Visual.ly opens it's doors for infographic creation.

It's fairly unclear to me how this works. Clicking on the "Use Theme" buttons doesn't do anything. The "Working" and "History" buttons in the left panel don't do anything. You can't scroll the sidebar at all, so content is just cut off. So far, it seems like a complete non-starter. I have no idea what the hell this site does, anyways. It's just templates for so-called "infographics"?<p>Worse, the screen is completely filled with "social" buttons. They're in the header, they're in the sidebar, and they're in the footer. Furthermore, the "Follow us on Twitter" button is pre-checked so that if you try to log in via Twitter, you automatically get subscribed to their account. That's a douchey move.<p>Seems to me that the purpose of the site is to spam you with crap. The site seems so skeezy that I daren't "log in to Twitter" through their site.

After SEOers/blog spammers discovered infographics a couple yrs ago I've really grown tired of seeing so many low quality ones around the internet.<p>They usually take a bit of effort to understand what its trying to communicate and I don't even bother anymore.<p>But of course I'm not the average internet user.

Was frustrated at first, I thought that these would be tools to help me create infogprahics without much work but instead I guess you have to use premade layouts for specific purposes?<p>I suppose this is your MVP since your only launching with facebook, and twitter infographics at this point which for the sake of infographics arent really useful unless your just sharing among your friends.<p>Who owns the right to the art at the end?

I feel like this site would be a lot better if it didn't purport to be an infographic creation tool at all.<p>The core concept of infographic templates is completely flawed. Infographics are supposed to be designed around the data which they wish to represent, so how could one design work for various sets of data? Sure you can categorize and make themes for say food or finance, but what about the scale of data? Wouldn't that be completely unique to every case?<p>"Create free custom infographics in seconds" should be a huge red flag for anyone wanting to actually represent data accurately.<p>This would be a lot more useful if it were just a showcase and maybe a place for businesses to go to find the best infographic artists and hire them for contract work.

I guess you actually have to login to twitter to get started, (though i don't have a twitter account) and to verify this i tried emailing them through their contact page but consistently only received the error, "There was an error: Invalid image code, retry !"<p>Further, when you try again (2nd try), the send button doesn't work. Include the non-functional "Working" and "History" buttons in the create page it's easy to conclude that this site is horribly broken.

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