Exactly my thoughts. I spent about 3 seconds total on the page. Looked around, tried to scroll, then closed the tab. Don't make me play a video to find out what the product or service does.
Seems like a great idea. Small thing - I registered with Facebook and accepted the read permissions, but refused the write permissions (sorry, no apps get write permissions). Instead of saying "ok, we'll just ask again when you actually want to post something to Facebook," Dragdis just dropped me at a screen saying that I absolutely must give write permissions.
That should change. You should ask for write permissions, but if it's refused, ask again when it becomes necessary.
I really wish there was a non-video summary on the landing page. It looks good, but FWIW here is free data on my 'acquisition funnel': Saw post on HN, opened it and the HN comments each in their own tabs. Got confused at the website not explaining what it is (did not want to watch a video) and closed site tab. Skimmed through the HN comments, saw enthusiasm, reopened site tab. Watched video. Signed up.
edit: Have to say, the post-sign-up onboarding tutorial is REALLY well done!
The landing page is very confusing. I didn't want to watch the video or register just yet, so I spent a good 5 mins trying to drag the buttons on the page, expecting it to be a demo. Didn't work, thought the demo was either broken or it didn't work with my browser. Almost left and gave up before reading the comments here and decided to register and give it a try
same for me : at work youtube ( and social sites as well ) is filtered so I have no way to know what the app (is it an app ?) is for and who is for (smartphones is it ?).
From the HN comments, I can infer it's some kind of neat way to save web-based datas, but I'm still in the dark.
That was when I had the unrealistic expectation that useful services would stay around forever and not get bought out, close shop or pivot into something else.
It was also during a time when I wasn't as apprehensive about sharing lots of personal data with a US company. Nowadays I pass up the opportunity to sign away my data to new players.
This thing needs to be open source and selfhosted...
Another archiving-sharing-reading-later-organizer tool for internet addicts.
I thought it was a good drag and drop javascript library for any DOM element that stored the position on the screen of each movable element and made some calculation for it to be displayed nicely, according to its previous position, later, on other screen sizes, phones and tablets.
I used to leave my bookmarks sidebar open all the time before I switched to Chrome for performance/dev tool reasons. I was bummed that Chrome didn't have the same functionality, but didn't mind gaining screen real estate. This seems to solve both problems, I think.
Small quibble about the video. This is not hacker-attentional grade. With the sound off, I lose interest when I fail to see content by the 5s mark. (Just some model bouncing around an apartment she could never afford on a model's salary.)
Small quibble about your comment. This product is not made just for hackers so how about we cut them some hacker slack and concentrate on actual praise or critique of the product/implementation?
Cheers
P.S. This would have been great as part of a product I made a couple of years ago. Nice job guys!
I've never been really gotten into Evernote or Pocket, but this had me hooked from the very beginning. So brilliant, yet simple, and thus far the experience has been flawless.
Now I don't want to sound like the guy who said "who needs dropbox when you can use rsync" but I actually just implemented something like this using rsynch and file folders to organize random clippings and notes in a similar way.
So far it's working pretty good. [1]
There is definitely potential for dragdis unfortunately it isn't possible to find out more without signing up which I am not willing to do. Or to login. And I am always concerned about not controlling the host that the data sits on.
[1] Objects are rsynced to a cloud host and they can then be viewed or retrieved from laptop, desktop etc.
I wish this was a mac app instead of a chrome extension. So many things I want to organise don't live on the web. Photos from my iPhone, screenshots I take with my mac, pieces of text I write, etc.
So it says nowhere if this works for something else than a MAC. So I'm not gonna go through the trouble of signing up if I don't know before hands if it's working for windows and if it's free.
Since I'm here to give a real critic I still signed up :)
It's amazing! You should make it clear that it is a browser extension though. And is it backed somewhere or does all my data dies when I reset firefox?
Also I don't really like that I can't browse through what I saved through the sidebar.
Awesome. Even more awesome : integration with trello.
But I'll definitely use it.
Is storage size a concern? I understand that the pictures are actually stored in Dragdis.
Do you guys have folders beyond one level now? I signed up for the beta (?) a while back but stopped using it once I saw folders couldn't be created beyond one level.
You can group folders. Just click + next to your avatar. You can't put stuff to groups itself, but you can gather folders in it, open it, close it, customize it and so on.
I would recommend a "report bug/suggest" feature. Because when I dragged a Flickr image to the folder all I got was a header text on a white background (I think the picture has some restrictions for sharing...). It would be insightful to get these details from your end users.
PS: I like the intro tutorial.
PPS: I hated that I have to give permissions to post publicly to Facebook, or else the sign up process does not go through
[+] [-] moe|12 years ago|reply
When my only options are to play a video or "register with" then I always choose the third: close tab.
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[+] [-] astalwick|12 years ago|reply
That should change. You should ask for write permissions, but if it's refused, ask again when it becomes necessary.
[+] [-] dmslt|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Goosey|12 years ago|reply
edit: Have to say, the post-sign-up onboarding tutorial is REALLY well done!
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[+] [-] luch|12 years ago|reply
From the HN comments, I can infer it's some kind of neat way to save web-based datas, but I'm still in the dark.
[+] [-] danuter|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] pknight|12 years ago|reply
That was when I had the unrealistic expectation that useful services would stay around forever and not get bought out, close shop or pivot into something else.
It was also during a time when I wasn't as apprehensive about sharing lots of personal data with a US company. Nowadays I pass up the opportunity to sign away my data to new players.
This thing needs to be open source and selfhosted...
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[+] [-] fiatjaf|12 years ago|reply
I thought it was a good drag and drop javascript library for any DOM element that stored the position on the screen of each movable element and made some calculation for it to be displayed nicely, according to its previous position, later, on other screen sizes, phones and tablets.
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It would be great if it could integrate with Pocket, so my Pocketed links show up in Dragdis too.
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[+] [-] janoelze|12 years ago|reply
"Internal error - Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
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[+] [-] deweller|12 years ago|reply
I have family that leave browser tabs open for days because bookmarks are too unwieldly for them to manage. It causes a host of problems.
This is the best solution I've seen that elegantly solves the local bookmarks problem.
So thanks for making it. I'm excited to watch this app grow over the next few years. I think it is going to flourish.
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[+] [-] palakchokshi|12 years ago|reply
P.S. This would have been great as part of a product I made a couple of years ago. Nice job guys!
[+] [-] keslert|12 years ago|reply
I've never been really gotten into Evernote or Pocket, but this had me hooked from the very beginning. So brilliant, yet simple, and thus far the experience has been flawless.
[+] [-] larrys|12 years ago|reply
Now I don't want to sound like the guy who said "who needs dropbox when you can use rsync" but I actually just implemented something like this using rsynch and file folders to organize random clippings and notes in a similar way.
So far it's working pretty good. [1]
There is definitely potential for dragdis unfortunately it isn't possible to find out more without signing up which I am not willing to do. Or to login. And I am always concerned about not controlling the host that the data sits on.
[1] Objects are rsynced to a cloud host and they can then be viewed or retrieved from laptop, desktop etc.
[+] [-] davidkatz|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] baby|12 years ago|reply
Since I'm here to give a real critic I still signed up :)
It's amazing! You should make it clear that it is a browser extension though. And is it backed somewhere or does all my data dies when I reset firefox?
Also I don't really like that I can't browse through what I saved through the sidebar.
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[+] [-] hesslau_|12 years ago|reply
great idea! i'm putting this on my weekend-projects list
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