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Rate my startup: 2easyOffice.com - the easiest way for groups to work together

1 points by all 16y ago

We have launched 2easyOffice, the easiest way to work in groups. Please review our website at http://www.2easyoffice.com. If you would like to take the suite for a spin, here is a discount code that you can use to get 2easyDaily for free for one month. HACKERNEWS1 Note that the code is only good through Wednesday (4 August). Thanks for looking. All constructive criticisms and advice gladly received.

maxdemarzi 16y ago
You need to get a designer to redo your homepage, and you to put in some more work toward marketing. You may have a fantastic product, but the website looks like it was done in 5 minutes back in 1997. Lose the javascript "not there yet" alerts and just put some copy of what will be there. Good luck.
- all 16y ago
  Thanks. We'll see about getting a site redesign done. I have removed the javascript alerts and put in links to copy about what will be there. I really appreciate your feedback.
ljf 16y ago
Page is taking a long time to load right now, so maybe upgrade your servers? Guess you are getting a lot of HN traffic. As the other said design needs improving, and sell me what your are offering with less text, and highlight what I am getting and what the benefits are. Took me a while to see what it was going to cost, and no way to test for free. Good luck though, seems like some good ideas in there.
- all 16y ago
  As I replied to the other, the site is taking a hit right now. We are looking at ways to speed things up beyond the load balancing that we already doing. Thanks. Thanks also for your feedback. We will definitely be getting a site redesign. As for testing for free, do you mean a perpetually free account or a discount for 30 days or something like that? Thanks immensely for your encouragement, too.
  - ljf 16y ago
    Sorry for slow reply - just a short test account, even 7 days - just to get a real idea of why what you do is going to really work for me. Then once you got me, offer my the upsell ;)
rcavezza 16y ago
It's not loading for me in Chrome
- all 16y ago
  It is taking a hit on traffic at the moment. I tried it in Chrome and, while it is slower than usual, it is coming up. We have load balancers on the site that should handle some of the traffic. But we are also looking into giving it a bit more juice for the current peak. Please persevere, and thanks for looking.
zan_shikai 16y ago
Too much text on the front page. Links that are there are not intuitive (IMO links should always be underlined or atleast a different color). I agree with what the others are saying about the site design. I would also suggest you lose the images on the top of the page. What really threw me off was the passphrase required while logging on. 'When you create your account, you are requested to enter a passphrase. This works in a similar way to a password, except you are not expected to enter the whole word when logging on. Instead, you are to enter specific characters of that single word as requested by the 3 boxes displayed at the login screen.' Why would you do that to your users?
- all 16y ago
  Thank you very much for reviewing our site and giving such helpful feedback. The passphrase idea is explained in some detail here: http://2easyoffice.com/tour7.php http://2easyoffice.com/tour7.php The short of it is that we wanted to offer something with more security than usernames and passwords. We can include a captcha, as well or alternatively. But we thought that, if we are going to put a bit of extra work on the login, why not make it count toward more security than just the annoyance of a captcha alone? Our perspective was that users trust us with their information. We want to treat that trust with the utmost respect by doing everything in our power to secure the login process.

1 points by all 16y ago

maxdemarzi 16y ago

You need to get a designer to redo your homepage, and you to put in some more work toward marketing. You may have a fantastic product, but the website looks like it was done in 5 minutes back in 1997. Lose the javascript "not there yet" alerts and just put some copy of what will be there. Good luck.

all 16y ago
Thanks. We'll see about getting a site redesign done. I have removed the javascript alerts and put in links to copy about what will be there. I really appreciate your feedback.

ljf 16y ago

Page is taking a long time to load right now, so maybe upgrade your servers? Guess you are getting a lot of HN traffic. As the other said design needs improving, and sell me what your are offering with less text, and highlight what I am getting and what the benefits are. Took me a while to see what it was going to cost, and no way to test for free. Good luck though, seems like some good ideas in there.

all 16y ago
As I replied to the other, the site is taking a hit right now. We are looking at ways to speed things up beyond the load balancing that we already doing. Thanks. Thanks also for your feedback. We will definitely be getting a site redesign. As for testing for free, do you mean a perpetually free account or a discount for 30 days or something like that? Thanks immensely for your encouragement, too.
- ljf 16y ago
  Sorry for slow reply - just a short test account, even 7 days - just to get a real idea of why what you do is going to really work for me. Then once you got me, offer my the upsell ;)

rcavezza 16y ago

It's not loading for me in Chrome

all 16y ago
It is taking a hit on traffic at the moment. I tried it in Chrome and, while it is slower than usual, it is coming up. We have load balancers on the site that should handle some of the traffic. But we are also looking into giving it a bit more juice for the current peak. Please persevere, and thanks for looking.

zan_shikai 16y ago

Too much text on the front page. Links that are there are not intuitive (IMO links should always be underlined or atleast a different color). I agree with what the others are saying about the site design. I would also suggest you lose the images on the top of the page. What really threw me off was the passphrase required while logging on. 'When you create your account, you are requested to enter a passphrase. This works in a similar way to a password, except you are not expected to enter the whole word when logging on. Instead, you are to enter specific characters of that single word as requested by the 3 boxes displayed at the login screen.' Why would you do that to your users?

all 16y ago
Thank you very much for reviewing our site and giving such helpful feedback. The passphrase idea is explained in some detail here: http://2easyoffice.com/tour7.php http://2easyoffice.com/tour7.php The short of it is that we wanted to offer something with more security than usernames and passwords. We can include a captcha, as well or alternatively. But we thought that, if we are going to put a bit of extra work on the login, why not make it count toward more security than just the annoyance of a captcha alone? Our perspective was that users trust us with their information. We want to treat that trust with the utmost respect by doing everything in our power to secure the login process.