What would you think about prompting the user to sign up after they make their own tutorial (so they can save it or what have you), rather than before they start?
thats a good idea
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#92The only critique: Pricing - Coming soon => you should start charging for your product right now. You will get better feedback, you will get customers which work with you and help you improve product, etc.
Otherwise - excellent. You have a customer :)
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#93The only critique: Pricing - Coming soon => you should start charging for your product right now. You will get better feedback, you will get customers which work with you and help you improve product, etc. Otherwise - excellent. You have a customer :)
thanks. Any chance for a phone call to find out your needs?
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#94Paid version, where all the sharing features drive traffic to my site and there is no Iorad branding would be worth the upgrade I think.
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#95This is amazing, thus guaranteed to sell to one of the large screencasting/training companies quickly (good for the team!). What happens to all the free public stuff then?
Example buyout -> shutdown: http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/2010/06/screentoast...
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#96LOVE it. I always hated screen casts. I prefer creating a Word or PDF document with annotated screenshots which user can go through at their own pace. One of the idea in my idea list was to make it easy to take screenshots and annotate them and create a polished PDF. But what you have created is even better. It is highly interactive and user can follow the steps as they work on the actual application. Extremely well…
Thanks for thinking of us as a successful product! You just made our team's day (or rather, late evening) here :)
PS: this is Paras from Visual Website Optimizer.
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#97This is awesome! I hate screencasts too so I hope this tool will be adopted widely. Just the name... How should it be pronounced? Does 'iorad' mean something? (I'm Swiss German) In any case thank's a lot!
pronounced i -o- rad
While I absolutely love your app, I think the name is horribly chosen.
It's just one of these names that doesn't stick (if not prominent enough) and can't be derivated of its purpose.
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#98The instructional dialogue windows dominate the screen visually so it distracts the user from what's actually happening on the website. They won't know where to focus their eyes, and the amount of time it takes for them to orient themselves for each dialogue could make it more cumbersome than a "regular" screencast.
Similar to this, I don't think you should have the user sometimes click on the dialogue box (at the beginning) and sometimes click on others elements. I kept trying to push the mouse icon the first time I went through. Or, alternatively, you could make clicking the dialogue act the same as clicking the buttons. That way even if you do that, it works.
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#99Is there any way to make the capture window full screen or make it dragable so that it could be moved over top of the task bar for or icon tray for instance?
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed - though without the slow animations I think you might be on to something. I know a lot of people who hate video/screencasts.
we're working on that to speed it up, would you prefer a mode with no animations?
speeding up complete..let me know what you think