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Rate my web application: Perq

27 点作者 matterco超过 15 年前

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patio11超过 15 年前
With regards to pricing: I think you may want to simplify that. In particular, from the perspective of an organization with 20 employees, there is no difference between an HR expenditure of $20 per month and $100 per month. $80 is rounding error on a single employee's overtime pay. (Seriously. Compare the cost of your system to, e.g., payroll systems.) However, you have <i>four</i> plans which attempt to make distinctions between non-distinct things.<p>Assuming you're in the right range on current pricing, I'd be thinking more along the lines of:<p>Free for 3<p>$20 for 10<p>$100 for 100<p>CALL for more<p>Now you only have to administer three options, and if you convert anybody with 20 employees you win much bigger.<p>Note the CALL option. There is an awful lot to be said for the CALL option in enterprise sales. Realistically speaking, price is not going to be what prevents your solution from being adopted at large corporations. However, and this might be a bit of a shocker for you, they might not deal with variable pricing that well. (It is easier to get my boss to sign off on 2 * $X,000 per year than to sign off on twelve payments which will average out to $X,000 per year. Think of how much extra work that makes for him in working the company bureaucracy. First he has to attach a projection. Then he has to document how he made the projection. Then he'll remember "Oh, shucks, if this ever materially changes I'm going to have to update the projection, but updating projections doesn't bring in my projects or get me my next promotion.")<p>Incidentally: you list a bunch of features, not benefits, on the front page. Nobody, not even HR drones, wakes up in the morning and says "You know what I want to do today? Create office holiday schedules!" Let me hum a few bars: decrease costs, increase compliance with company policies, reduce workplace conflicts stemming from miscommunication about leave.
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marcamillion超过 15 年前
This is cool. Sounds like you hit on an annoyance that HR managers/administrators have probably be struggling with for a long time. Especially for the companies large enough to have a headache, but not large enough to create a custom software solution.<p>Care to share some info on how this was created? Some of the technologies behind it, how long it took you, any insight would be cool. Would also love to hear how the launch went - e.g. a nice blog post with some interesting follow-up statistics on all sorts of HN related metrics would be nice to see.<p>I like how easy it is for me to know immediately what it is and what problem it solves.<p>Me, personally, I find the green on white copy - right below the main centerpiece of the main page - a bit hard on the eyes. Maybe that green could be a SHADE darker - so there is more contrast?<p>Just being nit-picky here, I feel like some of the copy is a bit wordy and some of the word choices are a bit awkward. E.g. 'Personable Time Off'....what on earth is that? After looking through the site, I get what you are going for, but I am not sure if that is the best way to say it.<p>The interface definitely looks nice though, and for the most part the copy is relatively easy to read.<p>I am also struggling to decide whether or not there is too much information on the main page. At first, I was like 'Whoa!' this is a lot, but I realized that you are just saying the same thing many different ways without me knowing you are saying it many different ways until I understand everything - if that makes sense. So I guess in a way it's good, because before even moving from the first page I understood what the app is about, but I would have preferred if the same could be explained without so many words.<p>Just my $0.02.
songism超过 15 年前
This is beautiful. And the main site is built on top of Wordpress? Impressive.<p>A couple tips:<p>* Make the writing on your blog (and your other pages) more colloquial. And enable comments on your blog. Feedback is incredibly valuable to a newly formed company.<p>Example on the main page: "For over seven years, Matter has developed 'better experiences' in products and services. Perq comes from our own fruitless search..."<p>should be: "Perq was inspired by our own need..."<p>* Not so much text on the main page. As another commenter said, I don't want to see a list of every feature that you provide. <i>If</i> I'm interested in your product after the first page <i>then</i> I'll want to see a detailed feature list.<p>* Take the pop-up that comes up when you click "View Details" on the Tour page, and embed it into the page. Put it front and center and let all of the other text fall below it. It's very close to a demo and it speaks much louder than pure text.<p>* On the homepage, everything below the masthead feels superfluous because it's so bright and small.
aw3c2超过 15 年前
Argh! Tiny white text on saturated green. Tiny light green text on white. Tiny grey text on grey stripes. Also way too much text.<p>Also be careful with serif fonts. Sure, they are trendy but usually they are harder to read on monitors.<p>Shouldn't "3 for Free!" rather be "Free for 3!"?
rbranson超过 15 年前
It looks very nice, but the only thing I'd say is that I'd hate to have to distribute YET ANOTHER username/password to everyone on staff, even for a small firm. It would be cool if there was something that could just use email or if it could integrate with LDAP, etc.
milestinsley超过 15 年前
Put a huge button on your home page that lets users straight into the actual application <i>without</i> <i>any</i> signup. There are so many sites that require sign up (I know yours is only 3/4 fields), it becomes off-putting, no matter how minimal.<p>Just make it so unbelievably easy for people to start playing with your app by just letting them use the thing immediately. Then, you can do all sorts of conversion stuff to turn visitors into users with an free/paid account etc.<p>Also, there are both 'Signup' and 'Join Account' buttons on the homepage. The only way I could understand what 'Join Account' meant was to hover over it. Why not just have one signup button, then as part of that process determine if the user wants to join an existing account. This way the user only has one choice and no ambiguity.<p>It's looking really great. Nice work.
ajb超过 15 年前
For large companies, you're competing with peoplesoft. Peoplesofts UI is shit, in my opinion, but then I'm only the guy trying to book his holiday with it, rather than the HR people who bought it. What it offers them is an integrated solution. I assume it plugs into payroll etc. It also does expenses, yearly appraisal, yadda yadda. I don't know how you're going to compete with that.
trusko超过 15 年前
I like it a lot. I am looking at a solutions that would help us to track time off (not time tracking itself). Perq has very attractive pricing (10x cheaper than other solutions, I am looking at tracking time off for 50+ employees). Design is very nice and smooth. Good work!
muxxa超过 15 年前
About the light green type: darken the green text until the average color of the block (type + white background) matches the current color of the text
paraschopra超过 15 年前
I found 'Signup' and 'Create Account' confusing. You may want to work on the text to avoid confusion.
devilangel超过 15 年前
nice design and clear product selling point especially in usability area.
ableal超过 15 年前
Consider that middle-aged managers are probably not eagle-eyed - light green text on white is not ideal, as already pointed out.<p>A very few may have a fond thought to give to a former holder of that name: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERQ" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERQ</a><p>P.S.: the 'Works with' part is more important than the out-of-the-way corner where it is tucked ...
codemechanic超过 15 年前
nice