PG says to get your site out early and often, so thats what we're trying to do. We're far from finished, but feel its about time to take the ultimate test, and show the news.yc crowd.
Our Site:
http://coordinatr.com is a site designed to give you the necessary tools to quickly and effectively coordinate plans with your friends, without any unnecessary garbage to slow you down. Check out our FAQ for more info: http://coordinatr.com/welcome/faq
Please take a moment if you would to take a look at our site, and let us know what you think. Thanks in advance for your feedback and/or criticism.
Congratulations on all your hard work. It's a nice looking, easy to use site. That said, here are a few issues.
1) It has a very silly name. The whole fad of misspelled words has run is course. I think it automatically associates your site with the whole concept of "yet another web2ish site", which simply won't last forever.
2) There is a serious lack of screenshots on the page. Show me what you do and how you do it, before asking for my email. Also, a screencast wouldn't hurt.
3) The calendar doesn't automatically highlight what today's date is. I think it should.
4) You don't seem to support Unicode. This is a huge mistake, which is quite typical of American startups. I created an event on purpose with the name "Questa è una prova". It got converted in an unhelpful "Questa ? una prova".
5) In the list of invitees, you cut the names down to the first part of the email addresses only. So now all I know is that I invited "info", not info at johnsmith.com.
6) In the profile area you only have settings in place for city/state/zip. Again, very American centric. And it's a bad thing (TM).
7) In the confirmation email, if info@reddit.com invites info@ycombinator.com, you send emails that look like this: Dear info, info has invited you to...
Speaking as a human being rather than a L337 haxxor (or however the kids spell it nowadays), I think a photo of happy friends hanging out on the front page would be preferable to screen shots.
Thanks for the feedback. We understand the name is silly, but we wanted to get a domain that meant something when too many domains are random madeup words. Coordinatr.com is as close as we could come to getting that point across. If you have other recommendations for available domains, let us know!
The display name is generated based on your first, last name, and email address, so as soon as you enter a first and last name, we change what is shown. This way, we don't have to ask a lot of questions up front.
We understand it is very US centric right now. Our goal is to get it out there and get a user base so we can justify spending more time and resources on improving functionality and user experience.
Not supporting Unicode or non-American addresses is not necessarily a mistake. It depends on who your target audience is. I know, it sucks for the rest of the world, but maybe it just encourages international startups.
Our Site: http://coordinatr.com is a site designed to give you the necessary tools to quickly and effectively coordinate plans with your friends, without any unnecessary garbage to slow you down. Check out our FAQ for more info: http://coordinatr.com/welcome/faq
Please take a moment if you would to take a look at our site, and let us know what you think. Thanks in advance for your feedback and/or criticism.