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I'm not sure that I get it. Is it a directory? By the introduction, I was expecting it to be a hosting service -- or a way to consolidate the management of va

by bmelton 17y ago

I'm not sure that I get it. Is it a directory? By the introduction, I was expecting it to be a hosting service -- or a way to consolidate the management of various cloud services through APIs. Upon looking at the page for the first time, I thought perhaps it was an inventorying utility. After stumbling on some good searches, I guess it's a directory I can search for business-ready applications? Are these services hosted on cloudomatic? Are they one-click installs? Wait -- nevermind, it looks like I can set up services with a variety of different services, and this acts as the directory for me -- like a PageFlakes for my services. (Sorry, the format of this might seem like I'm being a douche, but I typically start typing in these posts so you can see my thought process.) Okay, now that I know what it is, I'll say that the design is pretty, but the UI is VERY non-intuitive. Also, some searches return nothing -- this would be okay, if it actually SAID it returned zero results, but all I see is the ajax-loader image disappear.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
no no this is what we WANT. Point is this: You or your startup uses 5-10 web apps, you want a central place to access these apps from with the url pre-configured. No more: "yo, whats the login url for basecamp or google apps?" and clicking around. Yeah, so my hypothesis was that some of the ui wont be intuitive enough, so we left it blank in areas to just get raw feedback: - how do people know what to do out the gate? should we have some apps there from the start? a demo video on the homepage? - for no results, were planning on adding: submit an app along with "no results found". Hope this helps, but youre feedback was actually really helpful. thank you!
- jallmann 17y ago
  You should put that description on there. The copy on the page is not too clear about what the service does -- keeping my webapps in one place? Oh, my webapp LOGINS in one place.
  - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
    okay reworked the copy: Cloudomatic(start) makes forgetting login URLs a thing of the past by keeping your company's web apps in one place . I like that a LOT better. also <b> some key phrases. thank you, that suggestion was helpful. Will iterate on it more tomorrow.
    - asimjalis 17y ago
      What do you mean by login URL? How is that different from a regular URL? Is this a site fir remembering passwords?
- bmelton 17y ago
  Yeah, I wasn't really critiquing so much as just pouring out my train of thought. As for 'how to get started', you could do a video, or probably even a well-worded description of what it is for would help... there is just zero instruction at the moment. The description you gave above is actually pretty close to what you probably want on the homepage, but now that I've figured out what it is, I might just be 'intuiting' the answer from knowledge I already have.

by bmelton 17y ago

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

no no this is what we WANT. Point is this: You or your startup uses 5-10 web apps, you want a central place to access these apps from with the url pre-configured. No more: "yo, whats the login url for basecamp or google apps?" and clicking around. Yeah, so my hypothesis was that some of the ui wont be intuitive enough, so we left it blank in areas to just get raw feedback: - how do people know what to do out the gate? should we have some apps there from the start? a demo video on the homepage? - for no results, were planning on adding: submit an app along with "no results found". Hope this helps, but youre feedback was actually really helpful. thank you!

jallmann 17y ago
You should put that description on there. The copy on the page is not too clear about what the service does -- keeping my webapps in one place? Oh, my webapp LOGINS in one place.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  okay reworked the copy: Cloudomatic(start) makes forgetting login URLs a thing of the past by keeping your company's web apps in one place . I like that a LOT better. also <b> some key phrases. thank you, that suggestion was helpful. Will iterate on it more tomorrow.
  - asimjalis 17y ago
    What do you mean by login URL? How is that different from a regular URL? Is this a site fir remembering passwords?
bmelton 17y ago
Yeah, I wasn't really critiquing so much as just pouring out my train of thought. As for 'how to get started', you could do a video, or probably even a well-worded description of what it is for would help... there is just zero instruction at the moment. The description you gave above is actually pretty close to what you probably want on the homepage, but now that I've figured out what it is, I might just be 'intuiting' the answer from knowledge I already have.