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Comment by pedalpete | Hacker News Reader

First off, why even have a separate sign-up page? You aren't getting any details there really.

It completely looks like spam. How are you going to know what my app is? You don't ask for my app, you only ask for my e-mail.

You could make this much simpler.

1) (as others have mentioned) state on your homepage what you do.

2) include a space for me to put my e-mail address, don't take me to another page

3) don't ask to spam me with your "We make some really cool things. Check this box if you would like the occasional email about our other products. Don't worry, we dont like spam either!" That just looks really bad.

Basically make it all a simple as possible.

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I though I would answer your 1,2,3 points as it might generate some more ideas about how to go about achieving conversions.

1) I thought it was simple (but I may be too close to the project). We scrape the apple website in all countries for reviews to apps that you have entered in the site(they don't have to be your own). Then we translate the non english ones and email them to you if you have any new ones that day. It's really great to help you track what your users are saying about your app. Or what users are saying about your competitions apps.

2) This is good advice and easily fixed. Thanks!

3) Noted. I will remove it!

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Ok, let's look at #1. That is the product you are selling, not just my reviews, but the reviews of competing apps or other apps in the space.

Which leaves me with two more questions. 1) where is the text field where I enter in the apps that I want to recieve reviews about

2) why don't you turn this into an app? Why is it a web/e-mail solution?

We all have so much e-mail already, you could simply create an app, the app user gets a unique ID, you go scraping and when you find new reviews, you send a notification and the person can then see them.

Furthermore, you should be able to do some metrics on "people who are getting reviews on x app are also getting reviews on y app, which may help companies stay up on new competitors.

1) You need to sign up before you can add the apps that you are interested in tracking

2) We are considering an mobile app version of the the product. We wanted to gauge user interest before expanding even further

I like the last suggestion. We are looking to add extra features in the future but we are concentrating on getting the MPV off the ground first

Ok great thanks. This is all gold!

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