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After staring at your site for a solid 2 minutes, scanning back and forth, I still haven't gotten a clue what it is that your product/service does...

Also, a major fail IMO, the share buttons are covering the first paragraph of text. This being the first written content visitors will be looking at, you better make this readable as most people aren't as patient as I am and will not stick around...

Same here! A lot of startups play with your nerves using some guided tour - this is a clear indication that their UX failed miserably. Or maybe the target user base is mentally challenge people.

Could be a tour is used to aid UX? A quick run through to help all levels of users understand the features they will be using. You can always hit the cancel button if you have no need to view it.

I did think the site content was quite simple to understand, it's a platform that deals in comms, planning, storage for teams. Putting people together to build product and manage their workflow.

If it was a case of 2mins reading and you still have no idea then that is certainly puzzling.

That's a rather lame response, coming from the guy who submitted this and who's clearly affiliated. If you're only posting this for the "Oooh's" and "Ah's", you might want to submit it elsewhere.

You'd definitely come across more professional when taking criticism to heart rather then getting all defensive.

It's not exactly criticism though? There's no real structure to what you provided beyond "I don't get it". Would be very happy to advise further if you could expand upon your initial post?

Content certainly always needs updated and every rewrite can make things clearer. Equally though if critique is given, if it can be more direct to specific parts of the content or questions raised that can facilitate a response to help drive understanding, it can provide much more help in making things better.

If you note, you mentioned the share buttons overlapping the content on the left. This bug has been fixed, so your post itself has achieved the required result.

New beta launch on our Zephyr platform with workflow tools for channels (video and chat), planning (tasks and goals), storage and pinboard (decisions).

Hook up your email accounts to push mail direct into the platform for content sharing with analytics (v1) and two awesome themes (light + dark) all tied together with our commands system and card based UI.

You can create virtual workspaces with our environments and run your teams, projects, customers however you like. All free access via beta.

We have many more features to roll out over the new few months as the scale the product, both new and improvements. All feedback greatly appreciated :-)

Euan. @gotzephyr

You can check out the actual platform here, invite your team and it's great for solo projects too. It's web only at present, we will be rolling out our mobile UI soon.

https://app.zephyrplatform.com/register/

The "Share" menu on the left is covering the text.

Great catch thanks, have just fixed that bug :-)

I don't know what does it do, but seems powerful.

You can use it to communicate, both video and text based (group and 1to1). Run your projects and tasks. Store your files and much more.

We will be integrating Zephyr with Box, Dropbox etc. Also Github as we scale up our tools for collaborative work.

When we're complete you will be able to run your workflow using our tools and connect out with other platform users to create a remote team, work on great projects and products - with our marketplace and transactional system you can push payments too via the blockchain. Full stack service that we intend to build on further.

The beta right now is a solid set of workflow tools, with free access all through beta and we expect full launch Q1 2016.

no audio without video support?

It's on our roadmap. Plus screenshare too.

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