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My experience with Hacker News Reviews

We've been working on FromABirdie.com for quite a while, and several friends have already used it for their own albums of letters and provided great feedback (and encouragement). Yesterday I felt that the time had finally come for a more public release, and decided to submit it to Hacker News and ask for reviews.  I want to share here a few observations about the experience, hoping to encourage others to take advantage of the great opportunity to get traffic, test whether the site can take the load, and get very thoughtful reviews. First of all, I want to say that all the reviewers were very friendly. I was expecting harsher comments from a community of hackers, but every single negative review I got was also accompanied with encouragement, and basically saying that they had liked the idea very much and that

• Very friendly reviews
• Very useful reviews
• Interesting traffic

Things that were useful for my site:

• Nothing broke, which was good
• Improve performace
• Improve graphic design
• Business idea
• Things that didn't happen: few clicks to tour. Very few albums created. Few people understood the idea well.