Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#51

Post by some1else » Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

Meetings may be more efficient when strict policies are enforced, but I think some forgiveness could be provided by allowing the user to edit/sort Agenda items after the meeting has been created.

The common use case right now is time-shifted decision making, but this would kick ass if it were real-time.

Good job with the design. Nice legible type, unambiguous form layout. I think the landing page could bring forward some content from the Learn More and Features subpages.

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#52

Post by prawn » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 12:21 AM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #16

Daddy?

I would find a way to replace the word "daddy" ASAP in your copy. There'd have to be better options out there.

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#53

Post by tadruj » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 1:08 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #52

marknutter wrote: post #16

Daddy?

I would find a way to replace the word "daddy" ASAP in your copy. There'd have to be better options out there.

Done. There are. But which ones do resonate with people, that's the big question. This one did mighty good actually, quantitatively speaking. But qualitatively looking at this option I agree with you, the term is pretty edgy.

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#54

Post by fusiongyro » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 1:10 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #8

jaaron wrote: post #4

What sort of pricing plan is this? The per-user expense _increases_ as you buy more seats? https://secure.stairwayapp.com/plans

I guess they figured their utility increases as the meeting grows. It's not like you can segregate people into two meetings and get out of that, either.

Increasing the marginal cost discourages adding users. You punish people for having a lot of users, which creates a pain point, which creates an exploitable opportunity for your competition.

Better to charge a flat rate per user, or follow the 37 Signals example and not charge per user at all.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/jason-fried/huge-accounts...

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#55

Post by ScottBurson » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 1:32 AM UTC

cdcarter wrote: post #37

This is a really minor gripe, but consider localizing date formats. It's confusing as US user to see 18/6/12 as the date.

Better yet, stick to ISO date format: 2012-6-18

Everyone can tell what that means.

Re: Show HN: Stairway, daddy that will enforce some online meeting culture

#56

Post by zaptheimpaler » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 1:53 AM UTC

mihar wrote: post #18

polyfractal wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wanted to emphasize this point - I did the exact same thing. I read through the "Learn More" bullets and thought "hmm, this sounds interesting and useful...but I still really have no idea what it does". It wasn't until I read the About and Features that I actually understood the product. The benefits listed in the "Learn More" are really good...you just need to add a little more concrete information about the product…

Very valuable feedback! We are experimenting with different kinds of learn more tours and explainers. Glad that in the end you got it.

I loved the "people hate"..."stairway solves" structure. Great way of putting across the problem and the solution clearly and succinctly. Just my two cents.