ClearTax
Web and SaaS
tax preparation
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Privacy: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, nice UI
From 2 comments
Love the UI. Very clean design. Note some bugs. I entered a bad URL (https://cleartax.in/badURL) and got this error: Server Error in '/' Application. The IControllerFactory…
yashchandra on HNThis is great app, keep up. Will use this :)
Chirag on HN
Useful for Indian taxpayers
From 1 comment
Hi Archit, its a very nice app for all Indian Tax payers.btw, Including social Media would be helpful in spreading the word fast.
yogrish on HN
Objections
Date entry format is ambiguous and error-prone
From 1 comment
Specify date in format like 25/3/1987 Users will routinely ignore or misinterpret instructions like this. It takes an extra hour or two of work, but either do the three dropdown…
patio11 on HN
Security and data privacy concerns
From 3 comments
One concern would be about the confidentiality of the data. You say it is govt approved, but perhaps you can add some explanation/commitment that there will not be any compromise…
vardhanw on HNThis is true. They have practically everything on you right from your full name to company you work for, to PAN card info and your salary and investments. Even if I trust _you_…
sigkill on HNWhat is your privacy policy? Couldn't find on your site. That's a ton of data you will have which is worth a lot of money if sold raw/processed. Somebody already asked you about…
pyUser on HN
Site looks scammy from WHOIS details
From 1 comment
Looks up whois info: Registrant Name:Gupta Registrant Street1:C block Vikaspuri Registrant Phone:+091.1111111111 It looks... scammy.
something876 on HN
Browser rendering and certificate issues on IE
From 1 comment
In IE8 (WinXP) I get an error in the certificate (CN = *.apphb.com), but the page looks fine. In IE9 I don't get any error, but the page look horrible (don't use the css?). In…
gus_massa on HN
Requests
Add privacy policy and security commitments
From 2 comments
One concern would be about the confidentiality of the data. You say it is govt approved, but perhaps you can add some explanation/commitment that there will not be any compromise…
vardhanw on HNWhat is your privacy policy? Couldn't find on your site. That's a ton of data you will have which is worth a lot of money if sold raw/processed. Somebody already asked you about…
pyUser on HN
Better date input (picker or dropdowns)
From 3 comments
Maybe show a calendar with a dropdown select menu for the year?
revorad on HNYou could still let people type in the year, as that is less ambiguous, but have dropdowns for day and month. Or just have a dropdown for month.
guan on HNOr just use a date picker which comes up when the field gets focus.
statictype on HN
Add social share buttons
From 1 comment
Hi Archit, its a very nice app for all Indian Tax payers.btw, Including social Media would be helpful in spreading the word fast.
yogrish on HN
Questions
How is user data secured and stored?
From 1 comment
This is true. They have practically everything on you right from your full name to company you work for, to PAN card info and your salary and investments. Even if I trust _you_…
sigkill on HN
Are salary data mined for profiles?
From 1 comment
Do you have plans to mine the salary data? you will have access(though only system based, not human) to large chunk of salary information which you can mine to build either user…
seshagiric on HN
Why are passwords requested?
From 1 comment
I don't mind putting in the date really. 25/3/1982 seems to be really unambiguous and clear - well a date control could be added, but I don't think it is needed. I have questions…
altrego99 on HN
Alternatives named
TurboTax
From 1 comment
There is an automatic feature which the user can run which shows certain tax deductions which he/she missed out on. We are going to turn this feature on soon. We don't do…
architgupta on HN