The buttons at the top are not super obvious, but there are no tooltips to tell you what they are. So I clicked on several and got a sense of what most do, but I didn't want to click the last one (which appears to be log out). Please offer tooltips! (And consider icons that are easier to discern.)
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#12My friend is an Investigative Journalist, I'll share the link with him! Great idea.
Thank you so much.
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#13No pricing for a service that cannot remain free. This never ends well.
It looks like they give you a number of "credits" to do certain activities, but yeah it doesn't show what it would cost to get more.
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#14No pricing for a service that cannot remain free. This never ends well.
We didn't publish pricing as we're in beta mode now. But it's no secret the service will be paid, of course. It will be something in the under a hunded per month range.
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#15Great idea! Would love to see a pricing model implemented as this is something I can see paying for.
Thanks. As we replied to the other user as well, we didn't publish pricing as we're in beta mode now. But it's no secret the service will be paid, of course. It will be something in the under a hunded per month range.
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#16ohsik, how does PostBag compare to PitchBox, which has been doing literally the exact same thing for a while now?
Based on our testing the difference is in quality of matched contacts, number of matched contacts and number of opportunities per search. Also, continuous outreach with monthly web crawls is a feature we're especially proud of.
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#17I did a search on the word dyslexia (my product is heavily used by people with dyslexia), and most of the top results were based on articles that did not use that word at all. They were more likely to be about autism, ADHD, or deafness. In fact, out of the 234 results, the word "dyslexia" only appeared 4 times.
Unless there is something magic going on that I don't understand, this seems like a pretty critical failing. I could do a google news search for "dyslexia" and I would likely get more relevant results (albeit without the authors' email addresses nicely formatted — I'd have to hunt that down on Twitter).
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#18OK, gave it a try.
1. Sign-up process has too many pointless hurdles.
If you have restrictions on the password format, mention them upfront rather than revealing them one at a time after each failed attempt. Better yet, just don't enforce any password restriction at all, until they decide to become a paying customer or there's something else on a record worthy of protection.
Error reporting on the sign-up form is badly positioned. As others already pointed out, it's just not visible because it ends up being above the page edge.
Once signed up, the page shows the "log in" link. Click on that, enter email, password, enter - it asks for confirmation, BUT again asks for email address. Ok, retyped that, copied the confirmation code, enter - Yay, confirmed - now log in afresh. This is as brain-dead flow as it gets. Instead, when trying to log into an unconfirmed account it should just verify the password and ask for a confirmation code. Enter that - get in.
This is however peanuts compared to...
2. The quality of the results.
Here are first 10 items for a "file backups" query, the News section:
Kanbox Looks To Become The Internet File System And Storage ...
Another 74,000 file first-time unemployment claims in Illinois
Forever 21 officially files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Another 108K Marylanders file for unemployment as virus spreads
Intelsat files for bankruptcy protection
Model Out of Work? Here's How to File for Unemployment
Basketball referees, Section V file grievance over work conditions
* Western Digital Proposes Zonefs File-System For Linux 5.6
How to delete your Dropbox account in 5 simple steps
Apple Card Now Supports Exporting Transactions in OFX File Format
The Blog/Web section is similarly way off:
Coppermine: File Move Tutorial
How to generate EBCIDC file include header and ...
It looks like we don't support this file format. How to repair your photo?
How to Make a File Upload Form in WordPress?
How To Copy a File to the User's Current Profile using Powershell
File Folder technique cards Video tutorial
How to Import the SWMM 5 Report File as a Layer in infoSWMM
How to Merge Mails to PDF File
Best Free Online File Storage for Sharing Files on Blogs and Websites
Monitoring Folders Files With SCOM OpsMgr How To Manage Devices
On the plus side, the JournoRequests part looks interesting, but I can't readily judge if the results are relevant and actionable. That said, I don't think Pitchbox had this back when we (fairly unsuccessfully) used it few years ago.
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#20> Your password must contain at least one character out of:
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