Looking for honest feedback on a tool for fast note-sharing: devs, educators, curious minds welcome 🙏
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Well, likely not.
I would not, simply because it’s an online service. I avoid those whenever possible, and for such a simple piece of software I would expect it to run locally on my machine.
edit: by simple I don’t mean you did a poor job. I’m sure you put a lot of hard work into it, I just mean the concept of a word processor is simple.
is it like markdown for powerpoints? or LaTeX for powerpoints? seems neat, though I don’t create many presentations so I probably wouldn’t use it.
Really appreciate the honesty!- That’s a pretty good comparison (markdown for powerpoints? LaTeX for powerpoints). Can I ask: what kinds of stuff do you tend to write or share? (E.g. notes, docs, code snippets, outlines?) Just trying to learn where it might fit in or if it’s totally off-track for folks like you.
I read the entire frontpage and I don’t know the answer to these questions:
- What problem is this product trying to solve?
- How does this product solve the problem?
- What makes this product better than the alternatives?
I would not use this product, because of marketing reasons. I believe (I don’t remember if it’s mentioned in the frontpage) that it is free, however, I haven’t tried using it because I don’t have an answer to those questions. I’m not a marketing person, but the front page is pretty important. Specially the start of it.
Also, I don’t know what it’s supposed to look like, but I believe that the front page is broken. I’m on Android using Firefox mobile on a 2400x1080 screen.
I hope that this helps.
Hey-this is super helpful, thanks a million for taking the time- really appreciate it.
You’re absolutely right- Those three questions should be answered in the front page. Do you have any examples of tools that do that well? (feel free to screenshot or link)
Right now, I’ve intentionally kept things a little broad, because I’m still trying to learn from users like you-especially around what you think QuickPoint might be good for. But I totally see how that ends up being a bit confusing-especially if you’re not sure what you’re even looking at. I’ll tighten up the messaging!
Really helpful note on the mobile view-I’ll check Firefox Android on that resolution. Appreciate the heads up!
Is there a type of tool you do use often (for writing, sharing, collaborating, etc)?
- Office 365
- Google docs
- Libre office
- Confluence
All of those answer the questions. Sure, libre office for example relies on everyone knowing what MS office is, but it still does a good job of explaining.
Again, I don’t know exactly what your product does, but my guess is that confluence is the one that’s more similar.
Don’t need to look at your competitors though. Go to any product with a multi-million marketing budget and you’ll see how they answer the basic questions in a similar manner.
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Of course if you look at what their product page looked like before the AI bullshit ate the brains out of the tech CEOs, you would find better examples.
Do you want feedback on your website too? I have a big monitor. It’s too big, making use of the entire screen width and height, and seemingly scaling to fill proportionally instead of reasonably. I would like to be able to grasp the menu in one glance, not read word for word. I assume the content is a generated presentation. For me, that’s unfit for a landing webpage too. Too big.
Seems interesting. But I don’t have a use case, no need to make presentations regularly (and without existing templates). The signup is a hindrance, and having to learn a new syntax is too.
No docs regarding syntax or syntax overview/intro either, making it hard to assess. Link to “based on Tufle CSS” is broken. As well as hidden far down but not at the end.
from the overview i can’t really tell what it is, although it sounds like onenote, which i’ve never really gotten along with. also yeah, the online requirement thing means it’s not suitable for secure work.
Hey- Thanks for the feedback. You’re right about the lack of overview or clear purpose- I’m aiming for more of a “just type and share instantly” kind of thing. At the end of the day, I guess what I want to know is- what could this be used for, you know? I might have one idea, but I could be wrong.
Curious- and it may sound basic but I don’t wanna assume- is offline use important for you mostly because of security or something else (travelling/using hotel wifi, etc).
I work with governmental organisations and heavy industry. spotty internet, data privacy, changing laws, cleanroom areas, IT audits, travel to places with less savoury governments, telemetry that shouldn’t be stored but is due to some flag someone forgot, takeover of the server, ulterior motives, you name it. needing a network connection means it has to be assumed compromised, and short of letting my IT dept host its own version, you can’t convince me otherwise. I need to be able to 1) sync data only when on a verified safe network, and 2) trust the server that data goes to and from.
when it comes to what something could be used for… are you doing market research, or basic research? building a tool usually means you have a need for that tool. If you’re trying to market something, do a proper test with a control group. just going “i made a thing, i don’t know what it’s good for” isn’t going to pull in crowds, especially if there is a barrier such as account creation to actually use the thing.
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also, your page is missing basic accessibility features. all the links are <button>s, not <a>s, so they’re not properly picked up.
