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Startup Review : Diditz.com - “I Am What I Do”
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At one point in time, there was an influx of travel portals in India. So, hundreds of crores (yes!) went into funding of different travel portals. Some survived, others did not.
The latest fad seems to be the “Log Your Life” kind of websites. The tagline of Twitter explains it better - What Are You Doing?
So, these websites encourage you to log each activity that you did as you move ahead in life. Not just writing blogs - having coffee, reading a book, going for a movie, your impression of the movie, the pictures you click at the last trip to Goa, anything goes.
Twitter, kind of, made this hugely popular. Then, there have been Indian editions like LifeinLines.com.
Sometime back, I received an invitation from Diditz.com, another of such sites. The site is in its alpha stage right now.
Here is what I thought of it.
Well, the concept does look good for a while but three minutes into it and you know where it is all getting to. The similarity to the familiar services are immediately established.
The sign up form doesn’t even have a confirm password field. Bad! Although the sign up was pretty simple, their age verification is messed up a bit. Harshal tried to sign up and he was listed as a 39-year old. (He is 17, I think). See the screenshots.
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A lot needs to be done on the interface. It was hard to find the buttons for common tasks like Edit Profile, Settings etc. The look of the website on the whole was cluttered too and not very pleasing on the eye.
The search option didn’t work that great as well and the “invite others” section was sitting in the nook and corner of the website.
There are some good points, though.
The hot-around section was quite satisfactory. It delivers you stories in Diditz.com, that match your preferences. Kind of ‘feeds’.
If it needs to stand up among other sites in the domain, it needs to have some real compelling value, which, we failed to see at this point. The posts are termed as Experiences, which simply put, are blog-posts. Ok, may be mini blog posts.
Lifeinlines.com is still better than Diditz.com. After playing for a while, you lose interest in the site.
However, it would be good to test it out once. The site is still in alpha stage (pre-beta) . The founders have promised free demo accounts to the WATBlog readers.
To receive an invite, readers can send a mail with the subject (Inviteme) to : webmaster@diditz.com.
Tell us how did you like the product!
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PS: Thanks to Harshal for doing the review.
Thanks to Sohit Karol , Co-founder, Diditz.com for providing the lead.
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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the review and an honest opinion. We would like to emphasize that we are still in private alpha, and the alpha version would be released in a few weeks from now. The website has practically been developed by a single programmer, so we are looking for a lot feedback from the tech community, because despite our best efforts, there would be some bugs which escape our eye.
Further, Diditz has been designed to provide more visibility to the content created by average bloggers: people who do not care about SEO, or updating their content regularly. Our detailed pitch could be found on the following links:
http://tinyurl.com/6bmfow
http://tinyurl.com/6p67ms
Hoping to get a lot of feedback from your readers!
THe Diditz Team
Apparently the reviewers are rookies and don’t know much about HCI..leave aside an in depth analysis of SNs….I’m not an expert on the latter and I don’t know how this idea will fair in the long run….but considering the website is in private alpha,the design guys have done a fabulous job….some of the best practices have been employed and the interface is clean most of the times…..and picking on things like “the signup form doesn’t have a confirm password field” - well, probably the reviewers haven’t signed up on facebook so far!
as for the WATBLOG team….your interface needs a lot of upgradation as well..its an overdose of blue and lutter…and considering your a big team, I would expect some housekeeping sometime soon:)
well jasmine we have mentioned that they have done a good job Wrt that the site is in private alpha but we just did a review from a Normal user perspective.the way a first time visitor of this site will feel and is the site compelling enough to keep that user hooked to it.well we know that facebook doesn’t have a confirm password field but that’s “Facebook” this is a new startup and we were just trying to show it the right light.
and regarding watblog’s design ur free to contact our Cheif blogger at rajiv.dingra(at)gmail(dot)com