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Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

#11

Post by witten »

vaksel wrote: post #10
witten wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was sort of going by standard practice among other startups.. They all seem to be very up-front about their pricing and rate plans. Do you think that this is in general a bad idea, or do you think with my product in particular, it would be better to go with the "Sign up for your free account today" approach? If so, why? Also, by the way, my conversion rate to free accounts is around 26% according to Analytics. (Thi…

Well you will still be upfront about your fees, I'm only talking about changing the actual link text, so that the users will be more likely to click it, since everyone likes free stuff.

Oh okay.. Understood.

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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Post by witten »

rdj wrote: post #12

Not really feedback, but a matter of attention-to-detail: Do you have one too many '%' in your document.write(...google analytics) code? It throws a visible '%' at the very bottom of your page.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I think I got a little over-zealous in escaping my %s.

Interestingly, in Python, "%%%s" % "foo" != "%%foo"

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

#14

Post by maxklein »

Dunno man. I won't bother using it because I feel like you may change the price in the future. There are no guarantees, particularly since I know it's just a guy with a mac running this thing. I don't want to store stuff in there and then one day it's gone...

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

#15

Post by rickd »

I like it a lot, nice job. Definitely reminds me of TiddlyWiki.

My main criticism is that there should be an explicit "save" button or link for notes. Perhaps it could be similar to the gmail "save draft" button, in that autosaves would disable or "gray out" the save button (nothing more to save). I think not having a specific Save button will confuse "average" users who have been trained to "Save Often!"

Other than that, I think it would also be good to be able to hide or "minimize" the vertical menu on the left (+,link,...) because I actually find it quite distracting. I feel like it breaks the flow from menu item to note- maybe moving it to the right might be good as another option.

Overall, quick to set up and easy to use- so those are winners! Nice work :)

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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Post by witten »

rickd wrote: post #15

I like it a lot, nice job. Definitely reminds me of TiddlyWiki. My main criticism is that there should be an explicit "save" button or link for notes. Perhaps it could be similar to the gmail "save draft" button, in that autosaves would disable or "gray out" the save button (nothing more to save). I think not having a specific Save button will confuse "average" users who have been trained to "Save Often!" Other than…

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I've been avoiding a "save" button because saves are implicit, but I think for the reasons you point out, I really should add one anyway.

You can hide all the crap on the left (except the toolbar) by clicking the "nothing but notes" link on the right side of the page. Maybe I should make that clearer. And maybe I should have it hide the toolbar as well. Is there anything I could do to the toolbar to make it less distracting?

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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Post by witten »

maxklein wrote: post #14

Dunno man. I won't bother using it because I feel like you may change the price in the future. There are no guarantees, particularly since I know it's just a guy with a mac running this thing. I don't want to store stuff in there and then one day it's gone...

I don't know where you got the idea about "a guy with a Mac'. I'm on a ThinkPad running Debian, and the servers are Debian as well. :)

I should point out that while your concern may be legitimate, you can download your entire wiki as HTML whenever you want. So if for whatever reason you don't like the service at some point, there's no lock-in.

If there's another download format that would make you feel more comfortable, please do let me know.

Re: Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request

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Post by rw »

witten wrote: post #17
maxklein wrote: post #14

Dunno man. I won't bother using it because I feel like you may change the price in the future. There are no guarantees, particularly since I know it's just a guy with a mac running this thing. I don't want to store stuff in there and then one day it's gone...

I don't know where you got the idea about "a guy with a Mac'. I'm on a ThinkPad running Debian, and the servers are Debian as well. :) I should point out that while your concern may be legitimate, you can download your entire wiki as HTML whenever you want. So if for whatever reason you don't like the service at some point, there's no lock-in. If there's another download format that would make you feel more comfortab…

To stoke the flamefire: you know Debian hasn't had the most stellar security reputation as of late, right? :)
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