Does anyone else find this kind of pre-development marketing kind of scummy and deceptive?
It's basically lying to potential customers: You're pretending to offer to sell a product that doesn't exist.
It's basically lying to potential customers: You're pretending to offer to sell a product that doesn't exist.
If it was like "Click here to take a survey about what features you most want in an email service" that would be one thing, but that's not the messaging in your case.
Focus groups et al. are consensual. This is deceptive.
"Yellow Walkman" story is appropriate http://www.alexandercowan.com/yellow-walkman-data-art-of-cus...
"The moral of the story is that you need natural behavior for quality observational learning."
They built an editor and then created buttons for the next functionality they wanted to build.
And for people who paid they used Zurb to service them.
Where do you see this as scummy and deceptive?