Rate my startup: StyleJam

16 points by stylejam 14 years ago | 11 comments

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

pazimzadeh 14 years ago |

Nice 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. The transitions between the slides of the carousel take way too long, try making them take up five times less time.

stylejam 14 years ago | |

Thanks for the tip. You like the idea or only the design? :)

pazimzadeh 14 years ago | | |

I 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 14 years ago |

I got this text when I signed up for an account using Twitter: 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 14 years ago | |

Oh my, silly me. Should be fixed now, and thanks a lot for the catch.

Uldis 14 years ago |

There'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 14 years ago | |

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medinism 14 years ago |

Is 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 14 years ago | |

There 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.

stylejam 14 years ago |

Clickable: http://stylej.am

hodbby 14 years ago |

Go to karmurl.com and submit your request there.