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Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

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Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

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Post by yokom »

imdsm wrote: post #27

I use this. I love this. But when you told me you're going to make money from my drag & drops, it made me pause. Not that I think you're an immoral company, and not that I am being naive in thinking that a dozen others aren't already tracking me, but how exactly will you be using "my data"?

I'm not affiliated with this company, but usually data collection like this is completely harmless. They will pick up things like hashed URLs you drag, the text contained in the URL you just dragged, file type information (text? image? etc), number of interactions in a given time period, etc.

And obviously, it's just for ad targeting.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#32

Post by borplk »

I guess I'm very farm from your target audience but for what it's worth I wouldn't use a tool like this, especially if it revolves around ads.

In my view the problem you are solving does not warrant a service with ads because it can rather easily be solved locally with a standalone application.

Google gets away with ads because I can't get those search results anywhere else.

But technology wise your solution is easy to replicate, your point of advantage may be in the number of integrations, but nothing fundamentally difficult like searching the web.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#33

Post by Blahah »

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…

I came here to say almost exactly this (including the bit about loving the concept and pitch!).

The Twitter sign-up process was unexpected, and then randomly failed and took me to an error page.

I tried again and this time noticed that the check box that says 'agree to terms and privacy' doesn't link to the terms or privacy agreement, so I don't know what I'm agreeing to. This could get you into trouble in some jurisdictions.

Finally, the google signup worked with two clicks and didn't request a username/password - this is what the Twitter one should be like.

One more piece of feedback - I already knew how the product worked (it's obvious!), and I wanted to skip the walkthrough, but there wasn't a button for that. Add a 'skip' button to ease frustration :).

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#34

Post by josephjrobison »

dmslt wrote: post #9
harel wrote: post #8

As an early adopter, I've been using this service a lot as my main bookmarking service. It's fantastic. Thanks.

Thank you so much! Pssst... it's available on mobile also. We just didn't announce it :) Open dragdis.com on your iPhone, iPad or any other device.

By it's available on mobile, do you mean you can drag and drop on mobile, or only read? I've been using it for a month and I love it.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#35

Post by josephjrobison »

Blahah wrote: post #30
tarikozket wrote: post #15

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 busin…

If the choice was 500 items for free or pay, I just wouldn't use the service. The vast majority of people would rather have something at no monetary cost and pay by releasing their data for advert targeting.

Whats App doesn't charge people for the first year of use, and then charge $1/year after that. The model can work for Dragdis possibly.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

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Post by josephjrobison »

I think the presentation was great, engaging, interesting. You did a bid of Jobs-ian presenting, making the platform look simple and magical. I've been using it for a month and love it. I still use Evernote for screenshotting designs I like, and use Google bookmarks for full articles, but Dragdis is perfect for copy snippets or quotes I want to save for later. Great for idea generation.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#37

Post by josephjrobison »

dmslt wrote: post #5
tobinharris wrote: post #3

Thought it was a good pitch, a genuine problem, and a good long term vision. I think you need a new name. Potentially focusing on a different angle other than Drag and Drop. Such as curating. Organising. Sharing. Simplifying. Also, the phrase "Drag & Drop" sounds old school. It's like you're trying to sell something we've all been doing for years. As a developer I'd also be more interested in keyboard shortcuts, like…

The drag&drop part will always evolve. If we gonna come up with a more straight to move things around we gonna use that :) Thanks!

I personally do like Dragdis - although I haven't thought of any alternatives.

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#39

Post by tarikozket »

Blahah wrote: post #30
tarikozket wrote: post #15

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 busin…

If the choice was 500 items for free or pay, I just wouldn't use the service. The vast majority of people would rather have something at no monetary cost and pay by releasing their data for advert targeting.

Don't you use Dropbox, Parse, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, CloudFlare or New Relic? It's a usual business model. Also, in my opinion, the vast majority of people would think "a free extension which one sees all of my movements on the internet says 'I'm gonna show you related advertising about your dragged items, hehe', what a horror story! I would rather pay 1$ or 5$ to it and feel safe myself.".

Re: Dragdis 3 minute pitch. Feedback needed

#40

Post by tarikozket »

josephjrobison wrote: post #35
Blahah wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the choice was 500 items for free or pay, I just wouldn't use the service. The vast majority of people would rather have something at no monetary cost and pay by releasing their data for advert targeting.

Whats App doesn't charge people for the first year of use, and then charge $1/year after that. The model can work for Dragdis possibly.

Yes, probably.
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