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Moomeo allows users to share emails online. Users send their emails to post@moomeo.com, they receive a Moomeo link within 10 seconds (usually), and they then share that link on Twitter, Facebook, etc.
On average, how often do you use Twitter or post status updates on Facebook? (e.g. never, 1/day, 1/week, etc.)
What do you think about the Moomeo concept?
Please try our service by sharing several emails by sending them to post@moomeo.com (try some text & some with attachments). Any feedback on the process would be great.
Specifically, when using our service: did all of the attachments in the email you shared show up? were they labeled correctly? did they expand to the actual size of the image when clicked on? did you notice any scrollbar on the right side of the email (not counting the browser's scrollbar)?
*Please let us know: PC or MAC?, type of Operating System, what browser & what version of the browser you are using.
Do you think others will find this service useful? Do you know of any groups we should approach?
Catchall -- Please send us an email at info@moomeo.com if you notice anything that looks weird. You are the first group to play around with the service.
*We're less interested in design at this point. More interested in understanding our users and testing the functionality of this initial release. Thanks!
First thoughts: Interesting idea. Nice execution. In the past I would have used a site like pastebin for this. But your ability to add attachments put you at the head of the pack.
Spam: I submitted two posts. Both were determined to be spam by gmail's spam filters. You really should try to ensure your mail passes their default spam filters.
Attachments: If someone gave me a link that sent me to the moomeo page, I would not have seen the attachment. I had to look for it because I knew it was suppose to be there. You should put the thumbnail (or full size) in the main flow. I'm running FireFox 3.0.12 on Debian Sqeeze. The attachments look good. The image scaled up when clicked.
Facebook: I very rarely post to facebook, but I use TweetDeck to manage my accounts both on twitter and facebook.
URLs: The URL you are generating seem very long for twitter or facebook updates.
Overall: It will take a bit of time to work moomeo into my normal thought flow. I'm not sure I like the email address you are using because I am not remembering it. I do like the way it creates an easy to view and share version of my content.
My Posts:
http://www.moomeo.com/p/Host-Sauce-Fest-4kZoyk9dD4.html
http://www.moomeo.com/p/PriceChirp-com-demo-page-KrjnKeOZMS.html
Good luck!
When u say u don't like the email address which part do u mean? If it's the post part maybe they could make it a catchall so any invalid email makes a post? Then u could send it to anything@moomeo.com
I am not bothered by the user name (post). I would avoid using the catchall because of the number of pages that will be created by spam.
I am concerned about the choice of domain names. I'm having difficulties pronouncing it, which in turn is causing me to forget how to spell it. The site will have an issue growing by word of mouth because it is not a name you can hear (or see) once in a crowded bar and remember to google when you get home.
You raise a good point. But naming is a difficult thing. We thought we had some classics at first, but the domains were all taken. In the end, we thought Moomeo sounded cool so we went with it.
As for our initial growth, we're introducing Moomeo to active Twitter users so that when they have an worth sharing they'll remember us. Hopefully, some of their followers will want to see the email, learn about Moomeo, and end up becoming future Moomeo users. If we end up being the topic of a bar conversation, that's cool too. I just hope they have an iPhone.
I just want to second Steven's suggestion to inline attachments when possible rather than pushing them off to the bottom of the left sidebar.
I also noticed when looking at one of his emails that a URL was not linked to! Even if it wasn't a link in the email you should linkify it on Moomeo!
I noticed this too, but forgot to include it in my writeup.
I agree you should attempt to linkify all included links, but do it in a way to allow you to gain click thru information. It may be best to do it via javascript so all clicks get logged via a bug without interfering with the look of the link. The knowledge of how many people are going where is valuable and is model sites like bit.ly are using to monetize their efforts.
I should also mention something odd I've just noticed with the emails I'm getting from Moomeo in Gmail. I shared three emails on Moomeo pretty much back to back so Gmail grouped the three emails from you guys in one conversation. I'm not sure if you can do anything about it but Gmail collapsed the text of the second and third emails which caught me by surprise. I guess I've never seen it do that on an unread message before. I'm guessing it's because the text was identical maybe although it seems to think it was "quoted" like in a forward... Not sure what's going on there but you might try including the subject from the posted email in your mail template (an maybe in the subject?) to differentiate the various Moomeo emails I get.
I've attached a screenshot showing you what I saw in Gmail.
Whee, more ideas! Sorry but just thought of this one. I wonder of something like Moomeo would be useful as a means for a website (e.g. this one) to share glowing customer support emails with their Twitter followers? Maybe that's something you could focus on from a business model standpoint?
I know you're not interested in design comments, but just wanted to mention that I like your cleanliness. However, I don't like the name of your site. I keep on saying "meemo" for some reason, it's hard to remember the name of the site and its spelling.
