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Comment by aaronbrethorst | Hacker News Reader

The language on the home page around 'too good to be true' made me pause before signing up. It almost sounds like you're saying 'there's a catch!'

I think being a little more clear about your business model will go a long way to allaying concerns among users signing up for RewardLevel.

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Aaron.

Awesome feedback. Should we include how we make money in that paragraph?

Ideally, yes. Maybe you could say something like "Sound too good to be true? It isn't: Reward Level is completely free for you and your users. We make money through our partner referrals."

Except that what I wrote is terrible, but hopefully you get the idea :)

Edit: and please put this above the fold.

Yea, pretty terrible :P

Let me think of something. Don't really want to push changes live but tonight or early tomorrow.

Please keep the feedback coming!

Sounds good, I look forward to seeing it! Plus, I did sign up, and I'll let you know offline if I have any more feedback.

This product looks awesome, btw!

And, speaking of "too good to be true", the sudden availability of the "rewardlevel.com" domain name a month ago was definitely too good to be true. It only became available for you to purchase because spammers got tired of spamming people with it. It's always a crying shame to see someone create a cool new web site on a blacklisted domain name.

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/rewardlevel.com http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/rewardlevel.com/msgpage

It pays to check SiteAdvisor and MyWOT before you purchase a domain name. Better safe than sorry.

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