Vessel.io
vessel.io
vessel.io
...I have no idea what this is. It's for building...apps? Apparently mobile apps. Maybe ios/Android apps? Okay, I want to build an app, is this relevant for me? Is this like...phonegap? Or unity? Or is this some sort of ad network? Or analytics? What is this?
Oh, and how much is it? The price calculator helpfully informs me that if I have 4 apps then that's $12/month, + $0 for the 0 developers, for a total of $0/month, in addition to the $10/base cost. So is that....$12, or $0, or $10, or $22/month? Also, I'd obviously need at least one login to the "command center" (or is that obvious? What is the command center? Do I need a login? Why do more than one developers need a login?). But developers apparently cost money, but I can't set the number of developers unless I add Team Management for $20/month, and then I can set developers, including to 0 (come to that, I can set the number of apps to 0 to; this implies the product is useful with no apps? Is it?), but the total is still $0/month no matter what, plus the $10/month base cost, except I think it must be plus $30/month...or not? Honestly, I'm confused.
Oh, and some bits of the site react poorly to narrow or moderate page widths, including the pricing calculator of doom. Responsive coding to hide the calculator on narrow screens is fine, but it fails to init properly on narrow screens, so if you then make your browser window wider, it's stuffed. Even more so than normally.
On the plus side: I guess I've got to give some credit for the most annoying mystery-meat navigation I've seen. The tiny "planets" move so fast, it takes a significant amount of work to actually get it to stop. And doing so tells me...
...symbolification? Whatever that is? I think? Except my mouse moved, and now the planet is gone ...off canvas? And I can't see it. And now it's back, or maybe a new one is back, since they all look the same, and they vanish and reappear, and can't really be tracked. Except this one can't really be hovered over, maybe because there's a dead zone, or maybe it's a bug, or maybe it's lag, or maybe it's that this one doesn't have a tooltip. Who knows? Who cares? But the more I play with the ...menu? The worse it works; now nothing is light up, but putting the mouse in random places makes planets across the screen light up; it seems to be getting steadily further out of sync.
Everyone here (and me) seem confused with your value proposition. Let's break it down. And I am going to guess that the product is debugging tools for mobile apps?
"The Next Generation of App Building" -> this tells me almost nothing. Rewrite: "A comprehensive suite of tools to debug your mobile apps."
The next paragraph is pretty full of empty words too: "Vessel provides a comprehensive suite of tools in one vehicle, making it easy to solve problems and track progress - so developers can focus on inventing and building better mobile apps." Removing empty words: -> "All the tools you need in one place - so you can focus on building better mobile apps." Ah, that's better already.
Now, you can probably drop "A comprehensive suite of tools to debug your mobile apps." because "All the tools you need in one place - so you can focus on building better mobile apps." says the same thing.
Much shorter! Make that the headline.
One more round of editing to remove needless words (and add information about what KIND of tools these are):
"All the mobile debugging and profiling tools you need in one place."
Still needs lots of work, but you see what I mean by trying to improve the content. Remove needless words. Add actual meaning.
Add some actual information for developers below it in a paragraph. Like: works with iOs and Android. Free trial. Example implementation code.
Anyone else want to rewrite? I'm not the best writer.
MUCH better! Use that.
I had to dig up an old blog post to even figure out what was being offered here.
http://blog.vessel.io/post/49991833111/zubhium-is-now-vessel...
* Two minutes in and I don't know what the product is. What problem does this solve ?
* Some of those floating bubbles are so small and travel so fast that I cant be bothered to move my mouse to hover over them. You are making the user "work" to know the product. Knowing the product should be less work, especially for early adopters.
* I was unable to find the sign up page. Finally found it under `subscribe`. Not the best word to choose.
* The pricing is confusing. For 5 apps: Total - 0$; Application - 20$; Base - 10$;. I'm not sure what that is.
Vessel's, Co-Founder here. Really appreciate your feedback and we are updating site to target the issues you guys discussed.
Let me brief you. Vessel provides all the tools you need in one place form beta to launch in app store and beyond - so you can focus on building better mobile apps. here is a overview of all tools.
1. Crash Analysis with heat maps http://cl.ly/OqFm
2. Crash severity tracking : http://cl.ly/OqHJ
3. In app support desk
4. Beta Distribution for iOS as well as Android : http://cl.ly/PdHI
make sense now ?
Really, just add a paragraph or 2 on the frontpage with a "What is Vessel" heading.
The tiny targets in the background need me to hover over them to find out there is content behind them? And only once I hit them will they tell me what that content is?
Since the product seems like it has /something/ to do with visualization, this is kind of an anti-endorsement for the product.