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A giant bucket where all of our notifications, important communications, unimportant communications, and entirely irrelevant communications are dumped is simply

by byoung2 12y ago

A giant bucket where all of our notifications, important communications, unimportant communications, and entirely irrelevant communications are dumped is simply an ineffective structure over which to build an effective process. That's the problem we're trying to solve with our startup MorphMail https://www.morphmail.com https://www.morphmail.com

manmal 12y ago
As someone who could someday become a customer, here's some knee-jerk advice for your landing page: - The first screen doesn't "hook" me. Put a background image or product image or something there, and a better punchline. - I'd eliminate half the text and increase font sizes of item bodies. - The "What is MorphMail?" section is a bit convoluted. I want to know why it's better than email. How about a side-by-side comparison with a mobile email client? - The UI shots look very rough and a bit Windows-98-y. I get that those are probably early stage mockups, but I wouldn't consider using an app with this design. To me they are a turnoff, especially when compared to iOS Mailbox or even Gmail. If that sounds harsh, I apologize (please consider that I wouldn't have taken the time if I didn't care); I wish you the best of luck with your product!
- byoung2 12y ago
  That's great feedback! We're a couple of engineers, so the marketing stuff isn't exactly our area of expertise. The current design is just an off the shelf jQuery mobile template to make prototyping easy while we focus on functionality.
  - manmal 12y ago
    I'm a dev too, but have some photoshop skills and have to learn this stuff myself. I can really recommend that one of you gets to know Photoshop/Pixelmator/Sketch and browses a lot of other product pages and apps (so you can "borrow" there.. stealing shamelessly is often a good idea ;)). A product needs someone who cares about that stuff.

by byoung2 12y ago

manmal 12y ago

As someone who could someday become a customer, here's some knee-jerk advice for your landing page: - The first screen doesn't "hook" me. Put a background image or product image or something there, and a better punchline. - I'd eliminate half the text and increase font sizes of item bodies. - The "What is MorphMail?" section is a bit convoluted. I want to know why it's better than email. How about a side-by-side comparison with a mobile email client? - The UI shots look very rough and a bit Windows-98-y. I get that those are probably early stage mockups, but I wouldn't consider using an app with this design. To me they are a turnoff, especially when compared to iOS Mailbox or even Gmail. If that sounds harsh, I apologize (please consider that I wouldn't have taken the time if I didn't care); I wish you the best of luck with your product!

byoung2 12y ago
That's great feedback! We're a couple of engineers, so the marketing stuff isn't exactly our area of expertise. The current design is just an off the shelf jQuery mobile template to make prototyping easy while we focus on functionality.
- manmal 12y ago
  I'm a dev too, but have some photoshop skills and have to learn this stuff myself. I can really recommend that one of you gets to know Photoshop/Pixelmator/Sketch and browses a lot of other product pages and apps (so you can "borrow" there.. stealing shamelessly is often a good idea ;)). A product needs someone who cares about that stuff.