Another work around is to create a pro app and offer in-app purchasing to upgrade to a pro version, at least your profiting from your existing user-base and they know they are not paying for this ripped off version without realising.
I was very impressed with this until I realised that everyone with my birthday will get the same result as me so the count is not accurate with out a specific time of birth. Just saying.Great idea all the same.
Does anyone else think the Nokia Lumia 800 looks like an iPod Nano in design with a touchable screen? The rounded sides and flat top / bottom and the multiple / bright colours.
Like nodata said, you might want to take a look at third-party plugins / add-ons. My friend had an issue with using a third-party advertising company to run adverts on his site and firefox / chrome flagged the JS it embedded as malicious.
From searching and looking around a logo design can cost around $250 on its own, getting a domain to match a pre-designed and brandable logo is a nice idea and i like the concept, will i ever use this? Probably not.
This is what i meant that the user data is valuable otherwise you would have frozen out the existing users and have a web platform you would have to build up a userbase on again, which if this was the case then you would just start your own project as you are starting from scratch. The only upside is existing traffic to the website. Existing users who turn up one day to realise the content they have added is now gone would be a disaster for the user, then asking them to sign back up to recover that data is another unnecessary step.
It was interesting to read that the price does not include the existing users and data. Which would in my eyes, possibly be the most valuable part of purchasing a website like this. You could pay for or develop something similar for much less that the starting price here.
Great post, very insightful. I had not really noticed serivces like FB and Twitter had moved the logout button the way they have until you pointed this out. It is quite a clever idea, as your post suggests sites that offer a service or product require the user to be logged in to get a personalised experience. Users are less likely to logout if they cannot see it as an option.
I would imagine that you / the user is not expecting to be surprised at any point if you use a service like this. I would also imagine that the op would fadeout or disable the ability for anyone else to purchase the same gift. However I am not sold on the idea of all the money raised goes to the User on the event.
For example Christmas you could of paid 50% of the cost to 5 items for friends and families hoping someone else would pay the rest, what if they do not? Come Christmas day your money is just passed to these peoples paypal accounts and you have nothing to give them on the day.
A question would delivery be optional to the User or me as the buyer? So I can give that gift to someone and not just deliver it by post?
I do like the idea and if executed correctly a very useful tool for around Christmas time. But it can be hard to predict the response to a service like this.
Interesting you say about high contrast, all the examples are black on white. Do this mean all content related websites should be white backgrounds and black text?
Not read all comments, but a spelling mistake is obvious on the details images, that explains the button. It says it will turn on and of respectively. This should be off. That is all. Good product all the same.