I read throughout your whole site. Way too much content. I still don't know what the product does or why I should switch from Slack to OpenLoopz.
The z in the name is not great. OpenLoop would be so much nicer.
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#113I read the first couple paragraphs of your medium post before I got bored. Way too much unnecessary content.
THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO KNOW: "create a new todo item directly in the conversation simply by adding a #todo hashtag to your existing chat message"
That is what separates you from Slack or other todo apps. LEAD WITH THAT.
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#114I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
Whoa, a contrarian point of view on HN?
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#115I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
You spent 15 minutes looking at the beta version of a product, and you've made the decision that the creator is wasting their time? Have you considered that, having thought about it for months, they might understand the problem domain significantly better than you? What if the product actually has tremendous value, but suffers from a marketing problem? That's a pretty easy problem to fix. Rather than using your sever…
I don't know whether you really are just hedging your bets to karma farm or whether you believe what you say but the author has stood up and asked what people think. What on earth is the point of everyone on here going "oh well it's not up to us to say what we think; he should just start stacking up debt on credit cards and bank loans until it's finished and then the market can dictate!"
That is the logical conclusion of your statement, and that notion is utter bollocks. If in 15 minutes someone is convinced that the product is lacking focus and vision then that is a valuable insight. It might just be that the person reflects on whether his call to action is obvious enough and tweaks his site to make it clear what his proposition is. Or maybe he has been holed up for months by himself in a bubble and has developed something no one wants. Rather sooner he finds that out than later.
This kind of namby-pamby "if you can't say something positive say nothing" mentality that I see in replies does a massive disservice to this community and people in it who risk much more than just a little bruising to their ego (whether it be financial or career).
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#116My 2 cents.
People have really short attention span these days. If I can't figure out what OpenLoopz does in 10 sec, I'm probably never going to use/sign up for it.
Try to work on it. Good luck :)
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#117I read the first couple paragraphs of your medium post before I got bored. Way too much unnecessary content. THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS TO KNOW: "create a new todo item directly in the conversation simply by adding a #todo hashtag to your existing chat message" That is what separates you from Slack or other todo apps. LEAD WITH THAT.
This came off harshly. I REALLY LIKE the hashtag feature. I'd LOVE that in my productivity apps. I think it's really cool but for you're not promoting that aspect on your site. You should! Also, screenshots on the site would be ideal.
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#118Lots of advice here. I would also check out other Show HNs to get a feel for how other people present and talk about their product.
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#119Much has been covered by others, so as a designer with 10 years of experience my recommendation would be to change the logo into something cleaner.
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#120I'll come out with a contrarian point of view: I think you're wasting your time and certainly your money. To have invested your life savings into this app which, uh, is really hard to determine what it does seems silly to me - especially since you have a family to care for. Slack Meets GitHub Issues? Doesn't Slack already meet GitHub issues in that it integrates with GitHub fine? The fact that you need a very long bl…
You spent 15 minutes looking at the beta version of a product, and you've made the decision that the creator is wasting their time? Have you considered that, having thought about it for months, they might understand the problem domain significantly better than you? What if the product actually has tremendous value, but suffers from a marketing problem? That's a pretty easy problem to fix. Rather than using your sever…
If I had a dolla' for every similar throwaway comment about my own project, I would not need any funding.
Hey, maybe this can be a new startup funding mechanism. I propose "haterade.io", a betting pool where you can bet that projects will fail by a certain time. If you lose, your bet goes to the project.
Edit: the real problem is the OP's tone. I do agree that the founder of this project has an explanation problem, but the tone was "your project sucks and you're wasting your time."