Ask HN: Review my app, ChatThrough.com

[y3di]

Hey HN, My partner and I recently launched http://ChatThrough.com a site for finding and creating random-chat groups.

Can you guys take a look at it and see whether you have any suggestions or advice for us?

I'm not a designer and I had to design the site, so if anyone has any tips for improving the overall design.

Also we're curious as to how we can attract users.

Thankyou for your help! (check out blog.chatthrough.com for further info)

[x0ner]

I always find myself interested in the latest chat-related stuff getting pushed out there, so I took a look at this. I can't help but think of the old school AOL group chats. What makes this any different then other established chatting infrastructures?

[y3di → x0ner]

I believe that my homepage doesn't properly describe the purpose of this app. Have you ever heard of healcam.com or seshroulette.com? Those are random-chat (chatroulette) apps for patients and stoners respectively. Our goal with chatthrough is to allow people to create their own 'chatroulettes' for any topic or community. Our purpose in creating this was to give different communities an easy way to randomly meet others from the same community who share the same interests.

[svrocks]

Is there a reason why r/trees is the only subreddit with a chat group ;-)

[y3di → svrocks]

We're trying to get users, and I figured the r/trees crowd would love an app like this.

[y3di]

http://chatthrough.com http://blog.chatthrough.com