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mikejarema
OP here - I know requiring a Facebook login is generally frowned upon in the HN community, but I would appreciate feedback on the app in general.

If FB authentication is asking too much of you, please take a quick peek at the intro video to see what's inside.

http://youtu.be/ycTIFVtF3zY

Killswitch
> ... or do you want to see a preview of Domains for Friends before logging in?

Remove that.. All it does is require you to login anyway. Redundant. Other than that, I can't really test it much as Facebook is blocked at my work, but I do like the idea behind it.

mikejarema
Thanks for the feedback, the "preview" in this case is the Youtube video in the resulting popup. Which may be blocked at your work as well :(

I'll work on the language of that link a little to be clearer.

Killswitch
Ah, I see, yeah Youtube is blocked also so all I seen was the "sign into facebook to get started"

Hopefully when I get home after work I can better test it.

mikejarema
Please do! I'm getting ready to make a stronger marketing push and would dramatically appreciate feedback at this stage in the game.
Killswitch
So I got a chance to play with it... My only gripe is GoDaddy... GoDaddy is bad. Very bad.
mikejarema
Yeah, I was anticipating this feedback, the fact of the matter is that GoDaddy has brand awareness (read: increased conversions) and higher payouts (due to heavy upselling).

I'm looking to make a little money from this site and the factors above, for better or worse, really make the decision in terms of where I refer traffic.

I am considering building on OpenSRS for a fully whitelabelled reg. process. Unfortunately that is a big undertaking, and I'm testing the site before committing the effort to white label integration.

Thanks again.

Killswitch
That's unfortunate that money is the reason you're using a service that wanted to kill your business.