CoffeeStrap HN

#1

Post by mahesh_rm » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 3:30 PM UTC

CoffeeStrap HN
boards.coffeestrap.com

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#2

Post by JamesCasanova » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 3:42 PM UTC

Cools stuff, it seems like you guys made quite a jump from the previous version of the platform! Looks cooler now. How do you handle the video chat? Local plugin or external service?

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#3

Post by alemhnan » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

JamesCasanova wrote: post #2

Cools stuff, it seems like you guys made quite a jump from the previous version of the platform! Looks cooler now. How do you handle the video chat? Local plugin or external service?

Hey thanks! We are pouring a lot of efforts, we are improving day after day! The video chat is on a isolate instance of heroku. We used a nodejs app with webrtc stuff!

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#4

Post by lhnz » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

You really need to improve the design of that website.

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#5

Post by michaelwww » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

lhnz wrote: post #4

You really need to improve the design of that website.

I like the design. What do you see as problems?

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#6

Post by mahesh_rm » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

lhnz wrote: post #4

You really need to improve the design of that website.

We are working on it, any ideas on how to improve navigation? :-)

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#7

Post by busterarm » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:04 PM UTC

Maybe I'll get lucky and there'll be some folks willing to teach me Danish. There are surprisingly few good options for learning it in the US.

I like Duolingo's approach, but they don't have the languages I want available (except German).

Edit: Bummer. No Danish. :(

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#8

Post by benburleson » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

The name and first sentence on your site made me think this was satire.

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#9

Post by daschy » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

Are you planning to partner with other universities in Italy only or you want to spread this idea across europe either?

Re: CoffeeStrap HN

#10

Post by nicolethenerd » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

michaelwww wrote: post #5

lhnz wrote: post #4

You really need to improve the design of that website.

I like the design. What do you see as problems?

First thing that jumped out at me was the "Try CoffeeStrap" button at the bottom isn't obviously a button - of course, the text gives it away if you're reading carefully, but if you're just skimming the site, it's easy to miss entirely.

Also, the grey on grey text (like for the "What is this?" header) could be improved, and while not a design issue, I would've liked to see a bit about why you called it CoffeeStrap - seems like a weird name for a service like this - brings to mind a Bootstrap tool for CoffeeScript - never would've expected it to be a language-learning tool.