

Ask HN: Please review our site | version 1 - goodlab

Hello HN: The site I am asking for you to review is:<p>www.votetocracy.com<p>Votetocracy is a site where citizens vote on bills in congress and send votes to their reps. Citizen's votes are tallied against the votes of Congress and displayed as agreements or disagreements.<p>We are looking for feedback on usability:
Can you find bills that you would be interested in?<p>Feedback on:
The concept. Are you interested in politics enough to vote on these bills? If your not interested in politics - but are interested in decisions congress makes that effect your life - would you vote on bills?<p>The business model will not be revealed until version 2 so we are not really looking for feedback on that aspect.<p>Looking forward to hearing from you.
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togasystems
Great idea. Couple of notes (I am running Chrome on Mac)

\- You have a drop shadow on the main content. However, it does not show up on
the bottom, only the top and side.

-on <http://www.votetocracy.com/outcomes.html>, the checkmark icons are overlapping the font

\- You button text is being cut off

\- Is there a reason why you need my entire personal information (address, zip
code)

Other than some css fixes, looks good.

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goodlab
Thanks - I'll look into the css stuff. Yes - we need the personal info to look
up your representatives. I guess we could make that more clear. Actually - we
used to ask more info. Things like profession, ethnicity etc. It helps us when
reporting aggregate data. No one really complained - we just took it out for
the moment until we redo some other things.

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goodlab
I wonder why this did not show up on the ask part of the site? It was
submitted without a url.

