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Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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This is an interesting concept. Why the focus on a mobile app, as opposed to email or web? Is there something about the interaction that's better done via mobile device? I feel like the site is light on details about how it actually works, but I'm intrigued.

"Why the focus on a mobile app"

I would imagine mobile suits this very well because reactions and praise are immediate and device in always in your hand no matter where your physical presence is (you may not be near a laptop or desktop).

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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post #11

This is an interesting concept. Why the focus on a mobile app, as opposed to email or web? Is there something about the interaction that's better done via mobile device? I feel like the site is light on details about how it actually works, but I'm intrigued.

We're looking to trigger feedback when it's still fresh in the users' minds (i.e, after you just left a meeting), thus the focus on mobile; but we put a lot of effort into our web-app as well, and see that some users prefer to use only that.

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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post #13
post #11

This is an interesting concept. Why the focus on a mobile app, as opposed to email or web? Is there something about the interaction that's better done via mobile device? I feel like the site is light on details about how it actually works, but I'm intrigued.

We're looking to trigger feedback when it's still fresh in the users' minds (i.e, after you just left a meeting), thus the focus on mobile; but we put a lot of effort into our web-app as well, and see that some users prefer to use only that.

Feedback:

You have to get many more screen shots showing actual use on your website. I'm not seeing any. Hard to say much w/o seeing that. Can't even pass it along to anyone who I might think is interested without more of that.

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google cloud endpoints

Google Cloud Endpoints supports iOS, and I'm not even sure if Impraise is using Cloud Endpoints. Pinging impraise.com shows that they're using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk for at least their web app.

That's indeed what we're using, we built everything internally, including our mobile API.

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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post #15
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're looking to trigger feedback when it's still fresh in the users' minds (i.e, after you just left a meeting), thus the focus on mobile; but we put a lot of effort into our web-app as well, and see that some users prefer to use only that.

Feedback: You have to get many more screen shots showing actual use on your website. I'm not seeing any. Hard to say much w/o seeing that. Can't even pass it along to anyone who I might think is interested without more of that.

Thanks for the feedback, we're definitely going to add some more screenshots. In the mean time we've updated our landing page with a short introduction video (which was also already posted in the comments here).

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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post #13
post #11

This is an interesting concept. Why the focus on a mobile app, as opposed to email or web? Is there something about the interaction that's better done via mobile device? I feel like the site is light on details about how it actually works, but I'm intrigued.

We're looking to trigger feedback when it's still fresh in the users' minds (i.e, after you just left a meeting), thus the focus on mobile; but we put a lot of effort into our web-app as well, and see that some users prefer to use only that.

Is the app synced with the user's calendar, to know when the meeting ends? That would be useful.

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

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I think the focus on immediate, actionable feedback is great, but I get really nervous when I see screenshots with graphs. Does peer to peer feedback happen often enough to merit such an analytical approach? Getting continuous feedback is a great goal, but it strikes me as a human (or process) problem, not a technical one.

Re: Show HN: Impraise – Easy continuous feedback at work (YC S14)

#20
I feel like this is a technical solution for a bigger people problem: managers not communicating effectively with their subordinates.

Soon you won't ever have to talk to your boss! Thanks computers!

That being said, I think this is a good product to sell to companies that choose to ignore the real "problem".

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