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Submitted by: siliconglen
Created: Jul 20, 2006, 3:48 pm

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The Idea

A website and a browser toolbar where people can click on it to submit positive feedback about a site they are browsing or to submit negative feedback and a bug report. The bug report would store the URL with the problem, date and time and the person"s browser details. The comments are stored against the site"s domain in a publically available site for all to see. The motivation for this is to shame buggy sites and to help them fix them. Having tried to report bugs in the past I am frustrated by the lack of an easy way to do this on most sites and the endless menus and options you have to go there - my experience on a helpdesk tells me that most bugs go unreported and the site loses customers as a result. On the positive site, the good feedback would be helpful for the site and would cost a fraction of the amount of running a professional survey. The net site rating would also appear in the toolbar as an indication of the site"s quality and would guide users to quality sites.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Fed up with the effort required to report bugs. Fed up with using broken buggy sites and my comments not being taken seriously until I name and shame them (look for pants websites in Google). Site makes money by delaying access to bug reports for the general public and selling premium access to bug reports for the site owners, allowing them to fix the bug first before word gets out and they are marked down.

Comments Posted

troykelly Posted: July 31, 2006, 12:25 am

Possibly a less negaitve spin would be that bug reports could be instantly raised with sites that register, and the system could also provide some sort of re-test solution - retracting the steps of the user to see if the fault can be reproduced.

Merman Posted: August 4, 2006, 12:45 pm

I think this is somewhat covered by www.stumbleupon.com?

Lal Posted: August 23, 2006, 5:10 pm

Craig,
Sounds a good idea. I make some comments on one of your other ideas and some of them apply here.

Issues I see:
- trying 2 get anough traction across many "comment/rate/rank" sites so u aggregate those as well
- getting enough traction from users (if u get enough then u can make a business out of this)
- user interface 4 users (how 2 comment) needs 2 b brain-dead simple
- trying 2 convert those "comments" into "how 2 improve" suggestions (as opposed 2 its 'crap')
- how 2 converse with businesses and "help them out"
- whats the business model
- may need 2 get UI (or other type) 'experts' 2 offer 'services' as part of your business model

all those comments are based on there is not something else like this out there (have not looked)

Maurreen Posted: May 3, 2007, 2:20 am

I think Alexa, and maybe other sites, do something similar.

ThrasherC Posted: August 1, 2007, 3:08 pm

Good lord how many ideas did you submit for this IdeaWarz competition? This isn't an awful idea, but you're going to have a hard time building any significant user base. I assume you plan on making money from advertising, which would require a pretty substantial number of users coming to the site and clicking ads.

You'd make more money with a web site that would draw and keep a lot more users around.

saigon Posted: August 1, 2007, 10:57 pm

rating buttons perhaps?

vanhees Posted: August 2, 2007, 2:23 am

content?
Tommy

Neelesh Posted: August 3, 2007, 12:19 am

i feel alexa does quite a good job ...

DaveK Posted: August 3, 2007, 9:21 am

I like compete.com

Brenden Posted: August 3, 2007, 6:17 pm

why do you not read the comments?

JelmerBV Posted: August 4, 2007, 10:54 am

This has been done...

hro_jim Posted: August 4, 2007, 10:57 pm

So make the applet a downloaded toolbar that would allow you to give a thumbs up/down and remark? The applet would call-home with the URL and rating/remark? Then users who want to check a site would go to the website to see what is said about it...

Weekly updates on results would come out fridays...Money can be made off advertising, registered providers that get immediate updates on their sites reports...

Cool..Might be hard to separate yourself from the pack but good luck!

Jim

Dutch_Vincent Posted: August 6, 2007, 2:59 pm

DaveK: compete.com gives a quantity estimate, not a quality estimate.

Being a webdeveloper, I really like this idea. You could create a dynamic site directory out of this. However, I wonder whether this hasn't been done yet. Would like to help you out though if it hasn't.

Hello!

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