Isn't JIRA Capture by Atlassian pretty much the same? Probably with better integration with JIRA, which you recommend in your page for issue tracking... https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/capture
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?
#52From browsing the comments it seems like you mostly rely on online feedback from the betatesters. I think you need to move one step back. You have identified a pain point (from your own experience) and a way to solve it but are you really sure you're targeting the right people and the pain is big enough?
I think you should find some people that you think have the identified problem, see if/how they solve it and meet them in person to demonstrate your cure. It's costly (time/travel) but I think it'll clear up a lot of things. You can learn A TON from this. Seriously find ~20 people and meet them in real life.
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#53I 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 a designer the last thing I want is a client to be drawing boxes all over the screen pointing out what they don't like.
It makes it much more difficulty to manage expectations and talk them round to my way of thinking. I'd rather they vocalise their issues and I can tackle them as I see fit and justify my position the same.
This is app is just "hovering client as a service"
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#54The problem is, nobody wants to be the evil guy that rips another guy's dream to shreds. That's why, when asked directly, people will always say that your thing is a cool idea, looks great, etc. It is said that entrepreneurs need to develop hard skin. I propose that this hard skin should extend to ignoring this kind of vapid feedback. Because with our typical starry-eyed optimism (/ denial), we often see these as val…
Well I thought about that. Tho I am getting spontaneous feedback from people telling they love the app. Actually the few I've asked feedback to, more often than not don't answer..
I am Ok with dismissing the idea or pivoting if I have too, but I can't do that without understanding what went wrong.
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#55OK, 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. ^_^
I can't count how many times I've had to tell designers that their great design idea of resizing the first "tile" to perfectly fit the viewport was a UI (and conversion) disaster.
It's also a well known problem referred to as a "false bottom." See number 15 here: http://goodui.org/
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#56Is there a way to allow clients to create annotations on a project without creating an account? Maybe through a private URL?
From poking around I didn't see a way to do that. Without that I wouldn't really use it.
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#57You might be onto something. Could this be easily converted into an annotation tool for machine learning purposes? It looks like you could use it to annotate images and text. You need an interface to create annotation schema. Then, you need to have two or more annotators per text/image. And finally, you calculate inter-annotator agreement and export the data.
I know that there are couple startups that got seed money for "annotating the web". For example "Rap Genius".
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
My target market is small (2~10 employees) web agencies. I worked for such companies and build that app to address the pains they have with the feedback loop. So far I have mostly been doing cold mailing to very targeted market and made some promotion through listing site (betalist, reddit). I had about 300 users out of this. The type of feedback I got so far sounds like: "Great app will save me lot of time!!" yet af…
Have you spoke to those users that stopped using the site. Seems like they're you're biggest chance to find what's wrong. You can get as many users as you want, but if you can't keep hold of them then you'll still have problems. Find out why they started, then find out why they stopped. Maybe it wasn't right for them in the first place, in which case you can focus on the people it is right for. Maybe there's somethin…
I've seen several strategies like this to improve startups/sideprojects
Keep statistics on people who have:
signed up but not set up your product The best way to do this is to send a personal email to the users. You should be able to get some real feedback and if you're responsive to their suggestions get some customers for life
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#59I still have no idea what your product does. Make at least a video(2-3 minutes) that defines the problem and shows how it is solved using your software.
Re: Ask HN: Everyone loves my startup concept, why is no one using it?
#60Does this only work on static pages or is there a way to annotate dynamic pages as well?
While I don't disagree with a lot of the feedback about better communicating certain things on the page, I thought I would say that I understood immediately what your does. That's to say, I think others are being a bit hyperbolic when they say they have no idea even after scrolling.