Ask HN: Just how important is an attractive UI?
I've been building a web application at home for a few months now and having a programmers design skills (i.e. none) means that while it works well, it doesn't look that great.
The design itself is using the standard blueprint css grid, has a top nav bar and uses the Jquery UI buttons and so on.  It's not awful it's just fairly simple.<p>I'm getting close to the point where I want to get some trial users but I'm worried that the basic design might put some people off.  You hear so many conflicting things about startups, such as "launch quickly, improve later" versus "great design sells" that I'm not sure the best course of action.<p>So how important is it?