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Stormweight provides a forum for you to gather the best ideas with your team and integrate everyone's priorities. Suggest ideas, comment, chat, and vote in realtime with your team so the brainstorming can progress at any speed, regardless of physical proximity.
Stormweight is the best way for a group of smart, opinionated people (like a startup) to come to consensus and adjust rapidly as a team.
We're looking for specific design suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, and most importantly, feedback on how we communicate about the product (marketing). We really believe in our product and want to make sure our explanations are understandable.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your feedback. We've gotten the drop shadow feedback a few times now, so we're looking into fixing it. Where on the site do you find it most egregious?
You're exactly right about the tour -- that's going to be the home of a screencast we're currently working on; expect that in a few days. We've also gotten requests for that from pretty much everyone, so it's high priority on our stormweight list :)
We distinguish between username and email address because the app refers to people by username in various places, some of which are potentially public and it didn't seem polite to display email address. I suppose we could leave it optional and populate it with everything before the @ for people that don't specify.
We've fixed the bug that caused your "something went wrong" error and upgraded your account in thanks for finding it.
Re: the dropshadows - Pretty much on the front page. It looked like every heading on the page had a drop shadow.
I saw that you referred to me by username but in the one place I noticed it it seemed completely unnecessary. I'd rather see a free-form name field in-lieu of the email/login especially since I noticed you have a spot for that in the profile anyways. I realize if you did that though you wouldn't be saving any fields on the signup but the name field could be optional and fall back on what you said above.
Thanks for fixing that bug and the account upgrade!
I also just noticed that viewing a featured list added it to My Lists in my dashboard w/out me asking it to. Not sure that's what should happen. I like that I CAN do that but I don't think that should be the default behavior for just peeking in a list.
Not trying to start a debate, but IE still has a huge market share within most business / corporations firewalls and is strictly enforced (such as where I am). If you only support a "partial feature set" on IE7, would the customer get a partial discount on the service?
I agree that ignoring IE7 is probably not a good idea at this point. IE6 on the other hand.... die die die IE6!
Launchly supports IE6 No More - http://www.ie6nomore.com/
Hi Eric,
We went for "making an awesome experience for a few users" instead of "trying to please everyone," and looking at our demographic and analytics, we don't actually get that many IE7 users. Additionally, if they really can't install Firefox on their machine, they're probably not our target demographic. We're intentionally not marketing or pricing for enterprise customers for a number of reasons.
However, to the best of my knowledge, everything currently works on IE7, it just is uglier than the modern browsers. I'd actually really appreciate feedback from windows users on IE7 usability.
Thanks for the feedback!
I think the home page is pretty good. The font being use on the call to action buttons to the right of the video could be improved.
The image on your about page does not enlarge when I click on it. Either it should enlarge or it should not be clickable. Its not readable so really it should enlarge. Also the text on the about page could be a made more useful by including a block quote or sub headings to help break up the text. Also, who is behind the company. Bland about pages are the hallmark startups bad at marketing. A bio with pictures and your companies stories are what it needs to be improved.
On the pricing page, the text below the pricing package name is extraneous and could be removed.
Personally I think the pricing is ridiculous. This product category seems way to crowded to allow for those kinds of prices. Also, I would suggest going with 3 rather than four tiers of pricing. I really really hope that you have got in front of as many customers as possible and if not that you dont write another line of code until you do. If you have not already I would highly recommend immersing yourself in the lean start-up culture
I'm not in love with the pin-striping. I also think you may have gone a bit overboard on the drop shadows.
I was a bit surprised that the Learn More link (at least the one at the bottom of your main page) went to the about page instead of the Tour page. The tabs at the top fo the about page (about/company) don't look quite right either. Something about them just looks off (in FF 3.5 Mac).
Oh wait, now I see why... your tour is not finished. I assume you'll point the Learn More link there once it's done. I'd love to see a screencast or video on what this looks like/does before I sign up.
On your pricing I think you may want to consider adding more lists to the $10 starter plan to entice people to pay more. As it stands there is not (IMO) enough feature differentiation between Free and Starter to justify $10 per month.
Love the simplicity of the signup form. My only real question there is why did you decide to distinguish between email and login. I did that in the past too but now really do not see much if any reason to do so. One less field is never a bad thing.
I got to step 3/3 and was immediately somewhat lost as to what to do. That's where a video would be immensely helpful. I had 4 panes of stuff and just looked like a lot fo "stuff" w/out much direction to me. I was not in love with the UI here but I'm not really sure what to do to improve it.
I went to my Dashboard next. I saw a Featured List, Stormweight Suggestions. It showed as secured but it was there so I clicked it. I got an orange "something went wrong" error. Actually all 3 featured lists gave me that error. So did all the others except for my own list.