Thank you for your reply! We worked hard on the UI/UX so I am glad that you like it.
To answer your points:
1. Yes - you are right that we need to make it clearer how integration works. We are working on a page right now which explains everything in detail. Hopefully it should go up within a few hours.
2. We are .NET developers so targeting ASP.NET seemed natural but we definitely have plans to target ruby, python, node, php, java, etc.... We are going to open source the integration module and allow others to build new ones in different languages. It would be amazing if we got some help from the community with this.
If you read the last paragraph in our T&C you will see that we do not assert any ownership over your content (story). It still belongs to you and you can do with it whatever you like.
What we want, however, is to be able to use user-submitted content for any possible advertising or promotion purposes. This is kind of what facebook does except not as evil. We reckon that the user will benefit from this too (as it will show off his story to more people if we link to it in an ad).
We will make all of that clearer in our T&C. Thank you!
I did read that last paragraph where you say that I still have ownership over my content. However, I am still granting you a license to do whatever you want with the story. Meaning you can go and sell the top stories to publishers legally. I don't like this. I would make it so that you can only use it for promotions with prior written consent from the author and the only license I grant you is to display it on your site.
You are right. Writing is a lengthy and demanding process.
We do need to market this properly and find people who are interested in writing stories.
Going by the amount of blogs/literary sites and forums that are out there - we reckon that these people do exist in certain numbers. We just have to find find and convince them that our platform is right for them.
140 characters is probably approaching some lower bound of what is required for an interesting story. 140 characters, while conforming to the length of a text SMS, would probably be too brief...
My friend and I have been developing a brand spanking new site for avid readers and writers. It is called Slap a Story and as of today can be accessed at slapastory.com.
In short you can post short stories and make them popular by voting them up, you can also discuss stories written by other people.
Please rate/review our site. Your feedback is much appreciated.
To answer your points:
1. Yes - you are right that we need to make it clearer how integration works. We are working on a page right now which explains everything in detail. Hopefully it should go up within a few hours.
2. We are .NET developers so targeting ASP.NET seemed natural but we definitely have plans to target ruby, python, node, php, java, etc.... We are going to open source the integration module and allow others to build new ones in different languages. It would be amazing if we got some help from the community with this.
Thanks again!