However, feel free to contact us at any time you want we will be more than happy to hear from you.

I don’t like the voice and accent of the guy in the video. If you need any help with that feel free to contact me. Or even with the greek stuff too

Good Luck!

For one thing you are more than right:

“Trying to sell this to all audiences on one homepage might be near impossible.”

To be honest the discussions about the homepage and what and how should be shown there took us a lot of time and we have never actually fully agreed on one vision/decision.

Good news is that when you arrive on a service’s homepage you are kind of prepared what to expect (like the case here) you have read an article or heard from friend, etc.

The harder thing is once you get the user, to show him around and “upsale” your service(s) to the next level.

We are working on a call out tutorial procedure for the next update and carefully linking sections from the interface to an explanation from the support center on to how things can be done and what is out there more for the user. Additionally, we are identifying and monitoring the channels from which we get most visitors and in the new version there will be some short explanation texts on these landing pages, so people can get and remember the added value in one sentence.

Also, do not get me wrong but I will be pretty content if a person uses just the Subscription Service of favit, or does nothing else but rating and commenting on items in his favorite groups, and then one day if he has the need explore and other possibilities, start groups of its own etc, but only if he needs it.

Now for the three types of users you have identified – I pretty much believe the third type follows the first two (one) so it will be a good start to show the added value to the curators and then once they start using it the idea will be easily conveyed to their followers.

As far as the real time search goes, we already have it our Subscriptions section, where search is performed in all preselected and trusted sources of information of the platform users, search is lightning fast and bringing nice chronologically ordered results from different platforms – which makes press clipping and media monitoring a piece of cake

I for one am impressed with what they have pulled off, though the UI seems to strike me with feature-overload.

But hey, hats off to the team.

- Sell the power of the service more clearly on your homepage in its next iteration. (and I’m sure you intend to from the other comments) As I work through the copy, the slideshow and the links you send me the concept becomes clear – but how will the average person who doesn’t get a buzz from all this engage with the service? What is their hook?

Sadly most people won’t to know how it works for them then and there. Can this be illustrated high level more simply I wonder?

Actually another point. Potentially you want to work and sell around three types of people.

- People who use the service to manage the flow of informatiom from the online services they use. The platform is used to filter.

- The above who also work as content curators whose aim is to create landing pages like your cycling one.

- Light users who want to join a group about their passion but is unlikely ever to interact or engage in the way a curator might. For them the experience needs to work like second tier social network.

Trying to sell this to all audiences on one homepage (all with different values, and levels of web savvy) might be near impossible.

For the thrid type of user, potentially a really flat clean page (like a google search) called “what’s your passion?” that connects joe public to a group could be great.

Oh dear, I’ve gone off on one again… but you could also use this stream of info from *all* these services to build a real time search engine.

You could even define the semantics of the results using crowd-sourced curator labelling (they’re doing it anyway!).

Cheers!

You can check this video, showing the favit selector (aka favit browser button: http://vimeo.com/5509895 a key feature in sharing/saving content)

Also, here: http://greekstartups.com/startup/favit more detailed description and more about the team, as well as on our English blog: http://blog.favit.com/en/

On our help center: http://favit.zendesk.com/ you can get more info and check some tutorials, pictures from the interface though not all sections are filled up with content yet.