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Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

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Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#11

Post by ASquare »

A few questions (from an investor perspective):

1) For this to gain massive traction, a lot of people (millions) are going to have to install this

What are your plans for making that happen? In other words how will you scale this? What channels will you use? What customer acquisition costs do you anticipate?

2) Do people actually click on ads? The intent of the products is to drag/drop, be done & move on - not hang around to see ads etc. So how profitable is this channel? What other sources of revenue are you considering?

3) Who would you consider your nearest/biggest competitor? What stops them from creating features that your offering has that they may be missing?

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#12

Post by moreati »

Love the concept and the pitch sold me. Your registration needs some work, there's too many steps/bail out moments. This was the sequence.

  1. Visit http://dragd.is. Big, obvious Register with ___ buttons, excellent.
  2. Click Register with Twitter. Oh, they'll be able to add/remove followers, wasn't expecting that ... alright-ish.
  3. Click authorize. "Your Twitter account was successfully linked to Dragdis. Yey! To finish your registration please enter your email and create a password." Abort!
The point (for me) of registering with Twitter/Google/whatever is to avoid giving yet another site my email address and maintaining yet another password. You already have a shared secret with me (the twitter oauth token), you don't need a password as well. Step 3 should have been "start dragging things".

PS You've almost certainly thought of this, but http://drag.it/ would be a more obvious/memorable URL/brand

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#13

Post by dmslt »

ASquare wrote: post #11

A few questions (from an investor perspective): 1) For this to gain massive traction, a lot of people (millions) are going to have to install this What are your plans for making that happen? In other words how will you scale this? What channels will you use? What customer acquisition costs do you anticipate? 2) Do people actually click on ads? The intent of the products is to drag/drop, be done & move on - not hang a…

1. We are integrating with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other social apps, so that people could drag&drop straight to them. Every single time that happens we get publicity, because next to the content posted via Dragdis there will be a link to Dragdis.

2. Ads will not be shown on Dragdis itself for the most part. Ads will be distributed through an ad network. For example drag nike sneakers, go on TechCrunch, see ad there.

3. IFTTT. Key here is not for everybody to develop the same sidebar experience as Dragdis have, but to develop one product that will be really open and integrate with EVERYONE. If everyone will build this in their apps on they own we gonna end up having overlapping sidebars - bad experience.

If you're interested to talk more. Please write me at domas@dragdis.com

Thanks! :)

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#14

Post by dmslt »

moreati wrote: post #12

Love the concept and the pitch sold me. Your registration needs some work, there's too many steps/bail out moments. This was the sequence. 1. Visit http://dragd.is. Big, obvious Register with ___ buttons, excellent. 2. Click Register with Twitter. Oh, they'll be able to add/remove followers, wasn't expecting that ... alright-ish. 3. Click authorize. "Your Twitter account was successfully linked to Dragdis. Yey! To fi…

Thanks for your feedback! Dragged it :)

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#15

Post by tarikozket »

Awesome job dude, well done! It's just simple as it needs to be, don't mess it up. Just try to be more clear and simple on monetization. Hit and finish me with just something like this : "There will be two plans: free 500 items plan and paid for 500 or more items. Paid plan will be 4.99$ for a year and we will have 2 million users in two years". Because, as you know, nowadays analyzing people's data is horrible business model for monetization because of privacy.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#16

Post by lucb1e »

Okay sounds nice, but where/how do I get started? Perhaps too much information for a 3 minute video, but I don't feel like googling the name and seeing whether it's an application (Linux?), browser add-on (Firefox?), or some javascript that needs to plug into the page.

Then I also feel like, what is the difference between this and a folder? It's not as if all of the topics I need fit in a non-scrolling sidebar, plus I need to organize that sidebar too. The dragging is new, but it's not like it's an auto-organizer.

The pitch itself is pretty nice though. Telling as much as possible about a product you're enthusiastic about in only 3 minutes is tough. Good job on that :)

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#18

Post by kordless »

First, I wanted to say I saw this a while back and loved the idea. You've done an excellent job all around and should be proud of yourselves! I just installed it and I'll see how it goes. I bookmark a fair amount of coding/tech related bits...

Regarding the pitch, I'd say it's already pretty polished. You are good at pitching and execute on the basics: what the problem is, who has the problem, how you solve it, how you think you are going to make money, and what you want from the audience. If I have to give feedback, it would consist of suggesting removing any distracting content, including showing all the cluttered folders at the beginning and then speed up the fairly slow explanation and the speed up the demo of dragging and dropping things. You could probably trim 30 seconds from the pitch without losing the intent and still demo the feature: bookmarking small bits of information is currently difficult and TIME CONSUMING. Dragdis fixes that. FWIW, I see a (downvoted) post at the bottom of the comments mentioning Dragdis helps him make a cluttered mess faster. He may be right...

Second piece of feedback (because you asked!): stop moving around so much. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the two hands to the head movement, but coupled with the pacing and other arm movements, it's distracting and too much. Marketing is about raising interest in your product. Raising interest in something else (like, why is this guy pacing?) takes away interest in the audience. Practice and confidence usually remedies this.

Lastly, I have a feature request: A folder that auto Tweets things I drag to it.

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