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Hey, I am one of the guys behind this. Would love to hear your feedback on the landing page of our upcoming beta.

by bujatt 12y ago

vdaniuk 12y ago
Hey, I love your take on meeting minutes and subsequent collaborative task manager. I feel that your project would benefit significantly from identifying a niche and a customer segment that is most sympathetic to your user experience. Perhaps a "Succinct Team Messaging for Developers" or a tongue-in-cheek "Meeting Minutes DSL" would be a message more inline with a general feel of the app. At least special symbols in your meeting texts demos give a strong programming language vibe. If you are a meeting minutes app made first and foremost by engineers and previewed on HN, you really should think about paying more attention to your early adopters -- programmers, hackers and engineers. Just a customer development thought.
ogig 12y ago
The page works nicely, the video shows what you offer using the precise amount of my time. What feels strange is that the UI you show in the video is not the same as the one that appears below, in the outlined iphones. My mind had to stop and guess; "ok, this is the same thing i watched in the vid". Overall great job on the page, and the product looks interesting too. Wish you luck.
FlyingAvatar 12y ago
I am really excited that you are working on this. I began working on an app extremely similar to this (down to the Twitter/IRC like notation) due to my own frustration with the inefficiency of taking meeting notes. I never finished the prototype, but I'll share my ideas that I felt were important: * Make integration with outside parties easy (i.e. Don't force everyone in the meeting to use the app to get the benefits.) Allow me to add aliases to meeting member's e-mail addresses (i.e. @joe = joe@example.com) Allow me to e-mail a link to the minutes when the meeting is over to all parties. * Scheduling I should be able to send calendar invites to participants of previous meetings / define recurring meetings. If I open up the app it should know what meeting I am in by my schedule. * Continuity Many of my meetings are recurring meetings. At today's meeting, I want to review the open/closed items from the previous meeting. Though I still want a way to delineate what happened in today's meeting. * Self-hostable option For legal / contractual / paranoia reasons, I may need to keep my data in-house. For several of the groups in my company, a cloud-hosted app is a deal breaker. * Plugins I should be able to integrate the user directory with my company's LDAP server. I should be able to promote tasks to real tickets in my project management software. I should be able to reference items from other meetings. Anyway, good luck with your app!
- bujatt 12y ago
  Thanks sharing your ideas, FlyingAvatar. I comment on some of them: - Emailing will be automatic, people receive the memo via email and also access the full document via a link. - We thought on importing last week's items, and have options to bulk hide the items done etc. - Data privacy is definitely a concern of organizations, especially larger ones. That's a hard nut to crack.
matthewrhoden1 12y ago
My first thought was, can I use this on a computer. My second thought was, how I'm going to get others in my office to use it that maybe don't want another account. I really like the idea, because nobody takes meeting minutes besides me and I'm the only one who follows up on them.
- bujatt 12y ago
  Yes, the current version will run in a browser, and only optimised for mobile and tablet. The cool thing is that you don't need to get others to install anything just their email address. I am happy to see that this resonates with you well.
mtm 12y ago
I really like the "markdown" aspect of this. Trello and Hipchat integration would be awesome (actually, how about a nice plugin system or a way to fire off REST calls (and receive them as well))
- bujatt 12y ago
  Thanks mtm. We are thinking on integration and Trello'd be one of first choice. If anyone has other recommendations, please share.
mentat 12y ago
It's nice but I had similar questions as other as to whether it's usable from a web browser. Google Apps integration even just for auth would be key to using it at my company. Apparently I'll have to wait for the 70,000 people ahead of me in the invite process though.
endeavor 12y ago
It looks like a lot of the functionality is only shown in the video, and it moves pretty fast. I wish I could pause it.
cpcarey 12y ago
Like others in the thread, I'm also impressed with how quickly and clearly the landing page video demonstrated the basic functionality. I think you hit the sweet spot with the simplicity of the functionality shown. As you add features in the future that you'd also like to demonstrate in a video (such as calendar events, integration, etc. as suggested in the thread), just be wary of adding them all to one video and consider separate videos if they take long enough. At that point I think an A/B test would be a good idea. But back to the present, I think the current video is great!

