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Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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>"Sign up and get started now!" I register, and then nothing. Isn't this tool already released?

Sorry, guess some of the release text made it into the beta signup, we'll have a working app ready in the next day or so, if you signup i'll make sure you get first access—promise!

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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post #4
post #3

>"Sign up and get started now!" I register, and then nothing. Isn't this tool already released?

Sorry, guess some of the release text made it into the beta signup, we'll have a working app ready in the next day or so, if you signup i'll make sure you get first access—promise!

Alright. Thank you.

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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I think people are taking the lean startup method of throwing a landing page up to gain intrest a little too far, this feels quite deceiving and to be honest has annoyed me that oh.. I'm just signing up to a mailing list and have to actually invite my friends to be 'front of the line'.. makes me feel like nothing has actually being built at all apart from a pretty landing page.

Re: Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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post #8

I think people are taking the lean startup method of throwing a landing page up to gain intrest a little too far, this feels quite deceiving and to be honest has annoyed me that oh.. I'm just signing up to a mailing list and have to actually invite my friends to be 'front of the line'.. makes me feel like nothing has actually being built at all apart from a pretty landing page.

As the designer/developer behind this I promise you plenty is being build, we'll be ready to start inviting people to use it in the next couple of days.

Sorry to have annoyed you, but there's really no better way to gauge interest/insight into what your doing early than this type of approach, it really does work out for the better in the long run.

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