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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 Vistico »

It looks great alot seems to be in place and it's obviously well thought out. The two things I would consider is maybe re-wording the header, I think the objective of that was to fill up the empty space with bigger words, and then have the smaller text as a description. It seems most of the big text is just fluff I think you so reword it to include a quick pitch of what it can do via iphone/website/logo mockup-wise.

Furthermore maybe the process to go signup could be one click faster if here was a signup button on the home page.. instead of a "login button/ see pricing plans button" I mean the pricing plan button works as a sign up it just doesn't say so.. maybe that is just me I clicked the login button at the top right since usually the login/signup is at the top right.

Good luck with this project!

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

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Post by bombs »

michael_dorfman wrote: post #10
paraschopra wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't undercut your competition on price. I remember a quote by Tony Wright (of RescueTime) where he said that "Getting traffic on and off is okay but for a business to survive, it needs a predictable source of potential customers and leads". If you are selling your service for $19/month, you will be forced to keep your cost of acquiring new customers less than that. Which of course means less budget for marke…

I agree completely. I was thinking $49/month would be the sweet spot, but that's without any real analysis.

It's a lot easier to reduce the price than to raise it!

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

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Post by adamhowell »

paraschopra wrote: post #8
adamhowell wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, we released a huge update yesterday and are just now getting to the point where we have enough features to make the unlimited plan compelling. We undercut our competition by a good amount, so we've certainly been talking about it.

Please don't undercut your competition on price. I remember a quote by Tony Wright (of RescueTime) where he said that "Getting traffic on and off is okay but for a business to survive, it needs a predictable source of potential customers and leads". If you are selling your service for $19/month, you will be forced to keep your cost of acquiring new customers less than that. Which of course means less budget for marke…

Great points. But, of course, the other side of that is you charge too much for a product out the gate that no one's willing to pay for, there's no hype at all and you lose the motivation necessary to make it worth paying for.

Then again, I'm really glad Mocksup appears to be worth this discussion. Since this is a side-project for both of us I'd much rather you guys fuss at our pricing then just about anything else!

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

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Post by brosephius »

I like the concept. it's not clear that you have to use an offline editor though, I first thought you could do the mockup work in my browser. maybe I missed this, but can you add notes to the mockups you put online, for example to guide a user through the design? I noticed an "Add note" feature in the screenshot of the editor, but it's not clear if those get copied to the online shared version.

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

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Post by adamhowell »

adrianwaj wrote: post #12

Perhaps contributors should be able to submit their mockups, that way people can discuss the different ones from different people. Otherwise, I wouldn't call them contributors, perhaps observers.

We're going to solve this problem instead with multiple admins. It's on our short list.

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

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Post by adamhowell »

brosephius wrote: post #17

I like the concept. it's not clear that you have to use an offline editor though, I first thought you could do the mockup work in my browser. maybe I missed this, but can you add notes to the mockups you put online, for example to guide a user through the design? I noticed an "Add note" feature in the screenshot of the editor, but it's not clear if those get copied to the online shared version.

Yes, notes show up on the version of the mockup you're sharing. I'll try to make that clearer, thanks.

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

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Post by city41 »

The site looks fantastic, great work. Have you looked into sketchflow? It's kinda/sorta a competitor, and kinda/sorta something you could incorporate into your site. I could see a demand for a nice, easy, secure place to host sketchflow mockups. All they require is an html page and a silverlight xap bundle. (sketchflow is bloody fantastic btw, I think it's going to make some serious inroads into how people make mock ups)
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