Would you create a "making of" commentary for your site similar to ones for movies and video games?

[amichail]

Presumably such commentary can give potential users the impression that quite a lot of effort has gone into the design and implementation of the site, thus increasing the chances that users will like the result.

[donna]

This was done in the CD-ROM days, like in Myst. Customer response card claimed they liked it.

[amichail → donna]

What's interesting to me is whether such commentary has a positive impact on the core product by showing people just how much work went into it.

Moreover, I would like to know whether such commentary is feasible for web services. Would people find it compelling?

[ivankirigin → amichail]

It would certainly be easy to make. I would favor better edited content than testimonials in front of a webcam. Those are really boring.

My intuition is that people don't care how much work you've put in.

They care if you care. They like humanized companies. They like to be entertained.

I think it could work, but show it to a few people before showing it off to the world.

[aaroneous]

http://rockstartup.com/