Please review my app, Card Karma (cardkarma.com)
Card Karma lets you create your own free ecards using Flickr photos, Youtube videos, or any image you want via Facebook upload, bookmarklet, or URL.
You can share your cards via Twitter with a short URL (kr.ma), post them to a Facebook wall, or simply email the link. It's all free and ad-free and you don't need an account to try it.
Happy Holidays!
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Happy Holidays!
ie this card http://kr.ma/h2
has an image that uses this license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en_CA
I had a fun little exchange with a Flickr admin, so I'm even being more conservative than I need to be considering the site is non-commercial at the moment.
I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff...but, that's most of it.
I think you did an EXCELLENT job walking the user through the tasks. Instead of going about it from the engineering stand point, and creating a dashboard to manage your cards (ha) you lead me through real use cases and I was able to create a card with little effort. I'm a firm believer when a user goes online they become dumber and just start clicking buttons. Again, I was lead through the app with big fun icons and steps that had bright "Next" buttons. A 5 year old could have created and shared a card, that's awesome.
I also liked how you explained the privacy setting on step 3(?). I was thinking it, and right next to the 'Next' button was my answer.
With that said, I thought there were a few pages that felt cluttered. The share page, for example. This is your viral channel and maybe the most important step (depending on your goals) so I would make this the only thing on the page (or bigger). Removing some of the content on the right and definitely at the bottom might prevent people from not doing that final, important, step.
Also, on the share page, have you thought about an email form with a pre-filled message and the link inside? We have found (slightly different use case) that most people don't even care about changing the message and having this form just reduces user friction. However, I can see the advantage of letting the user use their own email client to..
Yes, the share page is tough. My instinct is more in line with yours, but I kept getting feedback that after you shared your card there needed to be more stuff to pull you back in ("now what?!"). But, I agree, it needs more work there.
The only emails sent from the site are welcome and password reset messages and that sort. I want to really guard the brand against becoming spammy, so I've delayed sending cards via email from the site until I can get it right. In the meantime, I've been happily surprised that most people don't mind the options that are there!
Keep the ideas coming. I really appreciate your feedback.
A possible problem is you may be violating the license to some of these images. The first few I checked out where all creative commons, but this one does not allow derivative works, but it shows up in the results: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24879866@N05/3488893875/
(I may be misinterpreting the license)
One minor thing, where it displays the images from flickr, I would make the "use" button more apparent, it doesn't look like a button so it is not clear that you can click on it.
Otherwise its a very nice site, how long did it take you to build? Technical details?
Re: the Flickr images, all the images pulled in via the API are not edited, copied, or saved in any way on Card Karma. They are actually loading right from Flickr's CDNs. I've tried to get feedback from a number of Flickr photographers and a Flickr admin to make sure I'm inline with their terms, and so far it's not been a problem.
It took me forever! I went to school for Jazz Performance on the banjo, so I had to learn Django, working with AWS products, etc, as I built the app. See my comment below for more tech details.
I'll leave the Lady Gaga Youtube video there since every teen in the US has probably seen it already.