Ask HN: Please (re)review my startup - CrowdMind.com
Hey Guys,
A few weeks ago I posted for a review of my startup, and got some really good feedback. We went back and re-designed the site to be more intuitive and easy to use. Please take a look and provide some feedback.
Things I am interested in:
1. Would you use this service?
2. Are you a contributor or a reader?
3. What is the best way to grow and maintain a community?
4. Should we focus on a particular domain (Technology, Travel, etc.)?
Example Decisions to take a look at:
http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/55_What_Is_The_Best_Fitness_Website_To_Track_Progress
http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/65_What_Is_The_Best_Iphone_App_For_Twitter
http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/70_When_Should_You_Seek_Funding_For_Your_Web_Startup
http://alpha.crowdmind.com/decision/69_What_Is_The_Best_Website_For_Plane_Tickets
About CrowdMind:
CrowdMind is a collaborative decision making tool. We imagine a better way to make decisions, one where you can start by finding similar decisions that you can reuse as a template. Where you can pull in all the things the people before you learned about the options you are considering and what matters to you. Where you can reach out to your friends and to the crowd, find out what they think. Where everyone who is part of that decision can rate what's important to them and you can see what your overall collective best option is. Mousing off the "rate" buttons in the good bad columns doesnt hide the options again. No biggie - it just looks a bit odd when moving the mouse around. (I wouldnt use the site, not my thing, so usability comments are all I can contribute :)) Totally love the fact that, you have enabled login with yahoo/google/facebook/openID - that pretty much covers 99% of the people!
Overall great site... though somewhat Hunch'ish! Moreover I like the name 'crowdmind' too - good for branding! Its not direct, rather evocative, still kinda gives you an idea about the service! You should prolly update your copyright... Thanks! will do. remind me of http://www.hunch.com/ We are different from hunch because we are more of a perspective gathering tool, rather than giving you an answer at the end. This system is meant to help with gathering advice and wisdom from your network and the crowd. It then lets you rate how important those things are to you so that you can make a decision.