Ask HN: Need advice on my website.

2 points by xackpot 14y ago ↗ HN

I have been working on my website for quite some time and I designed/redesigned it multiple times to get the users to interact with it. At the current state it has a lot of call to action buttons and I have tried to engage users over the page, but I still don't see a lot of conversions as I would want.

Any help/suggestions/ideas would be welcome and appreciated. Here is the link to the website:

http://www.findero.us

About finderous: It is a simple location based question and answer site, where users can chose a location and post their questions to get answers from followers/users of that place.

Thanks

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oinksoft 14y ago ↗

As a starting point, your logo is confusing ... I thought you had used some fancy unicode "F"-like character ... but you are substituting a ? with a "-" for "F"? Seems off.

xackpot 14y ago ↗

Thank you. I think I will have to hire a designer to do a logo for me.

byjess 14y ago ↗

I could do a design audit. I do them for other startups, no charge.

http://byjess.net/posts/design/audit/

xackpot 14y ago ↗

That is great. How do I submit my site for a design audit?

Thanks

daveid 14y ago ↗

I think the idea is not bad, but there are a few off-putting things.

First, it asks me for my location before I know what it's about at all. Maybe delay the geolocation request until after I click something?

The description of what the site does should really be up there under the logo and not in between content elements, it's slightly confusing.

Random question / change location buttons should get some more attention. Especially random question.

Alignment/padding inconsistencies make the site look cluttered or messy. Border colors do not work well with the background green.

And as mentioned by oinksoft, the logo is confusing.

Otherwise good idea.

xackpot 14y ago ↗

Thank you for your suggestions, daveid. I think you are right in postponing the get location button until the users start interacting with the site. I will put on the change location and random question button more prominently.