Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#1

Post by csallen » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 1:58 AM UTC

Our product (https://www.siasto.com) is a project management tool. It competes with Basecamp, and focuses on integrations with other web apps.

We recently revamped our homepage + added an intro tutorial, so it'd be great to get feedback from you guys. What do you think of the signup process? What about the product, UI, and features? Do they make sense? Did you run into any bugs? etc

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#2

Post by diggan » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

Looks very nice. Previously, I've used Trello but this feels more streamlined. However, keyboard shortcuts! You must have shortcuts to do different things.

Also, I don't want to invite any teammates like the tutorial says, you should be able to skip that one. Especially when there is no way to stop the tutorial.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#3

Post by csallen » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:10 AM UTC

diggan wrote: post #2

Looks very nice. Previously, I've used Trello but this feels more streamlined. However, keyboard shortcuts! You must have shortcuts to do different things. Also, I don't want to invite any teammates like the tutorial says, you should be able to skip that one. Especially when there is no way to stop the tutorial.

Thanks for the feedback! We've got some limited shortcuts in the tasks and docs view, but nowhere else yet. We'll definitely put up a blog post once they're everywhere.

Good point about the last step of the tutorial. I'll change that right now.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#4

Post by diggan » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:17 AM UTC

csallen wrote: post #3

diggan wrote: post #2

Looks very nice. Previously, I've used Trello but this feels more streamlined. However, keyboard shortcuts! You must have shortcuts to do different things. Also, I don't want to invite any teammates like the tutorial says, you should be able to skip that one. Especially when there is no way to stop the tutorial.

Thanks for the feedback! We've got some limited shortcuts in the tasks and docs view, but nowhere else yet. We'll definitely put up a blog post once they're everywhere. Good point about the last step of the tutorial. I'll change that right now.

Hmm, can't find the link to your blog anywhere on your website... Maybe you should add that also.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#5

Post by Alex3917 » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:37 AM UTC

As a general rule of thumb, I don't sign up for anything like this unless I can see screenshots or a video first. I know there are some on your blog, but they really need to be linked from the front page.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#6

Post by edude03 » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:38 AM UTC

Hey thanks for posting this, I just signed up and noticed two things:

1) If you guys allow signup / login with google why isn't there a sigin with google button right on the homepage /signup section? would have prefered that to entering my username and password and most people have a google account anyway.

2) There needs to be a way to exit tutorial mode, maybe it's there already but if it is, it's not obvious enough.

Otherwise I'm loving the design and ease of use.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#7

Post by blakeperdue » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:39 AM UTC

Love the design. Clean, interesting and informing. One thing I would suggest is add a screenshot of the product somewhere. I find that seeing the product helps really draw me in and want to sign up.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#8

Post by theandym » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:41 AM UTC

Clickable: https://www.siasto.com

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I like the single page intro, but feel it could contain a little more information on the feature set. I agree with blakeperdue that a screenshot would help as well. The signup process is super simple, which is a big plus and makes it trivial to get started / explore the product.

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#9

Post by rpicard » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:47 AM UTC

The "learn more" link doesn't do anything for me on Chrome (works in Firefox).

Re: Ask HN: Help test our new signup process

#10

Post by csallen » Wed, Apr 04, 2012, 2:49 AM UTC

edude03 wrote: post #6

Hey thanks for posting this, I just signed up and noticed two things: 1) If you guys allow signup / login with google why isn't there a sigin with google button right on the homepage /signup section? would have prefered that to entering my username and password and most people have a google account anyway. 2) There needs to be a way to exit tutorial mode, maybe it's there already but if it is, it's not obvious enough…

Yep, we definitely need to make it possible to sign up with Google. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. Working on the tutorial exit right now, but in the meantime you can just invite a fake email address ;-)