Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com

is that a bookworm holding a cigar?

Clickable: http://www.studylance.com

Are you Felix.f on the site?

This is extremelly useful for math and physics students who generally can't make an income through the web unlike IT students.

I believe it can succeed, one thing to watch: Keep your site SPAM free, Ban the people asking for very hard and long questions and giving few money for it. Also ban users who bid on every question and they are unable to reply.

If your site continue with high-quality, it'll attract a lot of other people, high-quality also (smart)

Good Luck with it!

(Edit: you forgot the about page)

Your "about us" page is full of lorem ipsum. Doesn't inspire much confidence in the company...

Nice site, I will definitely be giving it a try.

My only design complaint so far is the green on blue buttons at the bottom of a question ('Ask Student a Question', etc.).

I think design/usability are acceptable. At least i can understand it after playing with it for less than 1 minute.

The only thing that you need to be careful of is probably a market-risk. This type of site is platform model and usually run into chicken-and-egg problems, therefore, takes longer than you imagined to take-off.

Overall, the idea is great. It certainly has potentials. Keep it going! ;)

i like the logical separation of the page using light colors. I think, although you may be tempted to add more rows to the "top tutors", it looks good as is at the moment - may be couple of rows more. The pound sign beside the top-tutors is very 'diggy'. may be small image size? may be you should think those rows in terms of reddit-like than digg.

..and could you share your web-framework/db/architecture details?

You should probably do it in US dollars rather than British sterling.

Firstly because more people know dollars, but also because it's a higher number, which I'd think would attract more answers; £10 vs $16…only to Britons would they seem the same amount.

Why use this when I can type my question into Google and get ranked answers from answers.com?

But I do like the design and interface, a lot.

Honestly, I think the idea is pretty neat. The website looks pretty good and for general answers I think this model may work. That being said, if a university student posted an assignment question on here and then answered that question exactly as on an assignment, that is tantamount to cheating. I know when I was in university(which wasn't too long ago) my professors were on top of plagiarism and such, and tend to watch for these type of things.

With a site like this, it doesn't stay a students best kept secret for long and once the cat is out of the bag its only going to cause trouble for students using it.

That being said, its a pretty good idea, I'd be interested to see how this pans out.

It doesn't like my password, but I have no idea why. All it will tell me is "Enter correct Password. ". Maybe some hint on why my password doesn't meet your password constraints?

Edit: Apparently I can't have an exclamation point in my password. That's absurd.

Can you name studylance.com competitors?

Your UI focus is wrong. For instance, on the question page the main things are category, post date, number of bids. These elements take up as much height space as the question itself. The question is also in a textbox which I have to scroll to read. The focus should be on the question (which should just be in a div). Right now it looks like an accessory instead of the focus.

BTW, out of curiosity... was this built with asp.net mvc?