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31 点作者 joe超过 17 年前
Wondering what you all think of this. Does it make sense? Would you use it? Comments in general?

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SwellJoe超过 17 年前
Nice looking design. I've been involved in the music industry, and I grokked pretty immediately what you're selling--so you might not need to take the comments to the contrary here too seriously. It might be a bit wordy for musicians, particularly bass players, though, so you might try to pare it down a bit.<p>Any musician knows about the merch table, and they know they want the customers name and address fast and in a format that they can read (probably a quarter or more of paper mailing list signups are illegible and lost). They also know they've got a laptop on the road with them. You might make it clear that the installed software doesn't need internet access (because clubs don't consistently have wifi). I assume that to be the case, since I know you'd have no other reason for making an installable app.<p>URL is a bit long and tough. Couldn't get "scriggle.com"? Maybe try a different name, instead of adding a special character (hyphen is hard to remember, and scriggleit would be hard to read). Just a thought. I don't think it'll kill you, but word of mouth will suffer--and word of mouth is how this thing will spread. Musicians talk before and after the show with the bands they're playing with...someone will ask, loudly because clubs are never quiet, "Hey, what's that software you're using? scribblit? wiggleit? fizzlemit? Oh, squiggleit! I got it. Cool, I'll go check it out when I get to the hotel tonight." If you send stickers and cards and other logo-encrusted schwag to your customers, they might remember to hand them out when people ask...but I wouldn't bet on it.
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zach超过 17 年前
The Scriggler is what's money. Show it off first, middle and last. Don't hide it after a bunch of text. Put the ad copy over background images of the laptop with the Scriggler on it. Honestly, it would be better if you had one of those images as your header instead of the album-cover satellite art. Which is great, and yes, it lets us know you're cool, but you're not in the satellite business.<p>Also, I now have 2 in a Room stuck in my head.
jsjenkins168超过 17 年前
My one suggestion comes straight from the mouth of Steve Krug: <p>"Take out half of the words on the page. Then whatever is left, take out half of that"
champion超过 17 年前
Cool idea! Couple thoughts:<p>- Agree that the front page is very busy and wordy.<p>- I expected that you could click on any of the icons on the left (Code, Mail, Kit, etc.) to learn more about the offerings. "About" has more about the products, but I usually expect About to describe the founders or contact info, etc. <p>- I would leave off all the "coming soon" features. Announce them when they are ready.<p>- Agree with the poster that news.yc isn't your target market. I'd find some bands, buy them a coffee, have them look at your laptop &#38; get their opinion.<p>- Bonus comment ;-) Bands must get sick of trying to get their gigs listed on all the different sites (myspace, purevolume, etc.), having a solution that could push that info to all those different sites would be interesting part of promoting shows.
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henning超过 17 年前
Go easy on the egregious Flash animation.<p>Also, realize that you're getting feedback from Paul Graham fanboys and people who read "productivity blogs" and "startup news" websites.
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some超过 17 年前
I went to your website. I read it all. I have a question:<p>What is it about??<p>This is not a joke.
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dfranke超过 17 年前
The typography and the white-on-gray color scheme hurt my eyes. The animation is annoying: every time it changes, my attention jumps back to it and I'm distracted from whatever else on the page I was reading. Oh, and &#60;grahambot&#62;take half the text off your front page&#60;/grahambot&#62;.
limeade超过 17 年前
My attention span is far too short to understand what this is.
indie01超过 17 年前
Nice! The only thing it lacks is a groovy favicon. Favicons can be one of the most memorable features of a website . . . and keeping with your target audience, I would suggest something like a music note. <p>Otherwise, very nice site design, and a great idea. I so want to hide behind my code right now . . . way to make people like me feel all kinds of amateur. :)
Alex3917超过 17 年前
Looks great. It's immediately obvious what it does, and the site design is attractive and clean. One suggestion though would be to rearrange the features. "Code" is more of an advanced feature since not every musician will understand how to embed code into an HTML page, and so it shouldn't be the lead item.
staunch超过 17 年前
Congratulations on the very nice idea and beautiful site.<p>Critique: The top logo area is so tall that it pushes down the rest of the content down to half the page at lower resolutions. Definitely check it out in 1024x768 if you haven't.
thinman超过 17 年前
Hey, scriggleit.com designer here. Thanks for the incredible feedback, seriously. <p>I agree with 95% of you. <p>Thanks for the complements.<p>Feel free to drop me an email if your interested in some of my work bluecommons (at) gmail.com
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webwright超过 17 年前
TAGLINE- Say what it does right next to the logo. Or as a headline.<p>SCREENSHOT - Show what it does, first thing. Show a screenshot of the data collection screen at a table. Next to that (not in a flash sequence-- two pics), should the admin interface, etc. Something like BlinkSale's home page, mebbe? <a href="http://www.blinksale.com/home" rel="nofollow">http://www.blinksale.com/home</a><p>Overall tho-- nice niche, pretty design. <p>Congrats!<p>Speaking of the logo, I'm not sure how much the "it" part of it is clear. I'd go with a simple wordmark.<p>URL with a dash isn't wonderful, but I know how painful domains are.
dottertrotter超过 17 年前
Gotta get a domain name without a dash.
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mattmaroon超过 17 年前
Scriggle it. Just a little bit.
pistoriusp超过 17 年前
It would be interesting, and possibly profitable, to take the user information provided to you by the bands and figure out which combination of bands would do well in an area if they did a concert together... <i></i>shrug<i></i>
daniel-cussen超过 17 年前
Get a good domain name, even if you have to pay a hundreds for it.
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david超过 17 年前
I have trouble reading the tiny text in the "what you get" boxes.
sammyo超过 17 年前
I know what it was about instantly, but software geeks are not your customer. Your demographic probably needs some flash glitz but get to the point quicker.
samb超过 17 年前
i'd cut the initial sign-up form to the essentials.
r7000超过 17 年前
Have you had any luck at underground marketing/promotion?<p>
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twism超过 17 年前
scriggleit.com is way better than scriggle-it.com
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portLAN超过 17 年前
Is this a YC applicant/winner?
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rokhayakebe超过 17 年前
Remember that album promoters who will use your site are most likely the one who promote their own work. So i would make that clear and loud. Instead of spending time and $ running around with posters and Flyers, this is the one place where they can do it all. I like the SMS thing in it. You could add another simple feature where they can upload a piece of mp3 and distribute their own ringtone too. Good job man.
curi超过 17 年前
Drop the verification emails, then drop the text about them which is the only thing on your site I read besides the word "music".
sweeper超过 17 年前
Scriggler is DEFINITELY the money. Guy who wrote it must be AWESOME. &#62;.&#62;