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dragdis.com
dragdis.com
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"Drag & drop anything anywhere with Dragdis", makes it more obvious it's a product not just something on that page
If you're going to the site with no prior knowledge of what it is and follow the instructions, it seems broken.
1. Love the autoplaying videos – it's very easy to understand how the service works at a quick glance, and the UI looks slick.
2. You could tell us if it's free, paid, or freemium. I'm less likely to try a web app that doesn't explain up front what it costs to use it.
3. If it's free, it might be worth reassuring people how you expect to keep it running. (e.g. "Use it free or go PRO and get x, y, and z.") I feel nervous about collecting thousands of links and images in a free web app I've never heard of that has no clear business model in place.
4. In the first video, dragging-and-dropping a link to bookmark a page looks like a sluggish process that I wouldn't want to repeat many times a day, possibly because the location bar and your interface are at opposite sides of the browser. Perhaps mention if there are shortcut keys to dump bookmarks and file them later? Evernote's Web Clipper has a bunch of keyboard shortcuts (http://d.pr/i/FlIl ) – it feels like using vim once you learn them, and I wouldn't want to go back to a drag-and-drop only experience.
We are working on integrating Dragdis with Evernote, so that on the sidebar you would see your notebooks and could drag to them.
The main value is not just to save stuff, but to save it in an organized way, that means in a particular notebook. You wouldn't be able to do that with keyboard shortcuts.
Let me know what you think!
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However, I'll give you a -5/10 for another tiny font size and font weight product page. Even Apple who, as far as I can tell, originated that style, doesn't go for such extremes.
There's no way anyone on a large screen is going to read the minuscule body copy.
"I really love how the tiny font almost blends into the background and forces me to squint", said no one ever.
I don't think the video background works either, it's too distracting, and makes the headline hard to read when it blends too much with the background color.
The headline is also fairly weak and lacks clarity. Your product is only tangentially about dragging and dropping. On the other hand, I can't see how you can avoid talking about bookmarking or "saving for later", which seems to be the main purpose. So I would mention that somewhere in the headline/subhead.
The fact it's in the cloud seems to me to be a point of parity at best, given that Chrome can already sync your bookmarks by itself. Same with Evernote.
Besides, the formulation is a bit clumsy given that I do not want to drop what I'm saving just anywhere. I want it to be organized. I want to drop it where I can find it.
My guess is that you mean I can drag and drop it from anywhere, but again, that's kind of a platitudinous feature these days.
The main benefit I see in the product is that it gives me a higher level of granularity as I can save sub-elements of a page directly, instead of bookmarking a whole page, or resorting to a third party, out-of-the-browser program to save and organize e.g. images independently. So it seems to allow me to save exactly what I need, more easily.
(Note that I have no idea if something similar already exists).
By saying anywhere we meant any location, that means any specific Dragdis folder (that creates organizing) or (soon to come) apps folder.
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And "drag & drop anything anywhere"? It seems that "anywhere" is just a special toolbar on the right side of the browser.
So... I have nothing against systems to collect and organize information; Evernote is just as bloated as OneNote, and everything else is even worse. But they most difficult thing here is "organize"; to this moment, instead of saving links in any of this services, I end up just remembering how to google them up. And this particular service doesn't seem to offer anything significantly better.
This looks fantastic when I want to save something from my laptop browser, but increasingly I find myself saving from a mobile. This is fine for Pocket or Evernote, I just share it to their app, but that's not an option here. I'm also not convinced from your landing page that I can have a satisfactory reading experience on mobile, you don't show that at all. You say I can access the data - but assuming you do have a good mobile reading view, you should show that.
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I was just about to edit in that I really like your focus on pictures, that's where what I currently use falls down badly. I can definitely imagine I'd save more images using this.
In terms of your desktop experience, would you consider one click (not drag) page saving? In your video it looks really tedious dragging from the URL bar to a sidebar on the right when you could just have a button to save in one click and categorise later.
If it's to get new users to sign up, "Get started" should literally allow me to get started - i.e perform a step that is absolutely necessary towards using the product, not create an account.
So something like installing a browser plugin and/or a sandbox to try the product out - basically anything that gets me to my "aha" moment - would work better imo. I think that would then convince more people to sign up.
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Immediately some things come to mind. Why would I want this? Why would I need drag and drop functionality when I already have that?
I had to spend a minute or so "analyzing" your landing page to surmise that this is some type of mashup of clip to Evernote and pocketapp?
I like the concept, though I didn't play around with it to see whether the implementation was what I would hope it to be.
At first we worried that people will not "get" the product without full video, but killing the video link and exposing social buttons increased conversion 5% for the past day.
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Further, "Drag and drop images, links, selected text, videos or GIFs to your private folders or post directly to Facebook, Twitter & (soon to come) Tumblr, Dropbox, Pinterest etc."
So, I select some text, drop it, then what?
I use it, and right now I can't click-and-play the background video, I have to whitelist the whole domain.
I'm not sure if this is constructive or if it's just personal opinion, but I hope it's of any help. If not, just disregard it, it looks good overall.
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I do feel like the landing page adequately communicates what the product is.
Overall, interesting product that I'd like to check out!
It would be great to have a video showing the principles behind the product but the video as it stands is too distracting. It zooms, scrolls or switches view every one to two seconds. I didn't think I'm slow, but the current video the switch from user-focus to screen-focus is too quick to get a feel for what's going on.
Maybe slow it down a bit or stick to one or two key video angles?
Just focussing on one point. Apart from that lots of other good comments here.
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