AshMokhberi's comments

Thanks :)

Thanks I'm glad you like it. I will take you up on that and get you on email.

As you can tell we are adding an intelligence layer above notification providers. That will certainly help reduce the friction in on-boarding for co's like roost. Much like Segment.io did for analytics companies.

Having a closer integration with you guys would be a great benefit.

Thanks, glad you noticed :)

Hi All, I'm the founder of Latis. I would really appreciate any feedback/thoughts.

We designed it as a REST API so it can work across all platforms mobile, web and desktop.

The API is super easy so it's simple to integrate within most apps. As time goes on we will be adding client libraries for common platforms, languages and frameworks to make integration even easier.

The naming is certainly something I have issues with. I haven't really spent any time thinking about how else to express it but I don't think I will be short of ideas when I do.

In terms of what kind of talent it will attract I have no idea. For me personally I think with the type of issues we want to deal with, diversity is key. You need talent as much as you just need a different point of view.

It's great that you have been thinking about doing something at your university. What other things have you experienced so far ?

I completely agree, I think there are many ways you could do things on a longer term basis. I think the idea of the "startup weekend" style event has a couple of benefits in this context.

1. It's a good way to try it and see what happens and learn so you can learn what to improve in the format.

2. It helps gain momentum because you're only requesting a small amount of initial time investment from people.

3. One of the key points I wanted to stress was the ability to have organisations on hand to help fill in knowledge gaps about the realties of the situation data etc, and also be able be actively involved in the process. I think it's easier to get them involved in that capacity for one weekend. Then build on there involvement after they see the value etc.

I think you're dead on with on with your intuitions. I find QA a problem because on a traditional production line QA is a very defined process.

However in software what is QA the UI, interaction, API, backend code ?

More to the point do I really need QA ? As a Startup is QA not a part of our core design and iteration process as we try to achieve "product market fit" ?

That's interesting. It's very much what I assumed we use tabs to store the temporary stuff that we need right now or in the very short term. Bookmarks are not a solution engineered towards this very temporary way of working. However tabs are not the ideal solution either they are just a work around. I often find I want a convenient and temporary place to put this short lived content and it should disappear when I stop using it. What do you think ?

I think the opposite you're exactly the person worth paying attention to :)

I think most people like the idea of being "free" from hoarding. because it clutters the mind. I guess the thing with bookmarks is that they need to disappear after either an action or a certain amount of time has passed since they where last used/created.

I'm also wondering how this works visually. I often find if things are just messy then I hate it and feel like I'm cluttered. But if something is kept clean and structured then I'm happy for it to stay as long as it gets out of my way when I don't need it.

I'm wondering if bookmarks are the same. If I don't need you disappear. But when I want to get it back then I want to find it in a clean and organised way.

The problem is I don't want to invest anytime in the process of managing the clutter. I want to manage itself.

What do you think ?

That's exactly the direction we where going would you mind looking at our extension. You don't have to use it just maybe read and watch the demo vid. I would love to get your thoughts on it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/latis/adkmonocjplf...

So do you think that's what's more important it's not that bookmarks are wrong it's that the UX is terrible ? Or is that reading stuff later is actually what you want to do most of the time with bookmarks ?

That's a very interesting use case and I can see how that would be valuable. I share a similar thought on bookmarks as in right now they are very permanent things when what I really want is like a temporary scrapboard that automatically disappears when I stop adding stuff to it. What do you think would that be useful ?

Thanks for your response, I agree sync is an awesome feature. Is there anything you would like to improve about the process of bookmarking ?

That's a very interesting perspective are you mainly using bookmarks for very important content? Do you ever just want somewhere to put stuff temporarily as you're browsing?

We are no way near the stage of implementing that yet, right now we are just trying to find out if people find it useful. In terms of the future we are looking to be able to provide you with hints of useful content on a per stack basis, based on other users who have created stacks similar to yours. Kind of like an extension of search powered by people. We don't envisage this being a social feature as in people will not be able to see your stacks and content we recommend will not display any information relating to the users who added it. We are purely recommending the content to help people.

But this is all theoretical, right now it's not something we are working on and we might end up going in a different direction. Either way we fully intend to inform our users of the changes we make as we make them.

Thanks that's awesome. Is what you where working on still live ? I would love to see how you tackled the problem. Please feel free to email me with any further feedback you have while using it. ash [ at ] getlatis . com

Wow awesome feedback thank you. We are going to start spit testing our landing page text soon so I will certainly put that description I'm there as one of the alternatives.

In terms of tracking we I understand your concerns. Here is a list of the things we track.

1. We keep a database of all the content you add to stacks. This is so you will one day be able to access it from any device.

2. The data we store about the content you add varies depending on the type of content. But typically we store plain text, HTML and associated URI's representations for everything you add. This is so we can render content in a visually constitent manner and make it easy for users to retrieve from visual memory.

3. We do not track any browsing data or any page interactions. We only store data of the things you add to Latis.

Hope this clears things up for you. We would love it if you could give it a try and let us now what you think.

Thanks for your feedback it's awesome that you tried it. Yes the swipe to open seemed like a nice feature, and I don't personally use swipe to navigate and wondered how many people did and would they find it annoying. In response to the dragging off. Everything is stored in Latis and we are going to enable dragging off stacks back on to page soon :) I would love to hear your thoughts after you have used it a bit more or anything about the landing page content ? Feel free to mail ash [ at ] getlatis.com if you want to give us more feedback in private or come across any issues in future.

Thanks, we where wondering whether the imagery and the tag line together worked. In a nutshell it's a chrome extension that adds a sidebar onto every page and let's you drag any useful content from web pages and organise them into visual stacks. Would love to hear if you have any thoughts on a better way to convey this.