I built this in about three days using the laconica microblogging platform.
Basic idea is that you grab the bookmarklet (in the "post" section) and then can add images to your account in two clicks from whatever website your on.
I'd been looking for a good image bookmarking site to use but they are either invite only (ffffound.com) or too cluttered / too many features (weheartit.com, vi.sualize.us).. so I thought I'd make one myself. Feature wise, the only thing new to image bookmarking this brings is the friend following feature.. but I'm hoping imgfave can succeed by staying really simple/easy to use and fast.
If the bookmarklet is the heart of getting images bookmarked, it shouldn't be in the "Post" section. It should promoted on every page, especially the home page where it should be accompanied with some instructions.
I agree, I will be adding a box on the homepage that gives new users an idea of what the site is all about and displays the bookmarklet. Thanks for the feedback!
Basic idea is that you grab the bookmarklet (in the "post" section) and then can add images to your account in two clicks from whatever website your on.
This sentence should be someplace visible on the home page.
I like the way you click on the bookmarklet, then click on the image.
Would be nice to have some sort of indicator after clicking the bookmarklet so the user knows that the images have become hot. Just a discrete little flash message, something like "Okay! Now select your image."
I would like it to be a bit more welcoming. Just a little snippet of friendly little intro text like "Welcome dude! Here's what we do, here's where to start!"
A way to cancel adding an image would be nice. Incase you change your mind or something. Maybe click the bookmarklet again or a timeout if you don't select an image after 15-30 seconds, it goes away.
Other then that, I like the design (and after reading the comments here, I could figure out what it did).
Thanks for the feedback. I may allow users to edit titles once I figure out the best interaction flow for that. As far as filtering goes, right now I probably won't do much, but I may eventually break the home page up into "recently popular" and "new" sections.
the best thing you can do is get provocative pictures and have them appear on sites like reddit to boost traffic.
www.pixdaus.com was on the front page of many digg/reddit sites, and it seems to be doing pretty well, traffic-wise. It's also a very impressive site to visit, becuase some of the pictures are amazing. They have a reddit-style voting system. You might be able to pull images from that site?
I think the term 'fave' is kind of cliche, it doesn't seem to be working for faves.com, but that's probably hard to change at this point.
Comments would be cool, not sure how hard it would be to integrate it with laconi.ca.
Another feature would be to do slideshows of images, or be able to set it as your wallpaper. Or send an e-mail to people with a link to the image. Maybe even make a vista side-bar gadget that pulls images.
Is it free? If it is, you should explain that as part of your marketing somewhere, at least on the register page. I can see myself wanting to write notes when I bookmark an image, but that might go against your plan, since you think your competitors have too many features.
I like the minimalist look. However, the bookmarklet shouldn't be confined to the "Post" section. Make it clear that to post images, one needs to use the bookmarklet.
It would be nice if the images either had no title at all, or the user that posted the picture could change the title.
I think you have a solid idea, but your implementation is wack. If you can code, why would you use some platform that has absolutely nothing to do with your service? Its just going to create problems down the line. Ex. URLs.
I honestly suggest, you spend about a week implementing this yourself. Its trivial.
samataro: I'm working full time and using laconica was simply the quickest way to get from the idea stage to up and running. If imgfave take off I'll most likely rewrite it from scratch.
You should be sure that "rewriting from scratch" is going to give your users some concrete benefit that will make them like your site even more, and you should be sure that "rewriting from scratch" is the easiest way to give your users those benefits.
I would understand if this was something big and untested. But IMHO, when a project is as simple as yours is, there is no reason to do it right (not perfect) form the start. There are things you will regret if you start to gain traction.
Basic idea is that you grab the bookmarklet (in the "post" section) and then can add images to your account in two clicks from whatever website your on.
I'd been looking for a good image bookmarking site to use but they are either invite only (ffffound.com) or too cluttered / too many features (weheartit.com, vi.sualize.us).. so I thought I'd make one myself. Feature wise, the only thing new to image bookmarking this brings is the friend following feature.. but I'm hoping imgfave can succeed by staying really simple/easy to use and fast.
Any thoughts or suggestions?