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Re: Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

#11
Is there a target set of customers for this product?

It seems well developed (minus the bugs folks are reporting), but I'm not entirely sure why I would use this instead of a normal document.

The ability to move things around in this format seems somewhat useful, but not particularly useful for any workflow I engage in.

When I create docs for work, I want to tell a story that is quite linear. When I want to tell concepts of hierarchies, I'll make a chart and then paste in the document.

I could see people perhaps storyboarding with this? Creatives?

I would encourage you to find all the types of people who are using this organically and segment the customers, then engage in a vigorous set of interviews on how they'd like to see it improved.

Some of the product decisions, too, seem quite strange. For example, why is commenting something that I have to drag onto the page as well? Why is that not integrated into each box with a click? Or why is that not generic to each board -- 1 chat room per board? These features would ideally be developed with specific customers in mind who say "I want it to work this way!"

This is one of those products that starts off "looking like a toy" but might actually become super useful down the road as it evolves. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

#12
post #6

my $0.02: I would make the section "A Flexible Workspace for Everyone" the 1st main section, didn't really get what the product was until the 2nd and 3rd sections (the first one now just has generic blocks) Tried out the demo: - couldn't write in text blocks (chrome 79/mac) - drawing went above cursor - fullscreen / new page would be better

Ah! Thank you so much for the feedback, it is indeed a problem with the iframe - we will work out the bugs :)

Re: Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

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post #11

Is there a target set of customers for this product? It seems well developed (minus the bugs folks are reporting), but I'm not entirely sure why I would use this instead of a normal document. The ability to move things around in this format seems somewhat useful, but not particularly useful for any workflow I engage in. When I create docs for work, I want to tell a story that is quite linear. When I want to tell conc…

We do have a rough idea of who our target customers are but we are holding off any drastic feature developments until the numbers are more statistically meaningful! But wow, thank you so much for the constructive criticism. I will run this by my co-founder for our next iteration.

Re: Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

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post #9

No screenshots on the main page. The embedded video isn't clickable on mobile (iOS Safari). Fluffy marketing speak throughout the page. What is this exactly?

Ouch! I was not aware of the unclickable video. And ha, fluffy marketing speak! I will be the first one to admit that the landing page isn't perfect. We will probably go through a dozen more iteration until we get the message right.

Re: Show HN: Ryeboard – Visual Workspace

#16
The pricing page crashed on click and I found that its because of a js error ```document.removeEventListener(this.listener, "scroll")``` But in the next refresh there was a fix with a console.log("fix please"). :D I'm glad someone fixed the most important page of the site

P.S: It should be a static site

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