Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Depot

depothq.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 44 posts

Re: Show HN: Depot

#11

Post by risratorn »

netnichols wrote: post #2

This has nothing to do with the actual product, which may be great, but... I am so ready for the trend of hyper-animated websites to start dying down. I scrolled through the whole website, and while it looked great, by the time I got to the end I still had no idea what the product actually offered because my eyes were too busy watching all the little animations to pay attention to the content.

It's not necessarily the color or the animations, I feel the page as a whole doesn't do a great job of communicating what the actual product is/does.

Nice fonts and icons but it fails to bring across the message. A little more text and some screenshots would have gone a long way imho.

Re: Show HN: Depot

#12

Post by ryanmitchell »

rtpg wrote: post #8

slightly off-topic but is there a term for the sort of syncing between the vertical scrolling and the animations? Is there some canonical thing everyone is using to implement this? Really like the art style, dunno how much bigger companies will want to pay their bills (i.e. invoices you send) via Paypal though, 2.x% of 5 digits is a decent amount of cash

We call it parallax scrolling, but I'm not sure thats the correct industry term.

Anyway we used a version of Skrollr for the animations: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr

Re: Show HN: Depot

#13

Post by ryanmitchell »

kmfrk wrote: post #6

The "Learn More" section is ... well not a place where I learned more. A tour of some sort would be great for a brief explanation of the product. Fabulous webdesign, though, and bonus points for SSL.

Thanks for the feedback - we'll definitely follow up on that.

Re: Show HN: Depot

#15

Post by theanti9 »

morganwilde wrote: post #4

I don't agree with the comments that the site looks bad. For one, the font is amazing! The layout is extremely clear and functional, a lot of carefully crafted details make this site very polished. Thumbs up!

I think the overall design does looks great; very polished and well done. Although I will admit, the background is a tad retina burning at night on a bright screen (at least for me).

Re: Show HN: Depot

#16

Post by krmmalik »

Does this support an ability to set up project templates or do any kind of business process/workflow management?

I have a specific business proces/structure that I need projects to run through with various roles intersecting at various stages. Each delegate needs to know what their role is and when they need to perform it.

Can this handle something like that?

Also do you have any integrations available for Zapier? (Or Xero?) -- I'd like to send the invoices to Xero, but also, i'd like to integrate with other apps so i can send data back and forth.

If anyone from depothq.com is reading this; I'd love some more info and if possible even a skype call.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Depot

#17

Post by ryanmitchell »

krmmalik wrote: post #16

Does this support an ability to set up project templates or do any kind of business process/workflow management? I have a specific business proces/structure that I need projects to run through with various roles intersecting at various stages. Each delegate needs to know what their role is and when they need to perform it. Can this handle something like that? Also do you have any integrations available for Zapier? (O…

Hey - do you want to drop me an email ryan at depothq dot com with your use case and we'll see if the product fits your needs?

Re: Show HN: Depot

#19

Post by elsurudo »

swombat wrote: post #9

Nice site, but I'm always puzzled by this idea that a business can be managed entirely with a cookie-cutter product. Surely if your business can run on something like that, it has zero competitive advantage, right? In practice, I find that supporting all the edge cases inherent in my business made it very worthwhile to build my own such tool. But then, I guess there are many other entrepreneurs out there who don't ha…

This helps with routine tasks like CRM, time tracking, and invoicing. I doubt many companies have their competitive advantage in these domains!

Like you say, it's an alternative to ad-hoc workflows using spreadsheets, etc. and it looks like really nice alternative.

Re: Show HN: Depot

#20

Post by tempestn »

FYI, the styling of the Features page (and possibly others) has some problems in Firefox, at least for me. While the inspector claims the font is Tungsten 4r, what I'm seeing actually looks a lot like Times New Roman. Looks like that difference is causing a bunch of headings to be pushed under the icons and such things.

Edit: Hmm, restarting with add-ons disabled fixed it, so presumably the problem is on my end. Will see if I can track down the culprit.

Post reply on HN