Checkout ZipBoard. They have pioneered this.
https://zipboard.co/
Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#52I built conoteapp.com, it's designed for highlighting text and adding comments rather than specific HTML elements but it fits the bill for being shareable as you don't need to download anything. Drop me a message if you want any help!
This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message.
The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces.
I could get by with highlighting text of course, but I think it would be more attractive to have an icon as highlights all over the place would be a bit ugly.
Thoughts? (You, or anyone who know a way to accomplish this?)
Also, are you paid or free, and what are the odds of this still being a product 5 years from now?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#53https://app.punchlist.com does exactly this.
For full transparency, I work at Punchlist.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#54I built conoteapp.com, it's designed for highlighting text and adding comments rather than specific HTML elements but it fits the bill for being shareable as you don't need to download anything. Drop me a message if you want any help!
This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message. The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces. I could get by with highlighting text of course,…
Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator.
How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case?
The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good.
Thanks for your feedback.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#55I built https://www.kontxt.io for this. You can @mention in comments to send emails with deep-links like this:
https://www.kontxt.io/demo.html?kontxt_context_id=tJQebzVav-...
There's also google-doc like sharing controls. And it's connected to a CMS with folders and groups so it's easy to stay organized and up to date.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#56I cofounded FeaturePeek, where we built a tool to solve this problem. It syncs comments and screenshots to the GitHub/GitLab pull request, so teammates can leave feedback during the development cycle, when devs prefer. We were acquired by Netlify in 2021, and now it’s built in to their Deploy Previews product, available on every pricing tier.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#57When my cofounder Irtefa and I were PMs at Cloudflare we actually searched for a tool like this and when we couldn’t find one we liked, we went out to build it ourselves. Our first attempt was a product that let product teams leave feedback as annotations tied to DOM elements, but what we learned is that product teams have a hard time trusting those comments as the underlying DOM does change (screen & viewport size,…
Unfortunately I don't think it's ready yet for serious work. Just so many bugs in the product and didn't feel right for an organization. Felt more like a toy app.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This looks so close to what I am looking for, however I wonder if you have the one feature that I would like: rather than highlighting text in a page, I would like the ability to inject an icon that a user clicks in order to get a pop-up help message. The intent of this is to write custom user help to inject into incomprehensible Enterprise application user interfaces. I could get by with highlighting text of course,…
Great news. I have been thinking of various ways to make the paid plan more attractive to people and was looking at interactive elements like tooltips and buttons as a potential differentiator. How much would you be willing to pay to add tooltips and buttons for your use case? The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the mom…
> The app is free forever with a paid tier that adds some functionality but I'm mostly focusing on user aquisition with the free tier at the moment. I'd say the likelihood of the project being around in 5 years is high as it costs me very little to run and I'm happy to run it at a loss as a public good.
Well, that's kinda the bad thing...I'd gladly pay $5/month or whatever because I use this crap software every day, but trying to sell this to clients (what's this, this multi-million software we just bought now also needs an extra $5/user to get actually useful context-sensitive help!!!??) would be "a bad look".
Alternatively, perhaps my employer could buy a perpetual license per client or something and bundle it in, except they give 0 shits about customer satisfaction (it is the norm in the industry).
Realistically, someone who had the slightest clue about javascript (not me!) could probably figure out how to write a few lines of javascript to inject all this according to a single configuration file somewhere, but in the meantime (likely forever) I'd love to find some tool that can do it.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#59Check out Livecycle (https://livecycle.io/). I'm part of the team there and it sounds like it could be the tool you're looking for, since our aim is to make the review process more organized, clear and collaborative for front-end teams.
The platform lets teams collaborate on top of PR preview environments where all relevant stakeholders can comment with text, screenshots, video captures, and by easily editing HTML/CSS elements, as you mentioned you wanted to do.
All review comments are organized in the Livecycle playground (with relevant notifications for playground collaborators) and also synced back to Git where developers can see them in full context.
So using Livecycle, your team will be able to clearly collect UI/UX feedback from everyone, and avoid unnecessary tickets and emails. The whole process becomes transparent and collaborative (for both technical and non-technical stakeholders).
It takes just a few minutes to set up, and at no cost. We're available and happy to help and answer any questions and also to tell you about our upcoming rollout of an SDK...
Re: Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements?
#60Check out Livecycle ( https://livecycle.io/ ). I'm part of the team there and it sounds like it could be the tool you're looking for, since our aim is to make the review process more organized, clear and collaborative for front-end teams. The platform lets teams collaborate on top of PR preview environments where all relevant stakeholders can comment with text, screenshots, video captures, and by easily editing HTML/…
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