We Are learning...

It's been little more than a week since 'paahijen TagWise' is up.. and like most of us who do webgiri for the first time, we are keen to check what the response looks like... The usual 'grep'ing and 'sed'ing and 'awk'ing in the access log...

Few things we learnt (which we should have learnt already after the first feedback..)
- Not a lot of users actually check the FAQs
- When users came to 'paahijen' tagwise for the first time, it wasn't quite clear what one is supposed to do with that.. (there were links like signup/signin etc. what do I sign up for? and not a single link to let someone to get started with posting ads.) now that is fixed as well.
- There were some obvious glitches in the way our contents were organized (thanks to legacy.. yes legacy for a one week old baby!)

So we thought about it and decided lets go and fix those things right away -
- Now the Front Page actually shows what 'TagWise' is about ('Free tag-wise advertisements in your language' - a nifty one liner to describe what the application does.)
- We also realized that we confused users a bit more than we should have by having multiple names to Ads - 'post'/'listings'. Now that is fixed and leaves very little confusion. It is "Ads" no more posts/listings.
- Our faq was in a mess (well that was what we thought FAQ should be and not really FAQ) Thats cleared a bit as well.
- We decided to add simple one line tips for users to help while posting stuff on 'TagWise'.

In short, we are learning lessons and yes we hit the first 100 unique IPs as well!! (does that mean much?)

Just before closing this post - I m really tired of asking pilot (Siddharth) to sign up to this blog and start writing.. because he's the one who does bulk of the work!! .... (ok! Atleast sign up!!)