Ask HN: Review my startup Iddhis.com (yc winter 2011 denied)
20 December 2010, 11 pm IST,
Iddhis.com is a social service to connect two people who know each other very well and want to keep each other updated about everything they do. Iddhis.com is an Ideal tool for one to connect to a friend or spouse or mom or dad, one at a time. As we believe that real conversation happens between only two, It's like a phone call or a letter, that ideally means between two people.
Iddhis.com is build around keeping user's privacy at top priority. Iddhis.com is a kind of reverse social network, while on social network everything is by default public, on Iddhis.com , everything is private. With an Iddhis.com account one can connect with exactly one person. Social networks are not the ideal way to communicate with someone who is very important to you. That's where Iddhis comes in. Iddhis wants to improve the way conversation happens over internet.
With an Iddhis account you connect with one person and start sharing updates, photos, videos, day's summary and much more. Updating on Iddhis can be done by web or by sending email to [email protected].
Iddhis can be actually very useful for people who stay away from each other for very large time of year, like people in military, people in long distance relationship, students who stay away from their home town and couples who work in different cities.
If this looks exciting to you go to Iddhis.com create an Iddhis account with someone very close to you and start sharing in a new way.
Our blog is here, http://blog.iddhis.com
Update - We had 500 signups in the first week and some thousand hits, though we are yet to do any marketing or publicity. Landing page needs lots of work, indeed.
Landing page: no idea what it is. I disagree that conversations only happen between two people, makes me doubt you know how to build a social product.
".....Rest is all noise.Why not cut the noise?" too many dots, isn't clear english, no space between period and W.
"Complete privacy" of what?
"No stalkers" is stalking a concern? what is this?
"No Groups" erm, okay. aren't they useful?
To reiterate: No idea what this is after reading every word on your landing page.
Register Now button too small, fades into background.
Click register
You want my email ... and my friends - what? why?
I go to about page
"Iddhis is a web service, dedicated to connect you with people who you care most. It is a unique service for just two people. No friends, no communities, no groups. Iddhis born because of our own itch. We know how important it is to have dedicated space for special people in life, specially when we are so much used to online conversation that we accidentally update too personal things on social networking sites."
... like email? why is there no screenshots. no benefits listed for me.
Why is one of your founding team a photographer?
The CSS3 is overdone on the footer links, looks weird on mouse over in chrome, the live help link seems weird for a B2C social product.
i like the logo.
I think you've got a much better value proposition pitching it specifically to couples as a way to track and strengthen their relationship than as a generic "social network for 2 people". The first has clear value (allows for sharing of personal photos, thoughts, emotions) why the later doesn't.
While I appreciate you might want to expand beyond the relationship market, I still think it's better to start from there where you have a clear value proposition and then extend out to other areas over time.
As other people have mentioned "no stalkers" and "no groups" aren't benefits. "Strengthen your relationship" is a benefit.
As far as the product goes, I agree with the sentiment in the other comments - I don't see how this is any different to email? Perhaps you could have a feature matrix on your landing page comparing facebook, iddhis and email to show the similarities and differences
Landing page: Put all of the features that are scrolling on the page so I can scan through them instead of waiting for them to scroll.
Use the normal logo that you have without any of the drop shadows and glows, it's just making it look messy.
Logo: What does the pie chart icon mean? For the letters, I don't mind the stylized font but I would put them together so it's one continuous word.
Name: Iddhis - Does this name come from a root from another word or from a foreign word? If not, I just don't click with this name, it makes me say "hiss" at the end or "dhis" like "diss".