We're wrapping up the Philly Startup Weekend project, and I wanted to get feedback on our project. I got inspired by the viral sign-up pages of Foodly and Hipster and decided to build a service for doing just that. Really, I wanted a simple idea to go into the weekend with and see if we could actually sign up a bunch of people before the presentation.
Love your feedback. Would you use this for your own startup?
> Invite at least 3 friends using the link below. The more friends you invite, the sooner you’ll be able to use LaunchRock!
This reminds me of facebook apps that require you to invite your friends in order to get the full functionality. I'm not a big fan of this practice.
- Fred http://feedbackfred.com http://twitter.com/thefeedbackfred
The basic formula is very similar to the Forkly/Hipster strategy, but we've got some more ideas that we're going cooking up as well. We want to create a tool to help people launch, recruit, retain and build relationships with users.
Have shot out the link, looking forward to setting it up in the lead up to our launch.
I'd urge you to reconsider.
I can understand why you'd do that, but honestly I don't think it'll help much. Anyone who wants to "game the system" will probably just use a couple throw-away addresses from a disposable address service or something similar.
Further, blocking the use of that character is an inconvenience to people like myself who use it to track where their mail comes from (i.e. if I get spam to 'mybox+launchrock@example.com', I know exactly who leaked/sold my address.)
I do not have the viral parts, (invite 3 people) because as cabalamat said, it reminds me too much of Facebook Applications. I didn't want people spamming their friends.
Don't get me wrong, I think your service would be beneficial for sure, just make sure to include heaps of features, (i.e. no viralness) :-)
Since right now it's really just a copy of usehipster.com (as you say), it's difficult to 'rate' - what feedback are you hoping for?
had to build my own eventually today.
MailChimp takes forever to redirect after submitting the form. They're API is faster...
