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New web startup -- need advice/feedback


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Hi all,

I've been working hard on a new web startup for the past few months... and it's finally hit it's first beta. I've been a bit too close to the project so I'd love to get your feedback on the site ... specifically concept, design... and what should I do next.

Before you go to it, let me just give you the exec summary. Miimr is place where users can post/talk about anything and tag their posts with the main topic points (ie Microsoft, Windows, Win7 etc..). When you post it, it will show your post as well as the brief description of what you've tagged (to help other users understand what you're trying to say w/o having to google/bing it). The database has about 11 million records, so users can pretty much tag their posts with most things in the world.

You can also follow things that interest you. In doing so, you get all the status updates from the posts people have tagged with that thing. So, if you follow Microsoft, everytime someone tags their post with Microsoft, you will see it in your feed.

That's pretty much the site in a nutshell. I'd love to hear your thoughts as I try to prioritize what to do next.

Check out http://miimr.com

Thanks in advance!

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Wow. The site looks amazing. It's so cool that you made that! I don't see a favicon though. When I make a new post it doesn't automatically appear. I would try to change that. but very cool site!

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FireFox 4.0b1

I have a question. I created a profile(?) for the show Archer on FX. I uploaded a picture. But now it has a completely different one. It still relates to Archer and works fine. Do new profiles automatically get images for them?

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Very strange! I hate to ask this, but do you think you can clear your cache and try again? No worries if you can't. (I'm using FF4.0b1 as well.. and can't seem to replicate that behavior)

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Not a problem will do

Love, the design. Change the 'No Image' picture to something more fitting, and it's perfect :)

Goodluck with the website itself :) Sounds good, and already looks good.

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:( are you running any extensions or anything? noscript perhaps?

I have quite a few, but nothing that should be stopping it from appearing. hmm

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Looks like there's some performance tuning needed to be done. To be honest, that hasn't happened much because there aren't that many users. Hopefully with more users, we'll have reasons to do it ;) Thanks for your help!!

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One thing I noticed - when you click in a post box, it expands, but does not select (in my experience, anyway). So I click, then type something, and my browser does weird things rather than type. :)

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One thing I noticed - when you click in a post box, it expands, but does not select (in my experience, anyway). So I click, then type something, and my browser does weird things rather than type. :)

What browser are you using if you don't mind me asking

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on Chrome (stable version) it shows no favicon... tried refreshing, and nothing still... but overall, very cool and good looking site. Will be joining.

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on Chrome (stable version) it shows no favicon... tried refreshing, and nothing still... but overall, very cool and good looking site. Will be joining.

I should create one eh? Thanks for the feedback. Will implement soon!

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So does miimr get its database from Freebase?

Yup.. the base database is from freebase, but users can create new items (if they don't exist) or edit the things in the database if they are inaccurate or out of date.

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Looks very good and it's a great concept, bit like twitter but with more depth. I will definitely join and watch it expand :) Keep it up!

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Thanks for the feedback everyone -- really fulfilling to see people's response to the site. I'll be deploying some fixes (including the favicon) this afternoon. Anyone have any idea/tips on how I should promote this?

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Thanks for the feedback everyone -- really fulfilling to see people's response to the site. I'll be deploying some fixes (including the favicon) this afternoon. Anyone have any idea/tips on how I should promote this?

I would start with something small like a banner in your sig or something like that

Oh and when I went to bing and searched miimr. Your link came up but this was the description "Adrian Chang Wow crazy quarter for Microsoft. $16.04B revenue / $4.5B profit. Still ahead of Apple, but the margin is getting smaller. http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/22/mi..."

I'd get that changed

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