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The team deserves a congratulation to produce and ship a decent product on both platforms in a relatively fast pace given their limited resources (they're not A
by salimmadjd 13y ago
The team deserves a congratulation to produce and ship a decent product on both platforms in a relatively fast pace given their limited resources (they're not Adobe or MS).
However, I'm critical of the site and the HN post.
It seems to me the post links to checkout page to increase conversion. Or at least that was the intent of it. However, this is not a small purchase and I think they lose even more by sending them to what looks a like a blind alley.
Secondly, the page has a coupon code option. Right away I know I don't want to pay the full price.
I think the product can save you enough time to warrant the price asked, but I think I would have bought it if the HN post included a 50% coupon. Especially if it they had a V1 2-day sale option. Not only I would have bought it, but I would have shared on FB and twitter. Given many HN readers are influencers that would have been a good marketing move.
All these aside, I think their videos are horrible. Especially for a $180 product. If the scripts were a bit more polished they could have covered as much in half the time. They also lack the big picture intro followed by diving into details. For example: we are able to create global styles an apply it to different objects. Let me show you how it's done....
To get very picky, the narrator's voice is a bit whiny. I have made videos in the past and we spend 1-2 hours just on polishing the script and I offered a friend with a great voice free lunch to come and narrate the video. So it can be done.
Still, kudos to the team!
- taylorlapeyre 13y agoOP here. I am not in any way affiliated with the Macaw team, I'm just a fan that was closely watching. The reason I linked to the checkout page was that Hacker News would not allow me to submit a link to their home page because of a past submission. I urge everybody who does not see a lot of information about Macaw here to check out http://macaw.co/ http://macaw.co/. Sorry about any confusion and to the Macaw team if this was not the destination that they intended.
- eridius 13y agoI have not experimented with HN's anti-duping, but couldn't you do something like http://macaw.co/# http://macaw.co/# or http://macaw.co/?1 http://macaw.co/?1
- taylorlapeyre 13y agoI'm sure I could have, and I wish I could have thought of that before! If a Hacker News admin would like to change this link destination, they are more than welcome to.
- GFischer 13y agoTheir navigation is not very good... I couldn't go back to macaw.co from their signup page, and I didn't know what it is. However, once I read about it, it sounded pretty nice. My first thought is that it tries to encourage the same workflow as Microsoft's Blend?
- mgoszcz2 13y agoWeb design TUTS+ have a coupon code 'TUTS' for $30 off. http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-to-know-macaws-tools--cms-20480 http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-to-know-maca...