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How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by davidkpiano »

kgoedecke wrote: post #19
pen2l wrote: post #10

Your site is quite nice and responsive, made me think of Stripe's interface. May I ask what frontend you've built this on? Or really any details of your process of frontend rebuild you'd like to share? The French-speaking populace can take jokes like this, so you're safe. :)

Heya, we've build the site in NextJS using FelaJS and xState. I really can't recommend xState, but we're really happy with NextJS and Vercel in general. Our designer works in Figma and thats were we build the designs first.

Hey, XState creator here. What did you not like about XState? Hopefully there are areas we can improve on or questions we can answer. Or maybe it wasn't appropriate for the project?

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by latexr »

kgoedecke wrote: post #16
qiller wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard agree. I like the converter idea, but having used similar tools in the past (Avocode and others), there are always some kind of minor but annoying issues. Having a preview or a trial would be good to have to avoid surprises later.

Appreciate the honest feedback. We get that a lot actually, if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Our converter literally almost everything, prototyping, components and what not. Maybe we should add a free trial tho.

> We get that a lot actually

Now think of all the people who never tell you and just move on. They don’t get to use a useful tool and you don’t get the customer. Lose-lose.

> if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you.

Which costs you money via the time spent on support.

> Maybe we should add a free trial tho.

From your grandparent comment, it seems you offer different prices based on the number of artboards. Maybe the trial is instead a free tier which only works on files up to X MB in size with at most Y artboards.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by qalmakka »

This is indeed hilarious. Even for an Italian ear it kinda sounds like that.

I hope that in Spanish or Portuguese it doesn't evoke that kind of feeling too, but I am afraid it probably does.

You probably made your product very hilarious (and probably hard to sell) for the entirety of the Romance-speaking market...

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by eurasiantiger »

latexr wrote: post #22
kgoedecke wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appreciate the honest feedback. We get that a lot actually, if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Our converter literally almost everything, prototyping, components and what not. Maybe we should add a free trial tho.

> We get that a lot actually Now think of all the people who never tell you and just move on. They don’t get to use a useful tool and you don’t get the customer. Lose-lose. > if you reach out to our customer support team we can convert a small file for free for you. Which costs you money via the time spent on support. > Maybe we should add a free trial tho. From your grandparent comment, it seems you offer different…

But then you can’t test the conversion on realistic ”production” files, and you may miss something. Better not limit features, only amount of files and speed of conversion (the queue / progress bar is a good place to remind free users of the fact.)

This also nets the company lots of good karma by letting many others out of one-off binds where they are stuck with a file they cannot open.

Getting the company name out there as a dependable savior will make your brand stand out in casual conversations.

Then it will be an easy sell to agencies that actually use these kinds of products and are willing to pay for them.

However, don’t try to upsell from the free tier, and don’t make it annoying to use. It will make people avoid the free service. You want users to tell others of the great service that saved their bum just before the looming deadline.

And with that particular name, the company could even base its marketing on literally that.

Re: How we renamed our Design Converter to Magical Ass

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #27
jrm4 wrote: post #14

Ha, I'm an American who's reasonably proficient in Spanish and my brain did quickly see "Magic Culo."

The term cul-de-sac is not that uncommon in American English, given the amount of suburbs having them.

Really wondering about the origin of that phrase. The literal translation is "ass of bag"?
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