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Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#42
post #21

this may sound bumb, but ... with all the designy ui and pristine graphics and all... after staring at it for 10 seconds I still have no idea what is this all about. Everything is way too spaced out and I need to dig deep. For most users these days means they simply leave your site.

Thanks for the comment! http://dragd.is/7XEr9

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#44
post #40

A buddy of mine and I had the same idea a while back but we never attempted to implement it because it seemed like it would be difficult to do on mobile. I'm hoping these guys can execute on mobile because it would be exactly what we wanted.

We have a strategy on mobile. It some terms it's even better on mobile :)

I'm curious how you're planning on doing it on iOS. There weren't a lot of very helpful APIs to access in UIWebView at the time I was looking into doing this idea. Didn't seem impossible, just very difficult.

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#45
After watching the video, it occurred to me that all I can do with this is share and save. And that's the end result, the goal; dragging and dropping is just a way to do it. Even your own points below are about _collecting_ information and _accessing_ it, nothing else.

And "drag & drop anything anywhere"? It seems that "anywhere" is just a special toolbar on the right side of the browser.

So... I have nothing against systems to collect and organize information; Evernote is just as bloated as OneNote, and everything else is even worse. But they most difficult thing here is "organize"; to this moment, instead of saving links in any of this services, I end up just remembering how to google them up. And this particular service doesn't seem to offer anything significantly better.

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#46
Some feedback from an Evenote Premium customer who uses their Web Clipper 50 times a day:

1. Love the autoplaying videos – it's very easy to understand how the service works at a quick glance, and the UI looks slick.

2. You could tell us if it's free, paid, or freemium. I'm less likely to try a web app that doesn't explain up front what it costs to use it.

3. If it's free, it might be worth reassuring people how you expect to keep it running. (e.g. "Use it free or go PRO and get x, y, and z.") I feel nervous about collecting thousands of links and images in a free web app I've never heard of that has no clear business model in place.

4. In the first video, dragging-and-dropping a link to bookmark a page looks like a sluggish process that I wouldn't want to repeat many times a day, possibly because the location bar and your interface are at opposite sides of the browser. Perhaps mention if there are shortcut keys to dump bookmarks and file them later? Evernote's Web Clipper has a bunch of keyboard shortcuts (http://d.pr/i/FlIl ) – it feels like using vim once you learn them, and I wouldn't want to go back to a drag-and-drop only experience.

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#47
Wow. Annoying animation. Taking up 50% of screen real estate.

Further, "Drag and drop images, links, selected text, videos or GIFs to your private folders or post directly to Facebook, Twitter & (soon to come) Tumblr, Dropbox, Pinterest etc."

So, I select some text, drop it, then what?

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#48
post #18

My internet is pretty slow at work, so the video although nice looking was choppy and really bad. Not sure what you can do about it, but it didn't look good at all.

Whole team is now discussing about this. Thanks for the comment!

I have good internet. I am in Korea though, so that might have been part of the problem, but the video was VERY laggy and annoying.

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#49

Some feedback from an Evenote Premium customer who uses their Web Clipper 50 times a day: 1. Love the autoplaying videos – it's very easy to understand how the service works at a quick glance, and the UI looks slick. 2. You could tell us if it's free, paid, or freemium. I'm less likely to try a web app that doesn't explain up front what it costs to use it. 3. If it's free, it might be worth reassuring people how you…

This is really really helpful! Thank you so much!

We are working on integrating Dragdis with Evernote, so that on the sidebar you would see your notebooks and could drag to them.

The main value is not just to save stuff, but to save it in an organized way, that means in a particular notebook. You wouldn't be able to do that with keyboard shortcuts.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!

Re: Please rate our new landing page.

#50
Product looks pretty cool.

However, I'll give you a -5/10 for another tiny font size and font weight product page. Even Apple who, as far as I can tell, originated that style, doesn't go for such extremes.

There's no way anyone on a large screen is going to read the minuscule body copy.

"I really love how the tiny font almost blends into the background and forces me to squint", said no one ever.

I don't think the video background works either, it's too distracting, and makes the headline hard to read when it blends too much with the background color.

The headline is also fairly weak and lacks clarity. Your product is only tangentially about dragging and dropping. On the other hand, I can't see how you can avoid talking about bookmarking or "saving for later", which seems to be the main purpose. So I would mention that somewhere in the headline/subhead.

The fact it's in the cloud seems to me to be a point of parity at best, given that Chrome can already sync your bookmarks by itself. Same with Evernote.

Besides, the formulation is a bit clumsy given that I do not want to drop what I'm saving just anywhere. I want it to be organized. I want to drop it where I can find it.

My guess is that you mean I can drag and drop it from anywhere, but again, that's kind of a platitudinous feature these days.

The main benefit I see in the product is that it gives me a higher level of granularity as I can save sub-elements of a page directly, instead of bookmarking a whole page, or resorting to a third party, out-of-the-browser program to save and organize e.g. images independently. So it seems to allow me to save exactly what I need, more easily.

(Note that I have no idea if something similar already exists).

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