Yeah, I actually had to send one of my passwords to one of my friends in SMS (I know, totally insecure etc, but time was more critical at that time than security). I felt a little.... embarrassed afterwards.
I'm far more used to emails cautioning not to reveal my password to anyone since they will never ask for it than to having my password legitimately asked for.
I find that routine helps quite a bit. Also sitting time limits on what you're working on.
I've read a lot of books on productivity, the one that has stuck with me is called "The 4 Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss. If you haven't read it, read it now.
You say, I'm only going to work on this for 3 hours, then I'm done, and you don't allow yourself a second more. If I don't finish, tough luck, try harder next time. It forces you to focus on the essentials.
I let Matt know to be expecting his labels shortly. We're a marketplace for dinner parties. Think the Airbnb model applied to dining instead of lodging.
Very nice, when you can show me a prototype I'll be happy to give you some feedback.
I think AirBnB was spamming craigslist when they first started, and now their customers are doing it for them. Craigslist is free advertising. (Just a thought)
He got the sheets. He liked the personal touch of hand-writing a thank you on the receipt. Nice touch. Things like that mean a lot early on. Keep it up.
I think Airbnb is an idea to which craigslist can easily add value. Basically people were on CL looking for a place to stay or listing their place for rent so it was easy for abnb to step in and show their use case. Unfortunately people aren't typically on CL advertising their dinner party or looking for one to attend. That's not to say that CL can’t be used to our advantage in some way, it just looks a little different.
We’re rapidly developing the product now and will be rolling it out to our signed up chefs first so they can get their accounts created before official launch. We’ll probably make a temporary back-door entrance for a "Show HN" post to get some feedback. If you want, email me and I’ll keep you in the loop as we roll it out.
1. About the reward; the returner does not know what the reward will be, however we do mention that there is a minimum $20 reward.
The business is built around the idea that the general public is good. They generally want to return someone's lost stuff. What we've found so far is that the label just makes the process possible, and painless.
That's why we have the "Good Karma" badge :)
2. Thanks, I have fixed the typo.
3. About the expansion with tamper proof stickers, that's certainly a possibility. We haven't done much corporate business yet, so we're not sure the demand for that sort of thing. Our early customers have mostly been individuals.
On the checkout form, I think that you should have the zip code field prefill the city, state, and country fields. Or explicitly limit to US only. I think that people will wonder why you're not asking for their full address, most people don't know you can get city and state data from their zip.
The enlarged radio buttons don't look good on Firefox 7 Mac. In general radio/list/select fields not not scale well.
The 3% fund from you is a nice touch.
There needs to be a link which you can share with other people to help fund your purchase on the account page. Don't see a link.
Thanks for the feed back.
http://i.crowdfunded.it/apple-ipod-shuffle-2-gb-silver is the page people use to pitch in. you can click the fb like, google +1 or tweet to share with others so that they can pitch in.
Trust is definitely important here. How do you suggest I improve on that?
You need to redirect people to HTTPS, and your credit card form should have a secure lock icon as well as icons for the credit cards you accept. You should have a little promise on your form like "Your credit card information is encrypted for your protection by Industry-Grade 256bit Encryption and will never be shared."
As far as the rest of your website, for me personally, I trust websites that are polished, simple, and have professional copy. I was really impressed with Swipe.com recently and immediately trusted them.
Shouldn't that page say to whom I am giving money?
I think it's a nice concept. People will perhaps be more inclined to give if there was some sort of feedback mechanism. Something that will tell a complete stranger that the guy who was an ipod shuffle for his birthday deserves my $5. Perhaps if I knew that this guy gave $10 to someone else last week for a school textbook? Just thinking out loud.
