So, once I figured out what it was, I think that the idea is worthwhile. I don't know how much of a market there is, given that all the designers I've worked with just use pseudo-versioned Basecamp links, and give me multiple things to click on in my email (e.g., v1.0, v1.1, v1.2) -- if it integrated with Basecamp, I think you've got a huge winner, otherwise, I'm seeing it as a rather tough sell. Of course, I don't know the market that well, and for your sake, I'm happy to be wrong.
The main thing I see though, is that the front page needs a LOT more explaining to do. I thought that I was looking at some tool that detected subtle differences between photos, and couldn't grasp the significance of the picture variations thinking that there was some code to the squares and circles.
Some copy should easily fix that.
Other miscellaneous comments that aren't nearly so important (to me):
- if you've shipped, then why do the links say 'will be active at launch'? Didn't you launch?
- I'd probably left align the logo, and maybe the text. I don't know that I'd left align it all the way over, but to where the left margin would be on a 960 grid feels right to me.
- I quite like the logo, but I hate the font in the teaser.
This tool doesn't serve me, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but overall I think it's a fairly solid offering in general. I can definitely see it being useful.
Re: the market issue, based on my preliminary research (i.e. speaking to a number of designers and design firms) I have found that there is a good amount of people that are interested in a solution of this nature. The size of the market, that we will have to see...but no trial, no failure - right?
This is specifically aimed at designers, and is just a 'coming soon' page. A teaser of sorts. It isn't supposed to fully explain everything. Just collect information from those that might be interested in learning more.
Which squares and circles do you mean? In the screenshots? Those are just screenshots of the UI of the app - still in development and not able to be played with in this launch. Again, just a teaser.
In terms of the 'shipping', I shipped the coming soon page. Perhaps many people might not consider that shipping, and that might be a bit misleading. However, the truth is that I had been sitting on the coming soon page for some time and was hesitating whether or not I should push it out there. Eventually I decided on erring on the side of launching, than not.
The main thing I see though, is that the front page needs a LOT more explaining to do. I thought that I was looking at some tool that detected subtle differences between photos, and couldn't grasp the significance of the picture variations thinking that there was some code to the squares and circles.
Some copy should easily fix that.
Other miscellaneous comments that aren't nearly so important (to me): - if you've shipped, then why do the links say 'will be active at launch'? Didn't you launch? - I'd probably left align the logo, and maybe the text. I don't know that I'd left align it all the way over, but to where the left margin would be on a 960 grid feels right to me. - I quite like the logo, but I hate the font in the teaser.
This tool doesn't serve me, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but overall I think it's a fairly solid offering in general. I can definitely see it being useful.