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Wow, this is one of the coolest projects I've seen recently on HN. I'm not sure why it didn't garner much attention, but I think the concept is clever and the
by guynamedloren 16y ago
Wow, this is one of the coolest projects I've seen recently on HN. I'm not sure why it didn't garner much attention, but I think the concept is clever and the implementation is great. Here are some random thoughts:
- I knew the purpose immediately upon page load
- extremely easy to use
- controls are very intuitive and fun to play with
- preset colors are appealing and easy to adjust
- email field and message field are ridiculously simple to add/remove and look fantastic
- only usability issue: text does not center properly and I'm not sure why the text fields for the welcome message are re-sizeable (running Chrome browser)
From a developer's perspective, it really seems like you put a lot of thought into the user interface. A user who is not tech savvy would probably have a painless time maneuvering about your site and understanding the product, which is definitely one of the most difficult things to accomplish when building a web app for non-technical demographic. That being said, I just re-read your description and it looks like you may be targeting the hacker crowd, which I think is a mistake. Any decent developer (or designer) can hack together a "coming soon" page without very much effort. Also, I don't think this warrants a $9/mo pricetag, regardless of the target demographic. Perhaps you should toy with the freemium model and see how that works out.
Keep up the good work!
- weirdcat 16y agoThanks! I noticed the resizable textareas in Chrome as well; it's on my bug list. I'll look into the centering thing -- I wasn't able to replicate it so far (Chrome on a mac). About me targeting hackers -- I simply assumed, that a lot of people in need of hosted coming soon pages peruse HN. I know I do. :) Re. freemium -- there is a free version (no emails, one page) tucked below the paid plans, 37 Signals style. I'll think about exposing it more -- I wouldn't want to add email to the free plan, because it involves more user support and is used only by serious users, which should afford $9 anyway.