Thank you, a second click on the header logo [Coffeestrap /blog] when on blog main page will bring you to www.coffeestrap.com, but we probably need to make it more intuitive!
Hi, we match you for one-to-one Coffees with people speaking different languages, on the basis of your age, gender, and location. Not random languages, but the languages you want to actually want or need to learn, practice, or not forget.
I think a lot of the communication problems come from your name. coffee is the short name of a programming language. And bootstrap programs are things used to start something. It sounds like a programming thing, even though it isn't.
Why not explain it just like this on your landing page? I got the general idea (after finding the landing page) fairly quickly but can't hurt to spell it out I think.
Nice idea by the way, I guess it's a lot like Verbling except in the real world rather than on video chat.
What the hell are those gender symbols?
I chose the one that looked like it didn't have fallopian tubes. Also anticipated a male-first bias and that confirmed the selection. But wow, how about something more common?
It is amazing, we were not expecting such an extraordinary response! Thank you to everybody is writing us with feedback, suggestions, and encouraging words, we are going to answer shortly to all of you!
Sorry for the confusion with coffeescript and twitter bootstrap as well: we though it would be a nice name for a tool allowing you to bootstrap your language in front of a coffee. I think this misunderstanding is probably going to be very HN specific, though! :)
We also apologize for our English inaccuracies, we are getting better everyday, but I guess we need to eat some dogfood and go out ASAP for some coffeestraps..
This is not related to your business at all, but what is it like living (and working?) on Treasure Island? Are there restaurants, bars, etc? It seems like such a weird place being a former military base. Admittedly the only time I've been is for the yearly music festival.
It's actually a wonderful place. Nice and calm. There is one grocery store, one small pub (or as you want to call it) and an avenue centre. A lot of lawns.
Whenever you want the busy mood of the city in 15-25 minutes you are the Transbay terminal by bus (24/7).
It always seemed to me to be cold as hell, with a view worth a billion dollars once or twice a quarter -- how does that correlate with your experience?
It's a bunch if low income housing with a hideous commute anywhere getting onto the bay bridge in either direction is a time consuming venture. There's practically no infrastructure on the island. Hence being inexpensive to live there. Great place to get in with the red mafia though, if that's your thing.
Hopefully you guys can get enough people to sign up to reach usefulness! I signed up. Seattle. :) FYI - Facebook login didn't work for me. Let me know if you can't repro it and I'll send details.
I absolutely love this idea. As I've traveled to different places I've learned how amazing it is to people able to speak to people in their own, native language.
It breaks down barriers between cultures, ideologies and preconceived notions and makes us all just humans.
As an American, it pains me that so many people in the US don't or aren't able to travel to foreign countries and don't make the effort to learn other languages.
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Otherwise, looks cool.
Thank you, a second click on the header logo [Coffeestrap /blog] when on blog main page will bring you to www.coffeestrap.com, but we probably need to make it more intuitive!
Nice idea by the way, I guess it's a lot like Verbling except in the real world rather than on video chat.
- laughed quite a bit; - decided to change the gender symbols;
Totally right.
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Sorry for the confusion with coffeescript and twitter bootstrap as well: we though it would be a nice name for a tool allowing you to bootstrap your language in front of a coffee. I think this misunderstanding is probably going to be very HN specific, though! :)
We also apologize for our English inaccuracies, we are getting better everyday, but I guess we need to eat some dogfood and go out ASAP for some coffeestraps..
Whenever you want the busy mood of the city in 15-25 minutes you are the Transbay terminal by bus (24/7).
Aren't these the universal gender symbols? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_symbol
It breaks down barriers between cultures, ideologies and preconceived notions and makes us all just humans.
As an American, it pains me that so many people in the US don't or aren't able to travel to foreign countries and don't make the effort to learn other languages.
For me, it's been a life-changing experience.