First things first: when you get so much "feedback" on design and almost nothing on the actual function of the app, your alarm bells should start ringing. You are either asking the wrong people for feedback (highly likely considering most people here don't know cricket) or you are not really offering anything interesting.
Get rid of the name fields on the registration form. Add Twitter and Facebook logins.
Have ONE call to action on the homepage. Tell me what this is and ask me one thing to click. Anything more is overload and distraction.
So after I logged in, I went to the HN test match page. I clicked on Cast/Change Predictions, selected my predictions and clicked on close. None of those got saved. When I clicked on Cast/Change Predictions again, they were all reset.
"Contest" doesn't sound like the right word. Think of something more relevant to cricket.
On your "Start a Contest" page, why don't you add Flags of countries which one can drag and drop to make a match. Over time, you could add a list of upcoming international, national and domestic league matches.
Have a look at http://smarkets.com and see what they are doing right. Use the site to see how it works. I used it during the football world cup and it was effortless. I had never used a betting site before.
This is a huge market, so you've done well to start. But try and talk more to hardcore cricket fans rather than us programming nerds.
Thanks for the feedback.
You don't have to register to join the contest. The idea was to show a preview of the contest before joining, hence those extra clicks.
On your "Start a Contest" page, why don't you add Flags of countries which one can drag and drop to make a match.
I think you meant "Start a Private Contest". This feature will help you create only instance of the current contest for your private network. You cannot add or delete matches.
First things first: when you get so much "feedback" on design and almost nothing on the actual function of the app, your alarm bells should start ringing. You are either asking the wrong people for feedback (highly likely considering most people here don't know cricket) or you are not really offering anything interesting.
Get rid of the name fields on the registration form. Add Twitter and Facebook logins.
Have ONE call to action on the homepage. Tell me what this is and ask me one thing to click. Anything more is overload and distraction.
So after I logged in, I went to the HN test match page. I clicked on Cast/Change Predictions, selected my predictions and clicked on close. None of those got saved. When I clicked on Cast/Change Predictions again, they were all reset.
"Contest" doesn't sound like the right word. Think of something more relevant to cricket.
On your "Start a Contest" page, why don't you add Flags of countries which one can drag and drop to make a match. Over time, you could add a list of upcoming international, national and domestic league matches.
Have a look at http://smarkets.com and see what they are doing right. Use the site to see how it works. I used it during the football world cup and it was effortless. I had never used a betting site before.
This is a huge market, so you've done well to start. But try and talk more to hardcore cricket fans rather than us programming nerds.