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Re:Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think? by pchristensen on Thursday January 24, 2008 @02:30PM (#103682)
In this case, the site is all about doing a better job dealing with people.

In general, putting faces on a website is just a way of taking advantage of the fact that people are drawn to and like faces. It's a more subtle version of using female models to sell cars, or watches, or shoes, etc.

Besides, who wants to be the "faceless" hosting provider?

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Re:Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think? by Hexstream on Saturday January 26, 2008 @07:24PM (#104793)
I think you can infuse a great deal of personality in your site, without necessarily showing faces.

Lots of "faceless" corporations have "faceful" sites, so I don't take the presence of absence of faces on a site as a hint about quality either way.

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Re:Ask YC: Here's our web app - What do you think? by chaostheory on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @04:02AM (#106740)
unfortunately we don't have a ui/designer guru on our team =(

right now given our tight resources, our priority is building more features into muchcloser...

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