I think the concept is good, but I'm not sure I'd use it...maybe I would, but I just can't imagine right now. I NEVER twitter, but I change my FB status about 1/day. I think the process is fairly simple. I had a little difficulty spotting the attachment in the moomeo site, but once I found it was OK. I really really like that you replaced the email addresses with your own link, that's a big plus! Using Windows XP on my PC, FF 3.0.14
Great site, just not sure how to make use of it and who your mass audience might be.
Just got into the threadsy.com beta and thought you might want to approach them about using your service as a built-in RT option for emails.
Threadsy (launched at TechCrunch50) basically is trying to be an inbox for all of your communication streams (email, twitter, facebook, etc.). It looks pretty neat and I noticed that tweets obviously have a RT button on them in your "inbound" (inbox) stream but emails don't. If they used Moomeo, they could add a RT button for emails just like they have for tweets.
I post updates on Twitter multiple times per day. I update my status on FB less frequently, maybe 1/week.
I think Moomeo is a very interesting concept. I can't say I've ever seen anything quite like it that I can remember. I have a couple of concerns though. First, how are you planning on making money with the service? Second, are you sure there's a market that actually NEEEDS this?
I'm trying to think of a scenario where I would really want to use Moomeo instead of either just forwarding the email, posting it on Posterous/Tumblr (which accept emails), or copy/pasting it onto Facebook and I'm having trouble coming up with one. Maybe it could cut down on some of the stupid joke forwards?
Overall I thought the service worked really well for what it is. I REALLY liked that I didn't have to sign up for another account to use it. Awesome! I also really like that you laser-focused on just doing ONE thing really well. In most of my tests the service worked great.
The one major problem I had with the service is that the Delete feature didn't seem to work properly. I clicked through to the link to delete a post, clicked the delete button, and it said the post was deleted. Unfortunately I was still able to view the post at the original URL. I tried clicking on the Delete link in the original email again but I got a pretty standard looking Rails 404 error the second time which probably means the delete token originally provided was no longer valid. Not sure how I can get rid of the post now.
One thing I noticed is that one of the emails I shared had a PDF and a Word DOC attachment and your system didn't seem to know what to do with them. If you really want to get fancy with it you might want to look into using Scribd's API to be able to embed documents just like you do with images (which is very nice).
I did not notice any problems with the way the attachments were labeled nor did I notice any visual oddities (FF 3.5 on OSX).
I know you didn't ask for design feedback but I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the clean, simple landing page and the actual email post pages looked awesome too. Nice job leveraging Disqus for the comments as well.
As I mentioned I'm not sure who will find this service useful unfortunately. The only thing I could think of was for the "funny" forwards that people like to send. Use this instead of forwarding them to me PLEASE! Then I can ignore them, not that that helps you.
I noticed by default when I tried to tweet about an email from the email's page it didn't include the subject. The tweet had room for 82 more characters which might be enough to include most subjects. That might help people figure out if they should bother following the bit.ly link in the tweet. As it stands right now just saying "Read this email I shared with Moomeo: [link]" really won't make me want to read it too much.
Brian,
That's great feedback! Awesome. We'll work to fix the performance issues, but we're on the same page regarding everything else.
There is no business model at this point. It's two friends working on something fun together. Maybe we'll think of a way to expand it to become some kind of platform for sharing, then again, maybe not. We just hope a couple people find it useful.
Again, great feedback.
Now that I see how useful this site is for people like us, I'll be sure to provide feedback for other sites in the future.
Wanted to mention that we farmed out the design to Armando Sosa (www.nolimit-studio.com). Armando is the man!
FYI - He's still finishing up the site (incl. our inner pages) and our Twitter background. Check back soon.
Well it looks pretty darn god already so pass along my congrats to him! The cleanliness and lack of clutter is refreshing.
I'm glad you plan on contributing feedback and I'm glad you found the feedback useful.
Brian: could you elaborate: our system didn't know what to do with WORD or PDF attachments? those attachments didn't show up with the email? or they showed up, but with a generic attachment icon?
Sure. I meant that it just showed up as a generic attachment. If u used scribd u could show word, ppt, PDF, etc docs inline like u do with the images. That would be really cool. The scribd API is really nice and easy to use!
hey brian,
our engineers fixed the delete issue and also incorporated your suggestion for including the email subject in tweets.
what do you think? does it work better now?
I just tried it and didn't notice anything different about the tweets, still no email subject so can't comment on that.
On the delete issue, the one-time-use delete link in my email still isn't working since I already used it and it failed the first time.
Here's the link from the email to delete the post so you can see what happens: http://www.moomeo.com/delete/kTOCMf0axS/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Here's the post I would like deleted: http://www.moomeo.com/p/Fwd-Racquetball-League-Schedule-kTOCMf0axS.html
Thanks!
Got it. Fixed.