Ask HN: Do you put a smiley photo of yourself on your app's About page? I'm wondering what to put on the About page of my app. I'm debating whether to put up a friendly looking smiling photo of myself. As much as I'm a private person, I feel that my app requires that I indentify myself personally with it. Any tips for how to do this? |
\/\/\/\/
/ \
/ \
/ \
/\_/ 0 0 \_/\
| |
\/ \ |_| / \/
\ /
\ \-----/ /
\ /
\_______/
| |When I launched a site in February with a friend, we got a lot of email feedback complimenting us directly for our About page, which had snippets like "Rory is pretty much certainly a douche" strewn about it. We also asked for feedback haiku, and received so much we couldn't post all of it online. All that without a single personal tidbit about either of us.
If you do this, please make sure to put a good pic up -- no self-taken camera phone bluriness, please. Remember, you want to personalize the experience but still seem professional.
Your homepage mentions SMS, your features page doesn't.
I'm thinking it's something along the lines of a map based system where locations for future shoots are tagged, probably with some sample images as reminders + details of the conditions I'm looking for. Then there must be a calendar view showing any likely conditions matches and giving me a list of possible shoots? Plenty there for some more visuals. You've avoided overuse of text but the imagery (whilst lush) doesn't aid my understanding of your offering and isn't helping to lead me to sign up. Is it free?
Oh, apologies I tried "sign up" - you should label the website as a preview or state "sign up by email" if that's what you want folk to do. A great start, best.
no charge.
If you're multiple people, plenty of startups (Kayak and Meebo come to mind) put pictures up.
