Good morning, HN. We've been slaving for months and we're finally launch-ready.
This community was so amazing last time we launched a web site, that we're taking our own advice (http://blog.200nipples.com/2008/07/launch-the-first-24-hours...) and doing a Hacker News launch. We're basically in Alpha right now, we'll be in Beta next week with all initial features online by 4th quarter 2009.
Anyway, this site was built with guys like you in mind, so let us know what you think.
My thoughts:
1. Like most people here I didn't really like to have to login to see anything, especially with the bait-and-switch approach. I think you either need to show a random result for people to see, or let them do a single search and log an IP address to something (difficult as I guess multiple people from one company can have same IP). Another option would be to show a reduced set of information maybe show 1 or 2 of the test results in full and all the rest just have the % without clarifying what is good and bad?
2. Site looks really nice. I like the blurb and the site makes me want to put a URL in and find out more
3. Personally I think it is pricey. I would have thought perhaps a per domain model or the like might work better - $10 to track a domain for a year - with alerts when it goes down or up in score etc? $20 a month might work for some design/development agencies because they can test loads of sites, but I think you are limiting to your target market majorly if you do that.
I've never heard of Amazon payments before so I'm pleased I took a look at your site - I learnt something! I think a lot of business people will prefer that over google and paypal etc.
This community was so amazing last time we launched a web site, that we're taking our own advice (http://blog.200nipples.com/2008/07/launch-the-first-24-hours...) and doing a Hacker News launch. We're basically in Alpha right now, we'll be in Beta next week with all initial features online by 4th quarter 2009.
Anyway, this site was built with guys like you in mind, so let us know what you think.