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Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by k33n »

raheemm wrote: post #40
adamhowell wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I made sure to put "With Mocksup you can upload website mockups" in the subhead on the homepage, and was hoping the Examples page would help alleviate that a little bit. But I know no one reads marketing copy. Good feedback, I'll keep tweaking that.

Do you plan to add a mockupping tool? If not, perhaps you can call your site "make your mockups live" or protomockup.com (available) or "quickly prototype your mockups", etc. I really like the design - it was easy to navigate and find stuff. But I had a hard time finding the signup button. Mockups and Mocksup is a confusing read.

I think Mocksup is a great name. Mocks up. As in, upload your mockups. That's what I got from it anyway.

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by adamhowell »

jaspervdj wrote: post #39

Something wrong with the font size/line height here. Browser is epiphany 2.30.2 using webkit 1.2.1. http://i.imgur.com/rK3gD.png

Thanks for taking the screenshot. I honestly didn't even know there was a browse called Epiphany. I'll see if I can tweak that.

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by adamhowell »

freshfey wrote: post #24

Really cool project and a great design! I would limit the free version a little more though (just 5 mockups, no iPhone support) to make the premium features more compelling!

Good point. Our mobile support is brand new so once we see how users react to it we'll probably refactor our plans.

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by brandon »

bemmu wrote: post #4

I signed up and was surprised to learn that all the mockups would need to be created in an outside program. I guess that serves a purpose too, to be able to create a clickable thing to show your colleagues, but it wasn't immediately clear to me that an actual mockupping tool isn't included.

I made the same mistake; I suppose I shouldn't have expected wireframing when it's not explicitly called out anywhere.

An additional note, though: your upgrade page doesn't render correctly when I click through to it via the account page (was looking for a Delete Account button).

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by adamhowell »

brandon wrote: post #44
bemmu wrote: post #4

I signed up and was surprised to learn that all the mockups would need to be created in an outside program. I guess that serves a purpose too, to be able to create a clickable thing to show your colleagues, but it wasn't immediately clear to me that an actual mockupping tool isn't included.

I made the same mistake; I suppose I shouldn't have expected wireframing when it's not explicitly called out anywhere. An additional note, though: your upgrade page doesn't render correctly when I click through to it via the account page (was looking for a Delete Account button).

That page definitely slipped through the cracks, I'll fix that, thanks.

We don't have an automatic way to delete accounts yet, could you send us a note here and I'll make sure it gets taken care of:

http://help.mocksup.com/support/

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by terrellm »

Nice site and interesting app. It seems like more of a mockup organization system than a tool for creating mockups (like Balsamiq or Mockingbird), which was my initial thought looking at the name. Perhaps you can interface with them somehow?

I'm not big on the product name though as my first thought was "oh cool mockups" which then turned to "oh wait it's a typo / misspelling of mockups". It's further confusing because you spell "mockups" correctly throughout your site. You also run the risk of a competitor buying mockups.com and building their own mockup software (logical development option).

You've put together a great tool and well designed site, don't sell it short with a typo'ed product name.

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by dharma1 »

Tell you what I've always wanted.. You know the awesome Skype screen sharing function? Imagine everyone in on the call being able to draw and write on top of the live screenshare.

It'd be a great way to annotate/draw on top of designs live, while simultaneously talking about them with remote participants

Re: Show HN: Mocksup, my mockup prototyping & review webapp

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Post by keefe »

bemmu wrote: post #4

I signed up and was surprised to learn that all the mockups would need to be created in an outside program. I guess that serves a purpose too, to be able to create a clickable thing to show your colleagues, but it wasn't immediately clear to me that an actual mockupping tool isn't included.

lol wait, what? I thought there was a wireframing tool included and I still didn't get that far...

I think the home is a bit cluttered, I spent I'd say 5 minutes on the site without a clear idea of what it was doing exactly. A video would have helped...

It's really hard for me to see the benefit of spending $9/mo to upload HTML I already created vs just dumping it on a server and discussing via email.

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