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I built conoteapp.com, it's designed for highlighting text and adding comments rather than specific HTML elements but it fits the bill for being shareable as yo

I built conoteapp.com, it's designed for highlighting text and adding comments rather than specific HTML elements but it fits the bill for being shareable as you don't need to download anything. Drop me a message if you want any help!

mistermann 4y ago
This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message. The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces. I could get by with highlighting text of course, but I think it would be more attractive to have an icon as highlights all over the place would be a bit ugly. Thoughts? (You, or anyone who know a way to accomplish this?) Also, are you paid or free, and what are the odds of this still being a product 5 years from now?
- mgirkins 4y ago
  Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator. How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case? The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Thanks for your feedback.
  - mistermann 4y ago
    > The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look". Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry). Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.

mistermann 4y ago

This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message. The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces. I could get by with highlighting text of course, but I think it would be more attractive to have an icon as highlights all over the place would be a bit ugly. Thoughts? (You, or anyone who know a way to accomplish this?) Also, are you paid or free, and what are the odds of this still being a product 5 years from now?

mgirkins 4y ago
Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator. How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case? The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Thanks for your feedback.
- mistermann 4y ago
  > The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good. Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look". Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry). Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.