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Yesterday after fighting fires for hours and number of coffee cups, we finally launched (http://jackpotbuddy.com). Please review the site and provide your feedback. I'm looking for:

1. What you think of the idea 2. Does the information on landing page describes the idea 3. What do you think of the UX (you'll need to signup :)) 4. What do you think of the design 5. Anything else we could improve on.

Thanks a lot in advance.

11 comments

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yashchandra
what is your business model? the landing page seems fine but are you saying that we sign up for FREE and can win a lottery pool ?
youngdev
Thanks for the feedback. Each week we will buy lottery tickets and start a lottery pool for everyone to join. If our lottery ticket is a winner, then any price we get will be equally divided between the members who have joined the group.
reiz
UI looks OK. I like the idea. But if everybody is playing for free, who is paying the lottery? How is the business model?

The Forum and the Blog looks ugly. Don't take it personal. That's just my opinion. I would customize that, so that it looks more like the rest of the page.

reiz
I just realized that the "Community" and "Blog" link in the main navigation are both linked to the "Forum". Is that by purpose? Or a bug?
youngdev
It is a bug and we are working on it. Community will be forums and blog will be wordpress blog. We
youngdev
Reiz, Thanks for the feedback. Initially we are paying for the lottery tickets. We play lottery often for fun, so we thought why not share it with everyone else.

In phase two we are introducing more premium features where users can create their own private groups and track the ticket/winning etc. Hoping that will help drive the revenue.

eranation
It would help me to sign up and join if I would have seen an explanation of how it works and why it's free, I'm a sceptic, besides that one thing bothered me, the bold text ("Jackpot Buddy is a ...") is too long for a title, I would play with different font sizes and build a title + subtitle (e.g. first paragraph as is, and second, starting with "Join thousands" as not bold + italics + smaller font)

Interesting idea, I will follow

youngdev
Eranation, Thanks a lot for your feedback. We are working on creating a video on how to play and talk about the idea. I will also fix the text and do A/B with different headline. Stay tuned for a video coming soon on home page.
VuongN
Congratulations on launching. The UI looks good, but I do have some comments:

1) The time counter, it flashes. Very distracting. I see you're using a plugin for it. Just have the background stays the same and change opacity of the text instead.

2) Facebook and Twitter links next to the signup/signin button can be confusing as social authentication. Perhaps you could move it down to the footer or above the Facebook friends/like box.

Congrats again and good luck.

youngdev
VuongN, Thanks for taking the time to provide great feedback. We'll fix it tonight.