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Do you think this form of interactive timeline could prove useful?

1 points by alexkearns 15y ago

alexkearns 15y ago
Hello. Single founder here. Developing web-based interactive timeline software. We've just launched a major new way of viewing timelines, and would love some feedback. We've also redesigned our home page: http://www.tiki-toki.com http://www.tiki-toki.com (it was previously just a full-page timeline).
anteyekon4myst 15y ago
Useful yes (I work with a lot of temporal visualizations) and I would use it but... Free Version is limited to 1 timeline. You're not going to generate enough engagement/ commitment off of your freemium model especially since it's just a point solution (only one novel type of visual narrative). No one will feel like they need it or are comfortable with it enough to purchase. My suggestion. Increase freemium to three timelines. 1.Give people a chance to do cool things with it and experiment.. 2. Because the temporal aspect is only a part of a story, I would suggest working on product integration (Powerpoint or one of its alternatives, Prezi etc.) 3. Or an alternative strategy would be to get a few types of clean slick visualations. I could see people paying for a package.
- alexkearns 15y ago
  Thanks for the useful feedback. Just to clarify. The banded timeline is a new way of showing timelines with our software. We also have a standard way ofshowing timelines, an example being: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-based-timeline-software/ http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-bas... And we're also working on a Gantt chart style visualisation, which might fit in with your suggestion 3. Not sure about integration with PowerPoint and Prezi. Don't get me wrong. It is a great idea. But our timeliness are in HTML/CSS and JS, so am not sure how easy (or even possible) it would be to integrate with them. Maybe I am being a bit mean with the number of timelines in the free account but I worry that if I give the free accounts too much, no-one will upgrade. Anyway, you have given me food for thought. Thanks!
  - anteyekon4myst 15y ago
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul/21/phone-hacking-what-happened-when http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul... you should remodel that in your software. The gaurdian's version is very clunky.
genrand 15y ago
I think it's very nice. I would like to see the ability to integrate it into other projects, to buy it as plugin instead of a monthly subscription service. I also think you should give more details on how to create and embed a timeline, a video of the proccess would be excelent. nice job!
- alexkearns 15y ago
  A video tutorial would be great. And is definitely something on our todo list. Along with a FAQs and other useful stuff.

1 points by alexkearns 15y ago

Hello. Single founder here. Developing web-based interactive timeline software. We've just launched a major new way of viewing timelines, and would love some feedback. We've also redesigned our home page: http://www.tiki-toki.com http://www.tiki-toki.com (it was previously just a full-page timeline).

anteyekon4myst 15y ago

Useful yes (I work with a lot of temporal visualizations) and I would use it but... Free Version is limited to 1 timeline. You're not going to generate enough engagement/ commitment off of your freemium model especially since it's just a point solution (only one novel type of visual narrative). No one will feel like they need it or are comfortable with it enough to purchase. My suggestion. Increase freemium to three timelines. 1.Give people a chance to do cool things with it and experiment.. 2. Because the temporal aspect is only a part of a story, I would suggest working on product integration (Powerpoint or one of its alternatives, Prezi etc.) 3. Or an alternative strategy would be to get a few types of clean slick visualations. I could see people paying for a package.

alexkearns 15y ago
Thanks for the useful feedback. Just to clarify. The banded timeline is a new way of showing timelines with our software. We also have a standard way ofshowing timelines, an example being: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-based-timeline-software/ http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-bas... And we're also working on a Gantt chart style visualisation, which might fit in with your suggestion 3. Not sure about integration with PowerPoint and Prezi. Don't get me wrong. It is a great idea. But our timeliness are in HTML/CSS and JS, so am not sure how easy (or even possible) it would be to integrate with them. Maybe I am being a bit mean with the number of timelines in the free account but I worry that if I give the free accounts too much, no-one will upgrade. Anyway, you have given me food for thought. Thanks!
- anteyekon4myst 15y ago
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul/21/phone-hacking-what-happened-when http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jul... you should remodel that in your software. The gaurdian's version is very clunky.

genrand 15y ago

I think it's very nice. I would like to see the ability to integrate it into other projects, to buy it as plugin instead of a monthly subscription service. I also think you should give more details on how to create and embed a timeline, a video of the proccess would be excelent. nice job!

alexkearns 15y ago
A video tutorial would be great. And is definitely something on our todo list. Along with a FAQs and other useful stuff.