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Neat idea! We recently stumbled upon the store information in OpenStreetMap and have been trying to decide what we want to with it. I think there are several in
by NetToolKit 7y ago
Neat idea! We recently stumbled upon the store information in OpenStreetMap and have been trying to decide what we want to with it. I think there are several interesting possibilities, but I'm mulling over whether they might be commercially viable.
You might get some more feedback if you don't require registration to test out your platform (I personally am not thrilled about creating yet another account just to try something out). A compromise would be to allow users to enter the query, and only see say, the top three results. In order to see the rest, users could be required to register. That way, people can test out the flow of the service before deciding whether to give you their email addresses.
I personally think your previous language of "bait" and such was cute. You have a pond theme, and you could commit to it further by having graphics like "fishing expedition" or a net to represent the catch. I'm not a marketer, so it's quite possible that manigandham is right. Nevertheless, I suspect that a single data point should not be enough to change your theming either way.
Hope that helps!
- laurentabbal 7y agoThanks! Many people were not convinced by the analogy with fishing. So I changed the text to something more classic: projects / lists. Less fun but more serious... If I have a time today, I will set up a demo that will not require registration. Thanks for the advice.
- NetToolKit 7y agoThe demo is a little unclear. The instructions says to "Click [shape]" and I think you should probably delete that, since I don't see the shape anywhere else on the page. Starting with "Click where to start" is probably clear enough, although I think you can clarify the language further. After someone clicks the "delete selected shape" button, you should probably resume the click-shape mode (with the crosshair cursor). It took we a while to figure out how to start clicking the shape and that I need to refresh the page if I want to restart. Beyond that, I only got it to give me results when I specified a very small area; my earlier attempts encountered a "too big" error. I would guess that you are running into performance issues for larger areas, but limiting the area too much makes the demo less impressive.
- laurentabbal 7y agoThanks. I will take into account these remarks.