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Rate my startup: StyleJam
StyleJam is a portfolio hosting solution targeted to web designers. It's some kind of CSSZenGarden meets Linkedin meets Sortfolio.
What I wanted to have is a platform that generates some nicely written HTML out of the data the designer inserts (like bio, his works, location) and lets him customize the design through CSS and imagery.
The result is a static website hosted on S3 that contains what you would expect a portfolio website to contain: some infos about the designer, his location, a contact form, some samples. There is also an option to let designers specify if they are "startup friendly" i.e. if they take into consideration being partially or totally compensated with stock options, stocks or similar benefits.
Designers can comment and vote the portfolios.
I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on how to get traction and comments on the app itself.
Thanks a lot.
http://stylej.am
- stylejam 15y agoClickable: http://stylej.am http://stylej.am
- medinism 15y agoIs there a way to sign in with you Dribble credentials. It seems to me that Dribble is the most active community of designers and you would want to tap into that.
- stylejam 15y agoThere is no way, and I don't think Dribbble is an OAuth source. Thanks for the suggestion though, I will look into that and maybe ping Dan C. to see if it's possible.
- doubaokun 15y agoI think it is too expensive, since the designers can buy a VPS at that price.
- pazimzadeh 15y agoNice site. Two comments: it took me a minute to realize that the dark box in the center was an input form. Try to make it look more engraved by giving the box some dark inner shadow at the top and some lighter color drop shadow at the bottom, like this http://cl.ly/AoMF http://cl.ly/AoMF. The transitions between the slides of the carousel take way too long, try making them take up five times less time.
- stylejam 15y agoThanks for the tip. You like the idea or only the design? :)
- pazimzadeh 15y agoI like the idea too! You should add some awesome portfolios though. By the way, the arrows on the carousel are hard to click - either superimpose them onto the edge of the slides or don't hide them when the mouse is not hovering over.
- pazimzadeh 15y agoI got this text when I signed up for an account using Twitter: http://cl.ly/AodK http://cl.ly/AodK. By the way, why make the forms on the sign up page so long? One third the size with almost double the height may look better.
- stylejam 15y agoOh my, silly me. Should be fixed now, and thanks a lot for the catch.
- hodbby 15y agoGo to karmurl.com and submit your request there.
- Uldis 15y agoThere's way too much elements on front page. Idea is good, yet not unique, I'd suggest focusing on design, first by removing 90% of content that doesn't essentially matter.
- Uldis 15y agoFB authorization fails.