A lot of the text reads as though English isn't your first language. If this is true, hire a copywriter and revise your websites text.
Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture
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#32The learn more page needs to be a single page in the browser history. After I clicked through 125 of them, I wanted to get back to the home page with my back button but couldn't.
I would have liked to see 4-5 of those "people hates" and then a demo of the product in action.
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#33A lot of the text reads as though English isn't your first language. If this is true, hire a copywriter and revise your websites text.
Thx. That's true. Will do. Do you think that this is important for the minimum viable product? We're just trying to get it out ASAP and we've been pretty sloppy with the text this time. Sorry for that.
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#34Like everyone else, I couldn't find what it did, but the tour https://secure.stairwayapp.com/tour albeit brief, it fully explanatory. I think the concept is great and that this has the potential to be actually very useful.
From a product point of view, I think it should integrate with a corporate LDAP otherwise you have the catch-22 problem of any social network like system.
I really like the idea of decision based (rather than talk based) meeting goals. Rather than "let's have a meeting to talk about it" it becomes "let's have a meeting to decide X", then it becomes possible to draw time-lines of the decision making process and those involved, which hopefully leads to accountability and improved engagement.
My only criticism is that companies would want to host this. The security concerns and longevity of the data would be beyond any IT depts stress threshold. I could imagine the privacy policy causing my companies IT dept to start having panic attacks. Then again, everything's going cloud, so maybe other IT departments will be fine with it.
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#35A lot of the text reads as though English isn't your first language. If this is true, hire a copywriter and revise your websites text.
Thx. That's true. Will do. Do you think that this is important for the minimum viable product? We're just trying to get it out ASAP and we've been pretty sloppy with the text this time. Sorry for that.
Having good copy is vital to getting anyone to take your product seriously.
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#37This is a really minor gripe, but consider localizing date formats. It's confusing as US user to see 18/6/12 as the date.
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#38Like everyone else, I couldn't find what it did, but the tour https://secure.stairwayapp.com/tour albeit brief, it fully explanatory. I think the concept is great and that this has the potential to be actually very useful. From a product point of view, I think it should integrate with a corporate LDAP otherwise you have the catch-22 problem of any social network like system. I really like the idea of decision based (…
We're thinking to make it closer to smaller teams and individuals in the enterprise and then they'd take it bottom-up from there. Thanks for the awesome feedback.
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#39When I went to your domain and read the main page, I didn't understand what it did. The big call to action 'learn more' button took me to a series of points that didn't really clue me into what it was about. I thought I got it, but I wasn't sure - certainly not sure enough by the time I got dumped off at the signup page. Both the 'about' and the 'features' page told me more, but I had to click around to get to those,…
We're testing different variations of the pitch. We find it really hard to pitch features and functionality to business/management people, so we have a few variations running that are pitching only benefits or pains, but no exact functionality. For the features tour we decided one must sign-up and try. And only then we take them trough features tour.
Don't pitch, show it. Pitches are for products that don't exist or work properly yet. Yo u have a cool product explanation with screenshots on the Features page, just add in another callout to emphasizie the due date field (in fact, I'd promote that field so it becomes clear that the deadline is of equal importance to the decision).
I HATE a pitch without screenshots. It's a waste of my time and makes me instantly skeptical of the product.
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#40Any plans for providing Android app too?