Show HN: The way I'll beat Facebook?
Hi! 3 months ago, while I was exploring my Facebook newsfeed, was the first time I really got bored of Facebook. I started to wonder why, and to be honest - I haven't figured it out yet. But I did start to think of the gaps Facebook doesn't cover. Maybe I'm wrong, but one of the things that came up to me is the subject of interests and users will to use social networks in order to get to know new friends (real ones), in an efficient-good way. I thought combining those two gaps is a really good idea. So I started to develop that big idea (double meaning) - interests based social network. The site is in a quite advanced stage but some key features are still missing. Even though, I released an early sign-up landing page (www.itimdi.com), in order to see the amount of demand on this one. I'd like to get your feedback on that project, please. Thanks in advanced!
The text on the left hand side is nice and readable. Big, set out nicely on a grey background with a bit of dropshadow to help keep it readable against the background.
The text on the right hand side is a bit small for me. The background image and the small size make that text hard to read for me.
There are a few typos and errors in the text; eg "How do we different from other social networks?".
The idea is probably good. But I'm unsure of a few things. I connect to other people interested in things I'm interested. If one of those people is sharing images and video will I see all of those images, or just the ones relevant to my interest?
Imagine I'm interested in netball, canoeing, and real ale. I connect to Bob because he's interested in Real Ale and Dog Showing. Bob posts a lot of images of his Dalmatian at various shows. Do I see all those dog show photos?
EDIT: When I'm using Pinterest I get a lot of stuff that I'm not really interested in. And I know that I'm missing a lot of stuff that I would be interested in.
I pin stuff to a board called "Humanitarian", for example. I'd really like to have other similar pins shown to me. So if I could have a list presented of "here's some other tags / boards / users you may be interested in [developing world] [africa] [unicef] [unhcr]" that'd be great. I don't know if that's an idea you can use.
It's a nice idea. I'm not sure how it'll work to compete against facebook, because FB allows people to set up little groups.
I would be careful saying that you'll beat Facebook, because then people expect this to really rival Facebook when it can't at this stage. PG recommends this when going after a problem, don't tell investors that you're tackling email because then they will expect to see massive results and constantly compare, on the flip side, take one part of it and get that down and go from there.
Look at it this way- if nobody ever tries to beat Facebook, it'd pretty sad. Anything is better than nothing.
First things first, name needs to change. It's not catchy and I can't see half the country saying "I'll add you on itimdi". That's very important. Otherwise, I can't say much because I haven't seen the site yet.
The most important thing Facebook has right now is a critical mass of users. You can't really set out to beat that, you have to sneak up on them with a really good product. How about something that unifies all the Bio monitoring devices, or cloud services, or even social networks?
Facebooks problem as I see it, ergo my problem with Facebook is the daily or hourly updates of family and friends is overboard. If I check Facebook 2x / month, I would like to see a summary of BIG events and skip all the minor posts, shares, and comments.
Hi, I'd like to ask you to read, please, the "more info" section and tell me what do you think about the basic idea? Do you have any improvement suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Is this your landing page ? I am asking since you contact email is : contact@gmail.com ? - Times Sq. Background is too flashy. I suggest change it - Due to the background, the page fonts are hard to read. For example, the error message is in red which does not mingle well with the times sq. background. - "meet and interact with new friends, easily and efficiently". How easily ? How efficiently ? Just saying "easily and efficiently" does not really mean much. Either remove those words or add more specifics.