Comments on: Y Combinator Feedback: it hurts so good

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:35:51 +0000

I came trough YC News, and it was nice to hear these experience from your startup. I want to suggest to try ClickTale, it’s a great usability tool, because it records videos from your visits.
Good luck

By: TS

TS — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:55:35 +0000

thanks coward and Brad:

I hear what you are saying, and that is why we put ourselves up for the scrutiny. But I think that it might be the opposite when you ask for comments and critique on YC News.

General users are more concerned with what can this site can do for me ? instead of, this site is not ready for the public, you have a typo or I don’t like the colors. Don’t get me wrong, we took all comments seriously, but like a musician listening to a guitarist, the average person hears the song while the musician is wondering if that is drop D tuning.

But we got what we asked for, and now we are making good use of the feedback to improve and iterate.

thanks for the input. ts

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:42:10 +0000

Hi, I just came from new.yc. Your point about being disappointed by the fact that no one looked past the design to see the features and business model is a key one and shows the importance of putting a good coat of paint on a site.

If a group of hackers can’t look past the design to check out the application, do you really think the general population will?

By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:48:51 +0000

A tips for improving the images.

The images looks “unfocused”. Try to save them as PNG instead of JPEG.

As a rule:

JPEG for photos
PNG for graphs/drawings