Really love this concept, awesome job guys. Do you think marketing and growth teams will use to surface ideas for copy and layout changes? I could definitely see a future feature that let teams vote too -- would be super valuable for growth teams that are moving fast.
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Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#32My clients (VPs of Marketing and CEOs) would never provide feedback in a tool like this.
It's Email or a phone call every time because they don't have the time it desire to learn a new tool for what to them is a one off design project.
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#33My clients (VPs of Marketing and CEOs) would never provide feedback in a tool like this. It's Email or a phone call every time because they don't have the time it desire to learn a new tool for what to them is a one off design project.
Mine will never ever. But maybe if it becomes as popular as email or excel. Ahh, the life of a giga corporate cog.
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#34Great to see Toybox getting some attention. While I'm still not convinced that BSD-0 is the best license, it certainly encourages innovation in the space.
Wait, you're not Robert Landley!
Naming stuff: one of the hard problems of computer science.
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#35My clients (VPs of Marketing and CEOs) would never provide feedback in a tool like this. It's Email or a phone call every time because they don't have the time it desire to learn a new tool for what to them is a one off design project.
Totally hear you there. Thanks for the feedback!
We've seen freelancers and agencies record feedback themselves while on the phone with their clients but appreciate your honesty - super helpful for us.
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#36Really love this concept, awesome job guys. Do you think marketing and growth teams will use to surface ideas for copy and layout changes? I could definitely see a future feature that let teams vote too -- would be super valuable for growth teams that are moving fast.
We've started seeing some Marketing/Growth teams use the product to communicate copy changes etc. so we're interested in how else we can provide value there.
Love the idea of upvoting edits. Will definitely test that out more :)
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#37I find this interesting, but feel like there should be a "less developer" focused version for non-dev communication. IE: Product manager, stakeholder, etc. Give them an easier way to annotate parts of the page with notes, versus the current way: screenshots and highlighting things with paint, powerpoint, etc Edit: I see the screenshot view is sorta closer to what I am getting at. Either way, sounds like you guys are…
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Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#38I thought I'd check the demo site, but it's spinning the loading animation for more than a couple of minutes now. Perhaps there's a big traffic spike with the launch news. I'll check it out some other time if I remember.* But this is one of the most important things to address quickly.
* Don't trust users to remember and go back to a site that seemed interesting but wasn't working or loading.
Re: Launch HN: Toybox (YC S18) – Communicate changes to sites without writing code
#39Your hn demo is super interesting. It would be cool to see designers fix popular websites ( cough reddit) and then be able to release those changes to the public.
This would be super cool. Could even do community-based upvoting on what a leading website should look like. Curious as to how the legal end would work re: IP. If you have 1,000 people redesigning Reddit and publishing it for all to see, there's bound to be some serious design overlap (whether intentional or not) when said company eventually goes through a redesign.
My thoughts were that you give the website owner free/full access to the redesign and engagements stats for users on the redesign. If users are more engaged and the company earns more ad revenue from the redesign.. maybe they can just implement it?