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The service was just launched and is looking for feedback.

Loads very slowly.

Loads quite slow...

What's the opinion of people from Hollywood? http://www.quora.com/Future-of-Entertainment/What-are-all-th...

Inside US or outside?

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If you don't know any English then you don't code. How could you?? Every programmer I know does know some English and can write/speak well enough to be understood.

Change the name! Are we already tired of these kind of names?? (always have to remember how to spell it) Can't we have a intelligible names?

I wrote an article about this: http://www.quora.com/Mircea-Goia/Startup-scene-in-Phoenix-Ar...

:))...I think I know you from somewhere :). So, you did talk to a VC..is he from SV or from Arizona?

At least they have the money...

Good luck and have even more sign ups.

Put the same question on Quora.com. See what you get from there too.

For one flagged answer you quit...that's good...it shows you how big your ego is and how perseverent you are. Good "qualities"... I had answers collapsed there in the beginning...but I persevered and now I am a quite power user. You should try that sometime...

Quora is full of surprises...

Wordpress can be customized a lot and can do a lot with those plugins/themes...not just blogging.

bankruptcyservice.com

bankruptyservice.com Could be a lead generation for people who are looking for this kind of service (more and more people are going bankrupt and need services for this).

I absolutely agree! To write code (an good one) you needs years...if you spend that much time for this then you may very well forget about your startup and become a developer (in the meantime, look at your idea implemented by others).

No wonder nobody noticed you...if your native language is not English, if your name sounds strange and if you are not living in US (read Silicon Valley) then good luck! Because you need a ton to get PR, investors and all that stuff.

Unfortunately, that's how it works and if somebody says it's not true they are not belonging in your category.

"A domain name doesn't win you a market" - he clearly didn't understand the domain name field. That's why he got that crappy Wesabe name. Mint gave hares to the owner of Mint.com so he let Mint use it.

A domain doesn't win you a market but CAN help you quite much! Otherwise, you put more money in the marketing...

The link to Om Malik's post: http://gigaom.com/2010/09/27/aol-close-to-buying-techcrunch/

Summary of Om Malik story from September 27: * AOL is on the verge of acquiring TechCrunch. * The deal is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart yet, but I don’t think so. * Sources familiar with both entities says that the announcement is likely to come onstage at Disrupt, TechCrunch’s flagship conference currently underway in San Francisco. * AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is likely to make an appearance at the conference, and perhaps that’s when the announcement is likely to be made. * AOL in the past had acquired Weblogs Inc., the blogging company behind popular sites such as Engadget. Those blogs have helped AOL compensate for steep loss of traffic. The service has been in the market to buy a technology blog, and is rumored to have been linked with other technology blogs.

Even if all is done right there are slim chances for reporters at well known newspapers/blogs to write about you...unless, you actually know that reporter from real life (conferences, etc)...

If right now I would send a story to the TC reporter (Jason K) which has all the right characteristics (and be interesting) I bet 90% he won't write about my story. And that because not that he doesn't care or something but because he already has tons of good stories to write about AND knows personally a lot of people who wants to tell their stories. Who is getting the first chance? me or those people?

Or maybe just look at deleting names which happens every day and pick one which actually means something... pool.com, namejet.com and snapnames.com.

An idea I had 5 years ago was related to local (social networking, news, events,classifieds) - at that time local wasn’t the hot topic it is today (and Facebook was just for colleges).

How did I came up with that? I had a need - I was a fresh immigrant to US (coming from Eastern Europe) - didn’t know almost anybody - and I though would be nice to have a local site for each neighborhood (based of the zip code level) where people can interact, post local news, local events, local classifieds.

I even start coding and did a prototype in the free time I had, and I almost 1 year (which is still online at http://www.mirceagoia.com/local ) hoping that I may present that to an investor - well, I was too new here and I had to look for a job eventually, to survive. So, i abandoned the idea - but, who knows, that idea could be still viable, especially nowadays.

I find startup ideas by looking at the domain names which are expiring and are in the pendingDelete status. I acquired lots of these and for some I am writing down what can be done for it. When you start a startup it’s good to have a good domain name right away - just ask Mint.com how much they had to give up for that good domain name (gave up some good equity) - or ask Facebook, which paid $200,000 for it after it became successful (money which could be used for the actual business)

By the way, try first to buy that domain you want to buy...before gaining traction. Gaining traction brings traffic to that owner also...thus, the price is raised because of this too.

Facebook.com was bought with $200,000. Isn't that a good price the original owner got?

If the market is huge then you both have enough space. Being no.2 is not that bad as it seems.