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Hey, I am actually working on something in that vein. It's still pretty early and I am looking for calibration on what people find useful. https://closedloops.

Hey, I am actually working on something in that vein. It's still pretty early and I am looking for calibration on what people find useful. https://closedloops.co https://closedloops.co Any feedback or thoughts appreciated. :) It's a browser extension that you link to multiple services (currently just Figma, Google Docs, and GitHub) then you can correlate different work items (a Figma sketch (?), a GitHub PR and Google Docs, any amount of them) then you will be able to see comments from all of them in one place, the extension, regardless of which work item you are on. The basic idea is to expose engineering thoughts to design to product so everyone sees everyone talking without add'l friction. So say design is discussing changing something, the engineer(s) on the project would see it in their context of GitHub.

quickthrower2 4y ago
Feedback: Idea - I think it is a good problem to solve, for us it would be Slack + OneNote + JIRA + Github mainly. How to solve that problem (should it be an extension, software, or just good human process) I am not sure. I think there is value in the process of writing stuff up manually to a common place (such as a wiki) because we all know that when you start translating the problem into words, you often realize that you don't fully understand the problem! The landing page is a bit thin for me to go further. It has big generic promises, and then the next step is to sign up. For me that is too much friction. Before I sign up I want to know exactly what you are offering and how you are solving the problem. What you have done here is very very common in landing pages, even big companies with massive investments do it. They promise these "emotional benefits" or "vague technical benefits" and then want you to sign up based on that. It costs me $100 to try anything out, even if it is free. That is the cost of my time. So to get me to spend that virtual $100 I need specifics, or I need to know your brand or something so I don't need specifics because I trust the brand. I can't think of a software example off hand though where I trust the brand that much, such is my cynicism! Maybe Apple for hardware would be an example.

quickthrower2 4y ago

Feedback: Idea - I think it is a good problem to solve, for us it would be Slack + OneNote + JIRA + Github mainly. How to solve that problem (should it be an extension, software, or just good human process) I am not sure. I think there is value in the process of writing stuff up manually to a common place (such as a wiki) because we all know that when you start translating the problem into words, you often realize that you don't fully understand the problem! The landing page is a bit thin for me to go further. It has big generic promises, and then the next step is to sign up. For me that is too much friction. Before I sign up I want to know exactly what you are offering and how you are solving the problem. What you have done here is very very common in landing pages, even big companies with massive investments do it. They promise these "emotional benefits" or "vague technical benefits" and then want you to sign up based on that. It costs me $100 to try anything out, even if it is free. That is the cost of my time. So to get me to spend that virtual $100 I need specifics, or I need to know your brand or something so I don't need specifics because I trust the brand. I can't think of a software example off hand though where I trust the brand that much, such is my cynicism! Maybe Apple for hardware would be an example.