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graham_king_3 | 13 years ago

People who know seem excited about this, so I spent two minutes following links. I still have no idea what ifttt is.

This would help:

- Change the tagline from "Put the Internet to work for you" to something more descriptive.

- Have a prominent "About" link on the blog. Write an About page, or better put some content on your home page.

discuss

johns|13 years ago

I'll work on getting better info on the blog. In the mean time, here's our about page http://ifttt.com/wtf

dpres|13 years ago

When I saw "If this then that" I instantly knew what IFTTT was. However, when showing it to people I noticed they "got it" after seeing the recipe "If the forecast calls for rain tomorrow, send me an SMS message."

BTW, really really cool!

planetguy|13 years ago

Even that needs a lot of work.

Okay, so I can create "connections" on an "if this then that" basis. I need more examples of the sorts of thises and thats that I can use as input and output, though. Like, apparently I can control my home appliances? And... what else?

mitjak|13 years ago

And what's with all the MASSIVE FONT?

dredmorbius|13 years ago

SRSLY.

I have a highly hacked local user CSS stylesheet to get around the problem of small fonts on too many sites. I rarely have to resize pages, but this one was actually too big.

Something of a novel problem.

dredmorbius|13 years ago

Dittos.

And generally my #1 rant about any given tool / webservice / product / etc.

Tell me. In language a five year old would understand. What the fuck your gizmo does for me. What problem does it solve / address?

Prominently on your homepage / project page / blog / manpage / help/about page. Whatever.

That is all.

ThomPete|13 years ago

I don't think any of that would help. Right now, either you get the concept or you don't.

Further down the line when "normal" people will be adopting this (they will) then the recipes will be the primary selling point IMHO.

Just tak a look at a few of those and you should "get" what it's about.

jlarocco|13 years ago

I don't think the problem is he doesn't "get" the concept.

The problem is that the site doesn't even say what the concept is.

onetwothreefour|13 years ago

IFTTT will never catch on with "normal" people because as cool as the tech might be it's a Internet-geek power user feature.

Someone might buy the company to offer as part of a home automation type product, but that's about it.

jedahan|13 years ago

maybe having the learn more content just be below the tagline instead of having to click a link. friction.