them into collections to be revisited later by yourself, or by anyone that you choose to share them with. Can you clarify what you mean by "What will I see (screenshots, demo page ?)".

You can currently only sign up with Facebook, but you can connect your Tumblr and Twitter accounts as well. That's what we're referring to when we use the plural for social accounts. We've thought about letting people sign in with Twitter as well.

Home within the context of the service is your profile - which you can get to by clicking our logo or by clicking "My Profile". Is this counter intuitive?

We use your email to send you updates about your account, but you have the option to turn these off via your account settings. We don't use your location at all. We could definitely clarify this a bit better on the permissions page.

On the Legal page, that section refers to content that you upload manually to Fetch.Me (not brought in through your social accounts). You can't currently do that with the site, but it's something we've thought about allowing you to do. You wouldn't have any problem with links to content hosted elsewhere, regardless of it's IP status. We might want to remove that section for now haha.

Thanks again for your feedback. This stuff is highly appreciated!

FetchMe··on Please critique my service; I am a masochist, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Let me explain here what our service does, since our landing page is not quite clear:

1. You connect with Facebook (and optionally Twitter/Tumblr)

2. We bring in all the links you have shared over time on those platforms (not your personal pics or status updates, just links)

3. You can create collections of your items and share them back to twitter/fb if you like

It's taking your existing activity from the social web, and helping you save and curate it.

FetchMe··on Please critique my service; I am a masochist, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Again, good feedback. The landing page clearly needs work. We will tackle that as soon as possible.
FetchMe··on Please critique my service; I am a masochist, tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks for the feedback. We've been thinking about making such changes to the landing page ourselves, and this reinforces such a need. Much appreciated.