Hey, I am one of the guys behind this. Would love to hear your feedback on the landing page of our upcoming beta.

by bujatt 12y ago

Hey, I am one of the guys behind this. Would love to hear your feedback on the landing page of our upcoming beta.

Hey, I love your take on meeting minutes and subsequent collaborative task manager. I feel that your project would benefit significantly from identifying a niche and a customer segment that is most sympathetic to your user experience. Perhaps a "Succinct Team Messaging for Developers" or a tongue-in-cheek "Meeting Minutes DSL" would be a message more inline with a general feel of the app. At least special symbols in your meeting texts demos give a strong programming language vibe. If you are a meeting minutes app made first and foremost by engineers and previewed on HN, you really should think about paying more attention to your early adopters -- programmers, hackers and engineers. Just a customer development thought.

ogig 12y ago

The page works nicely, the video shows what you offer using the precise amount of my time. What feels strange is that the UI you show in the video is not the same as the one that appears below, in the outlined iphones. My mind had to stop and guess; "ok, this is the same thing i watched in the vid". Overall great job on the page, and the product looks interesting too. Wish you luck.

FlyingAvatar 12y ago

I am really excited that you are working on this. I began working on an app extremely similar to this (down to the Twitter/IRC like notation) due to my own frustration with the inefficiency of taking meeting notes. I never finished the prototype, but I'll share my ideas that I felt were important: * Make integration with outside parties easy (i.e. Don't force everyone in the meeting to use the app to get the benefits.) Allow me to add aliases to meeting member's e-mail addresses (i.e. @joe = joe@example.com) Allow me to e-mail a link to the minutes when the meeting is over to all parties. * Scheduling I should be able to send calendar invites to participants of previous meetings / define recurring meetings. If I open up the app it should know what meeting I am in by my schedule. * Continuity Many of my meetings are recurring meetings. At today's meeting, I want to review the open/closed items from the previous meeting. Though I still want a way to delineate what happened in today's meeting. * Self-hostable option For legal / contractual / paranoia reasons, I may need to keep my data in-house. For several of the groups in my company, a cloud-hosted app is a deal breaker. * Plugins I should be able to integrate the user directory with my company's LDAP server. I should be able to promote tasks to real tickets in my project management software. I should be able to reference items from other meetings. Anyway, good luck with your app!

bujatt 12y ago
Thanks sharing your ideas, FlyingAvatar. I comment on some of them: - Emailing will be automatic, people receive the memo via email and also access the full document via a link. - We thought on importing last week's items, and have options to bulk hide the items done etc. - Data privacy is definitely a concern of organizations, especially larger ones. That's a hard nut to crack.

matthewrhoden1 12y ago

My first thought was, can I use this on a computer. My second thought was, how I'm going to get others in my office to use it that maybe don't want another account. I really like the idea, because nobody takes meeting minutes besides me and I'm the only one who follows up on them.

bujatt 12y ago
Yes, the current version will run in a browser, and only optimised for mobile and tablet. The cool thing is that you don't need to get others to install anything just their email address. I am happy to see that this resonates with you well.

mtm 12y ago

I really like the "markdown" aspect of this. Trello and Hipchat integration would be awesome (actually, how about a nice plugin system or a way to fire off REST calls (and receive them as well))

bujatt 12y ago
Thanks mtm. We are thinking on integration and Trello'd be one of first choice. If anyone has other recommendations, please share.

mentat 12y ago

It's nice but I had similar questions as other as to whether it's usable from a web browser. Google Apps integration even just for auth would be key to using it at my company. Apparently I'll have to wait for the 70,000 people ahead of me in the invite process though.

endeavor 12y ago

It looks like a lot of the functionality is only shown in the video, and it moves pretty fast. I wish I could pause it.

cpcarey 12y ago

Like others in the thread, I'm also impressed with how quickly and clearly the landing page video demonstrated the basic functionality. I think you hit the sweet spot with the simplicity of the functionality shown. As you add features in the future that you'd also like to demonstrate in a video (such as calendar events, integration, etc. as suggested in the thread), just be wary of adding them all to one video and consider separate videos if they take long enough. At that point I think an A/B test would be a good idea. But back to the present, I think the current video is great!