Four Words: I Shipped. Feedback Please

Four Words: I Shipped. Feedback Please
compversions.com

I haven't quite found a hosted solution to this particular problem. There are many web apps, and desktop apps, that allow you to add comments and annotations to images and do project management that way - but I haven't found one that combines that with the management of multiple versions.

I am willing to be proven wrong though, so if anyone has any counter examples, please pass them along :)

1) The small icon bar below the tagline frustrated me because clicking on the icons just tells me that the feature will be active when the app launches. I would recommend not displaying a feature that you aren't ready to demo.

2) The arrow keys do not work. I'm using the latest version of Safari on Mac. Clicking the arrow icons manually does work however. Also, consider making the image carousel seamless, rather than ending abruptly. I clicked the right icon several times, wondering why it didn't continue scrolling right before I realized I was at the end. A seamless carousel usually makes for a slightly better user experience.

3) The footer text would look better if it was white text on the darker background of the notification sign up form. Currently it makes the page look broken because there is gray below the form.

4) I would consider putting a border below the tagline, like the border above it. Just an aesthetic preference on my part, so feel free to ignore me.

Also, I wonder about your definition of "shipped". Compversions doesn't look ready to use yet. Anyway, keep up the good work.

The main thing I see though, is that the front page needs a LOT more explaining to do. I thought that I was looking at some tool that detected subtle differences between photos, and couldn't grasp the significance of the picture variations thinking that there was some code to the squares and circles.

Some copy should easily fix that.

Other miscellaneous comments that aren't nearly so important (to me): - if you've shipped, then why do the links say 'will be active at launch'? Didn't you launch? - I'd probably left align the logo, and maybe the text. I don't know that I'd left align it all the way over, but to where the left margin would be on a 960 grid feels right to me. - I quite like the logo, but I hate the font in the teaser.

This tool doesn't serve me, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but overall I think it's a fairly solid offering in general. I can definitely see it being useful.