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Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by Lapsa »

ColinWright wrote: post #8

OK, I've gone to your page and had a look ... Nota features an innovative toolbar to help you get the job done What job? Area Selection Tool: Lets you highlight any part of a web page. And best of all it takes a screen capture of the selection! For what? Text Highlighter Tool: Shows copy changes and catches typos in text heavy pages. (Yeah, we're looking at you "Terms of Use" pages.) What? Take the guesswork out of w…

ooh... you were supposed to scroll down? i opened page and thought "nothing here till i hit that damn button" and closed it. ^_^

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by endersshadow »

m4nu wrote: post #28
ColinWright wrote: post #8

OK, I've gone to your page and had a look ... Nota features an innovative toolbar to help you get the job done What job? Area Selection Tool: Lets you highlight any part of a web page. And best of all it takes a screen capture of the selection! For what? Text Highlighter Tool: Shows copy changes and catches typos in text heavy pages. (Yeah, we're looking at you "Terms of Use" pages.) What? Take the guesswork out of w…

Thanks for that. This landing page can sure be optimised quite a bit. Though as today the main problem is not so much converting users from landing page to sign-up but rather getting current beta users (that do not complain in any sort about the app) to actually try it in they day to day workflow. I am striving for feedback, and if no one use the app I can't get any.

You're getting downvoted, which is a shame, but you need to understand that your landing page and branding issues are the exact same issues that you're describing, too. People may sign up for beta, but may not know how to integrate this into their day-to-day workflow. Who's your audience? Web designers? Developers? Do you have an example workflow, so they can see how Nota fits in?

You need to open their eyes--don't expect folks who signed up for your beta to just see what it is to make the leap of, "Oh, I can use it for this!" TELL THEM WHAT TO USE IT FOR. Show them how to use it. Do you have a Getting Started guide? I couldn't find one. You tell me it integrates with Jira, GitHub, and Basecamp. Super. Integrates how? Show me!

Tell me who I am. Tell me who I'm soliciting feedback from. Tell me why it's better right on the site. Don't expect people to just "figure it out." None of your beta users are familiar with your app. You are the only expert.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

#43

Post by untog »

m4nu wrote: post #35
kybernetyk wrote: post #26

What does your site/product do? The first thing I read is something about a toolbar ... a toolbar for what? :)

I guess the smallest version of it is: sticky notes on a live website to ease the web developer / client feedback exchange process.

Then put that on the site. Or something, at least.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by [deleted] »

patio11 wrote: post #29

I would have left you this feedback live on your site, but no widget there, which I feel is a missed opportunity. Anyhow. Talk about how web designers in specifically should be using this rather than getting their feedback over email with non-descriptive explanations like "I feel the paragraph was overshadowed by the icon." "What icon?" "The green one." "On what page?" "The home page." "Oh yay after 3 emails I finall…

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Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by m4nu »

patio11 wrote: post #29

I would have left you this feedback live on your site, but no widget there, which I feel is a missed opportunity. Anyhow. Talk about how web designers in specifically should be using this rather than getting their feedback over email with non-descriptive explanations like "I feel the paragraph was overshadowed by the icon." "What icon?" "The green one." "On what page?" "The home page." "Oh yay after 3 emails I finall…

As much as I'd love to have the snippet in use on the landing page, it wouldn't work "out of the box", I would need to branch the whole app and made one specific for that use.

Couldn't agree more about you comment on the landing page, so no soul crushed there. Optimising that page is definitely on the top of the todo list but even more important now is to know if the app is actually useful for people in their day to day workflow, and I am having quite a bit of trouble to find users willing to try it out - even though the one that registered seem to really like it.

So a bit confused now as to what I should put my focus on from here.

Thanks for the feedback

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

#47

Post by untog »

You appear to have a feedback tool that allows users to select part of the page. That isn't clear, but...

You've made a website feedback tool that allows users to tell the site owner what they think is bad about the site. Why aren't you using it for this thread?

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by LTheobald »

patio11 wrote: post #29

I would have left you this feedback live on your site, but no widget there, which I feel is a missed opportunity. Anyhow. Talk about how web designers in specifically should be using this rather than getting their feedback over email with non-descriptive explanations like "I feel the paragraph was overshadowed by the icon." "What icon?" "The green one." "On what page?" "The home page." "Oh yay after 3 emails I finall…

Completely agreeing with this comment. The first thing I wanted to do was see it in action myself (and by see, I mean use). As soon as I couldn't there & then I left.

The "Right tool for the job" example also was more damaging than useful in a way. You have this huge blowup circle to show the toolbar. But that's over 50% whitespace and even hides the demo you have running behind it.

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by arethuza »

m4nu wrote: post #28
ColinWright wrote: post #8

OK, I've gone to your page and had a look ... Nota features an innovative toolbar to help you get the job done What job? Area Selection Tool: Lets you highlight any part of a web page. And best of all it takes a screen capture of the selection! For what? Text Highlighter Tool: Shows copy changes and catches typos in text heavy pages. (Yeah, we're looking at you "Terms of Use" pages.) What? Take the guesswork out of w…

Thanks for that. This landing page can sure be optimised quite a bit. Though as today the main problem is not so much converting users from landing page to sign-up but rather getting current beta users (that do not complain in any sort about the app) to actually try it in they day to day workflow. I am striving for feedback, and if no one use the app I can't get any.

"if no one use the app I can't get any"

I did sign up and was left puzzled by what to do next - I wanted to try the functionality but the only example I could see was to send feedback to you, and I couldn't see the tools mentioned on the home page.

I suspect nobody can work out how to get started with your product!

Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?

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Post by alttab »

Unlike others, I understood the problem.

Your true problem is unless this web agency is cranking out landing pages for a living - your customer will probably spend more time getting your tool integrated than working with it. And they cease to become a customer when the project is over.

There is value in this, but besides maybe some server hosting, what are you doing that can't be accomplished with an open source JS package?

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