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Show HN: Simon.Says.do – easy way to dispatch tasks to 1 to many

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Cool product and a nice start.

Few suggestions:

- As Jeff pointed out, it wasn't immediately clear what this did. After playing around with it I got it, but stating it in plain words on the homepage would likely help your conversions.

- Similarly the "Apply for a subdomain now!" heading would be better suited being used to tout the benefit to the customer. Meaning, your visitors don't care about applying for a subdomain. They care about collaboratively completing a task (maybe) so gear your headlines and copy towards that.

- It wasn't clear that the logo leads you to a demo -- I had to read it here that that was the case.

- When I hover over the "enter a task" field in the demo my cursor turns into a circle with a line through it and I can't click. I'm not sure if that's intentional because the functionality isn't there yet or a bug with the implementation in my browser.

I signed up and am looking to seeing where this goes.

Congrats on launching!

Great feedback. Thx. The Subdomain is to see who could become a paying customer. We thought Matt.says.do and matt@says.do could be simple way to communicate "on this channel (says.do) I need your help for these tasks".

While I appreciate a minimalist homepage/landing page/whatever, it would probably be a good idea to state what problem this product solves.

Or even what it does.

To get thing done quickly by 1 or large groups of people. It's inspired by what I did as a firefighter dispatching trucks & teams to emergencies.

Explaining it on the homepage would be better :). I only figured it out through context of looking at the Android App's screen shots.

New task assigned to ourselves, thx!

I second this. I understood what it does, but the why? (benefit) is not clear.

Think of it as my Fireman "Golf11" channel that was giving us orders that we could fulfill or reject (bcs busy). A civilian channel complementary to 911 would be helpful in "war time" (Sandy) or in peace time ("bake some cakes for School party")

I like the design and the ux. Task management is a pain in the backside and I'm still searching for something that will actually work for me, for both my personal to-dos and the organizations and groups that I help manage. I do agree with jeffclark that it would be a great improvement to better communicate the pain it solves and who it's for like smack bang at the top of the frontpage e.g. "Awesome task distribution for teams" or something. And getting rid of the about in PDF form and make it html instead would probably also be a good thing.

It's just the start. In any case cheers for your input. "Awesome task distribution for teams" is right on.

It's a task distribution infrastructure. Useful for teams!

You should also link to the PDF that explains a little more: http://simon.says.do/assets/documents/simonsays.pdf

Why is this a PDF? Why isn't this a page on your site?

We'll fix this http://www.sigwann.com/didthis/simonsays

Yes thanks!

I was confused. There should be a clearly visible video explaining it in 30 seconds.

Explaining why it exists, how it works and what it does; the problem, the solution.

The WHY is missing - WHY do you offer it? Why does it exist? - WHY should I care? - WHY should I be a part of what you do? - WHY do I need it?

Related: "Start With Why" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

Besides that I wish your project all the best. It looks very interesting!

The why is to give the internet muscles! Make us do stuff, rather than "retweet" & like...

After reading the PDF file and comments here I still don’t get the advantage, except having the task management functionality as a cool URL . Isn’t this a function of project management tools? Can’t I even perform this function using generic tools such as twitter? Would you mind to provide a use case or a scenario to clarify? Thanks.

Use case eg.: a Startup office is inundated by Sandy, I ask my team, friends (people I can ask for help in my contacts) to bring brooms + a pump +... now! and I want to have instant feedback if somebody takes care of it, who, or how many, and who can not do it. Them, just click yes or no.

This looks promising guys, good luck.

Simpler than project management (no calendar, very few options) and less verbose than email: yes/no task accepted or rejected.

If you click on the big red logo you go to the demo. http://demo.says.do

It is not obvious that there is a demo behind the logo. I didn't find it and I would have never found it. It would be better if there was a message mentioning it, like:

"Curious? Check out our demo to learn more" http://demo.says.do/

link to android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bliss.simo...

Quantified the right way. Excellent. +1

btw I am "Dens" on the app. Task me anything!

really cool!

Thx motivating

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