"Full writeup coming another time but mainly it doesn't pick any single word, it maintains a list of possibilities and reduces the list as little as possible with each guess."
Hey, I remember coming across this before on HN! I don't have a dog, but I liked your site, story, and product. Glad to hear it's going well.
By the way, one significant issue I just noticed: if I visit your site on a phone, the name of the company is not visible anywhere near the top of the page. I see the logo has the company name, but it's tiny and not able to be read.
For me, it’s because my muscle memory for a mouse (which I use primarily on my work Windows computer, occasionally on my Mac laptop) is different than a trackpad (which I only use with my Mac laptop). Unfortunately, macOS doesn’t let you set different options for each.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, so FYI: Keynote on macOS defaults to exactly your preferred behavior: pasting images exactly in the middle of your slide.
I have to use both Keynote and PowerPoint for work and this is one of those small things I've come to appreciate.
Weird bug I've never seen before on any other site: I can't use the swiping feature on the Google Keyboard on an iPhone. Using swiping on the iOS 13 built-in keyboard worked fine though.
I have high hopes for this. It feels like Google already has best-in-class features (stuff like Auto-Awesome), but the Google+ integration was holding it back.
Speaking personally, I certainly didn't want to upload my private photos to a social network service where they could inadvertently become public.
I'm not a woman, so take this with a grain of salt, but here's some feedback on the website:
1) Your images are too compressed. The artifacts make it look low quality, like I shouldn't trust the site. If you are selling upscale clothes, you should make sure your images reflect that. Maybe use PNG instead of JPG?
2) The logo on the top left is kind of small and doesn't really stand out (black on white). Perhaps use a different color? Also, the font you used makes it look like you made the logo yourself. I don't know if you did or not, but it doesn't match up with the upscale clothing you're selling. I know there are websites where you can make your own royalty-free logos (google "logo designer" or something), look into one of those maybe? And perhaps try to pick a more distinctive font, maybe something that isn't in a standard install of Word, so it stands out.
3) I have to scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page (had to press spacebar 4 times!) to see actual clothing you have for sale. Most people never go below the fold and would have no idea what your website sells (especially since the name doesn't immediately reflect Asian-inspired clothing). Your name doesn't have to be related to what you sell (just look at Amazon), but I need to be able to immediately figure out what stuff you do sell when I first hit your homepage, either via the logo or pictures of actual stuff for sale above the fold.
4) Related to the previous point, why are the category pictures so huge? I'm on a 13" Macbook Air and all but one of them are larger than the viewport (since you keep the header stuck at the top). I would suggest making them much, much smaller - one or two horizontal rows with 3-4 square category icons). Or cut them down to half the size they are now and move them below the Top Sellers + Featured rows.
5) Your titlebar text doesn't say anything about the site. Good place to put more information about exactly what kind of clothing you're selling (will also help with SEO). Even as simple as "Janjua Clothing - Indian designer clothing" or "Janjua Clothing | Indian clothing | Designer clothes | Affordable prices" or something like that.
6) Your site is very busy right now. If you've tried every marketing tool in the book and you still have no sales to date, perhaps it's time to consider a wholesale redesign. It looks like you're using some type of eCommerce plugin or CMS...do they have any other themes you could use? Perhaps something drastically simpler that maybe only focuses on 1-2 items in your inventory that you know sell well (based on other sites or locally in B&M stores or whatever)?
7) Take a look at other ecommerce and clothing websites and see what design stuff works for them. Rakuten, Blue Nile, Zappos, Dollar Shave Club, etc.
Again, I'm not a woman or a web designer or anything like that. Just a normal dude giving you honest feedback on my first impressions. Hope some of this helps.
EDIT: One more website I just stumbled across: http://www.buffalobottlecraft.com/#products - super simple, one high-quality picture at the top and then 8 products for sale, all shown on the homepage. This is along the lines of what I'm suggesting your website could look like. The most important thing is that this website looks trustworthy. I would feel comfortable buying something from this website. Your website doesn't do that for me yet (sorry, just being honest), so even if I were in your target market, I would hesitate before buying. A good design is invaluable in conveying trust.
Am I the only one that absolutely does NOT want this? I don't care so much about viruses in images, rather I don't want spammers to see that I loaded a custom image and thus my email address is valid.
(A wonderful side-product of rarely loading images is that most newsletter-type emails are vastly easier to read.)
Is it just me or is this worse than before? Slower, much less responsive, and harder to read.
Heck, one of their own graphics shows the issue with the responsive cover images. The "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" article's cover image almost completely crops out the woman on the left when viewed on an iPad or iPhone, which is to my eyes the most poignant part of the image.
I absolutely adored the old Medium design. I applaud them for continuing to innovate, but this one is going to have to grow on me.
I keep seeing allusions to this new, improved GoDaddy...can you provide some details about this? I haven't heard anything about it since moving my domains away from them after the SOPA/elephant stuff.
I know MediaTemple is a good company and wouldn't sell to GoDaddy without reason, so hopefully you can provide some solid justification for staying with you. The current FAQ/blog post don't address GoDaddy's toxic reputation in the tech community at all.
It was also a pleasant surprise when I learned I could hit the ball again while it was in mid-air.