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Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#11
It's interesting. Is this a product that solves a particular problem you've found in the past? Or a product trying to find a market.

I don't wish to sound negative, it's a genuine query because I really can't think of a single instance in the past when this would have solved a problem for me, but I wonder if there's niches I've not been exposed to.

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#12
Really quick question since it looks quite similar (but might just be coincidence), did you happen to use this for the right click context menu?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20471268/938236

Just asking because it's my answer and I'd be really happy to see someone using it!

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#13
post #4

Product demo should probably be specific to your session. It's great to be able to try it. But unmoderated user content front and center on your main page doesn't work so well. ETA: More specifically, there was a lot of flashing of offensive text.

Great suggestion, we'll do so soon, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#14

Really quick question since it looks quite similar (but might just be coincidence), did you happen to use this for the right click context menu? https://stackoverflow.com/a/20471268/938236 Just asking because it's my answer and I'd be really happy to see someone using it!

No, we use our own code plus some triangulation to predict user's mouse direction so that the menu will not hide if we detect a user heading that direction. Your answer is great by the way.

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#15
post #11

It's interesting. Is this a product that solves a particular problem you've found in the past? Or a product trying to find a market. I don't wish to sound negative, it's a genuine query because I really can't think of a single instance in the past when this would have solved a problem for me, but I wonder if there's niches I've not been exposed to.

This is a product that we are trying to solve a particular problem we are facing. How do we easily create amazing diagrams that is accurate and share them easily with our customers. How do we collaborate with others and be able to easily show what we meant. How do we built automation on top of it, so that it will help us count things, generate reports, etc. etc. So there, this is actually a first step where we have a few more things we wanna do down the line.

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#16
Great app, thanks for building this - I plan on using this with my team at work immediately.

The only problem I had with the app was during registration. I decided to use my Google account to register, and upon successful redirect back to the app via OAuth callback, I was prompted to click a button to create a new user account instead of being logged into the app.

I found this confusing because I expected the step of generating my user account to be automated in the OAuth callback. There was also a heading on the page that was something like 'No Account Found', which added to my confusion as the OAuth process was supposed to (I expected, at least) create the account record.

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#17
post #16

Great app, thanks for building this - I plan on using this with my team at work immediately. The only problem I had with the app was during registration. I decided to use my Google account to register, and upon successful redirect back to the app via OAuth callback, I was prompted to click a button to create a new user account instead of being logged into the app. I found this confusing because I expected the step of…

Thanks a million, will double check on the flow to ensure no confusion and smooth flow. TQ!

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#18
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No pricing, doesn't appear to be open source, so why would I rely on this? Too many SaaS apps go the way of the dodo these days - if I can't run it myself it's going to be a hard sell, and if you can't make a case that you're profitable, I'm not gonna take a risk on your flash in the pan project.

Same comment. The first thing I do is look for pricing. If I cannot find it or it was clearly made hard to find, I move on. Looks like a neat tool, but I'm not bothering to make an account.

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#19
post #4

Product demo should probably be specific to your session. It's great to be able to try it. But unmoderated user content front and center on your main page doesn't work so well. ETA: More specifically, there was a lot of flashing of offensive text.

> Product demo should probably be specific to your session.

i agree, make it a per-user demo. THere's so much in the demo document on the front page that it lags and prevents scrolling...

Re: Show HN: Vecta.io - Team diagramming with an advanced SVG editor

#20
Great job on this. One thing I'd do is replace the demo on the homepage with a video and a link to a demo. Why?

The demo slows down the web page, especially on mobile. So put it behind a deliberate action. That way you can also make the demo full screen instead of rendering it 75% of its normal size.

Edit: That way it's also clearer that when someone is using the demo to post swear words, like what is happening now, it isn't on your main page.

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