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Old February 1 '10, 09:20 AM (#1)
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URoomSurf.com - Launched Today!

So we launched the URoomSurf College Roommate Matching Service today! It was crazy... we had a countdown going on the site to launch it at midnight. We weren't expecting a lot of traffic, maybe 1 or 2 people who waited up... but we got 1000s of concurrent users all at once at midnight!!! Sheesh... it took the VPS down for a little while, and we had to upgrade it to 8x the size!

Anyhow, the site's up and running now! have a look through it and post your comments!!! Thanks!
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Old February 1 '10, 12:52 PM (#2)
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Pretty cool site. I'm curious what your business model is. I see that you're going to add an Amazon style store. Is that where all your revenue will come from?

I personally do not like the logo. It looks like a logo that's making fun of Web 2.0 clichés.

This page is empty: http://www.uroomsurf.com/content/testimonials

Overall I like the site design and the copy. Whoever wrote your website understands how to keep things short and readable, kudos! I knew exactly what the site was about very quickly.

Keep up the good work.
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Old February 1 '10, 04:21 PM (#3)
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A good and well managed and properly worked site. Its seems that you have done through study and made it . Good Work much appreciated.
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Old February 1 '10, 06:05 PM (#4)
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Thanks guys!

Vin, it's not exactly my business... I developed the site for a client. They have multiple revenue sources from what I understand.
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Old February 2 '10, 10:37 AM (#5)
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Hallo! I like this chilly coloration of your website – the combination of green and blue brings calmness to my eyes and mood.
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Old February 10 '10, 07:48 PM (#6)
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smoos, its not loading. ill check back.
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Old February 10 '10, 11:16 PM (#7)
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Dorky,

We've been getting too much traffic!!! The site goes down every day between 6pm and midnight EST.

We're working hard on performance optimization to prevent this from happening.
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Old February 11 '10, 01:31 AM (#8)
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very nice. i do believe that is a great example of web 2.0
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Very nicely done. I like the colors very much.
I don't think your title tag is very good for SEO. Maybe something like college roommate finder ought to be included. URoomSurf won't mean anything to search engines. Plus you have it twice. Maybe URoomSurf | College roommate finder
That makes 35 characters with spaces. Up to 66 will show up in a search result so you could even add another keyword or two.
I would also encourage you to add a description tag as this is what shows up in a search result as well and is your "advertisement" for the site. You can use up to 150 characters with spaces and "sell" your site.

Last edited by kenjpet; February 16 '10 at 12:13 PM. Reason: Wanted to add more
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Old February 16 '10, 01:15 PM (#10)
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Good points, ken! Thanks!
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A great idea and a nice site. Works well and fast. Design is good for my eyes. Loads fast and is short and to the point. We like.
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Ok so we added chat to the site (gotta log in to use it).

And here''s an AMAZING stat....

URoomSurf just tied WebDesignForums for registered members (17,400), a feat that has taken over 7 years for WDF... URoomSurf did it in 24 days!
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Holy Sheet! That's incredible. I bet we see ads for this on TV soon!
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I don't know what changes you have made but your load time has increased.
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We added a chat room script. I think that's slowing down page load.
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hey smose, keep me in touch with how your amazon associate store does.
i have one on my site , just want to see if u have success with it.

thanks =)
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Not sure if we're going to do it... will let you know!
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OMG DO IT.
http://alldeathnote.com/deathnotestore.php

THis took 10minutes to setup...I wish i had set this up a year ago when i started the site, i might have made a few sales, ive made like $25 with adsense, 4 or 5 sales over a year would have given me more than that.

Anyways, speaking from someone whos set a store up...its quick, easy to build pages, and extremely easy to integrate (iframe)
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In my opinion this is an amazing site. I can't imagine the hours of work put into to getting this site working "behind the scenes". Looks like some really detailed PHP/MySQL scripts....
For the keywords "college roomate finder" the site is on the second page on google.ie anyway. Just a tiny note: There is no favicon displaying on my Firefox? Just a tiny tiny thing.
Anyway really good site.
Oh and I like the way you slightly copied Facebook's chat script. Genius.
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Thanks so much for the positive feedback, guys!
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