Share your product here to get support, feedback, users (w/c 20th of July)

@alex_harley Just checked it out, looks really clean and nice! Also, great idea about securing backend systems. Question - will we be able to integrate with other platforms that hold other consumer data? Basically, is it possible to import in or merge data from other places?

@jeffery_widjaja thanks! Of course one reason I created Portabella is for data sovereignty reasons. Of course it should be encrypted by default but you should have the option to make boards public or integrate with other services.

@shraddhasrivastava nice product, I have visited your website and I will be trying out the free trial on WordPress website I am building.

@shraddhasrivastava Very good landing page for a product to sell landing pages. From what I see the only feedback on the landing page itself is that sections are a bit too crowded. Ideally, I would like to have 1 section take up the entire screen so I can concentrate that that particular section. When I am at the stage of building a landing page and trying to convert, I will check browsee out!

@shraddhasrivastava Cool concept! I'm going to bookmark this for when my product launches. The landing page looks great - love the bright colors. The only thing I would mention for feedback is seeing if you can find a way to create more space around the section text. It looks a bit crowded. Overall, really great page!

@shraddhasrivastava Hi. I think the navigation bar on "Browser" is to big for smart phones. It's hiding the first few words, try pushing the header down a few px

@jessica_yahfoufi Thanks a lot, Jessica! I agree that it is looking a bit overcrowded and I will fix it. If you get a change to use Browsee, kindly let us know if you have any feedback for us.

@ryan_wilson6 Wow. Product looks awesome, great job. Small UI fix: the text below "Get Early Access" button needs some margin-top.

@ryan_wilson6 hey ryan, thanks for your help last week. i'm super drawn to this because it's how i naturally organize my tabs. i have a browser window for each "task" i'm working on, and then at least 5-6 tabs per window. reducing the number of windows i have open would really declutter my mind as i work. i think the LP is great. just a small suggestion: i feel like the video doesn't do as much as the gifs a little further down the page. maybe an opening imaging of something super organized (tech or otherwise) would really draw the user in. also, in the video and the first gifs, when you switch from W1 to W4, it's still Gmail, which doesn't automatically jump out at me that anything has changed. maybe re-record with an example about two totally different topics.

@amy_tang Hey Amy! Thanks for taking the time :) I work the same way, with organized windows. Thanks for the feedback! It's very helpful. I'm thinking of removing the video altogether. Do you think an image of just the menu bar would be good? Similar to https://tryshift.com has on their landing page? They just immediately jump into a gif with a big focus on the bar with the pinned accounts. Great point on the workspace switching but it still being on Gmail. I'll definitely make a new version with something completely different. Thanks again! Let me know if there's anything I can return the favor for.

@amy_tang @ryan_wilson6 Nice product idea Ryan! I was thinking the same about the video though. Maybe instead of a video, you could turn it into a mock browser window, where the user can click the W1-4 buttons themselves and have it switch between screenshots in your "fake browser" element, to really get a good feeling for how it would work (interactive demo of sorts). Maybe also have some (initial) state with a hundred tabs for extra dramatic effect to show how much everyone needs this :). Just an idea!

@wcools Awesome ideas! Thank you :) I'm definitely thinking of making some sort of interactive demo once I build the initial version. It should be easy to port some code over with mock data. The hundred tabs for dramatic effect is definitely needed as well. Hopefully, I can show that with workspaces, you will never have 100 tabs open at once :)

@philflip Hi Philippe, the site looks great and love the idea! The only feedback I'd give and it might just be a preference thing is to center the text on the about page so it aligns better.

@philflip I love the idea in general! I think it’s right on time for the situation we’re all in - would make for great gifting- I saw the price- but how much in US. I did try the demo but stopped because there’s way too much on my phone! I want to try on the computer

@philflip this is really cool! I love the video of a video turning into a flipbook. Very strong opening. I think these would make great gifts too.

@philflip Love this concept! What a fun way to capture fun moments, especially with kids. I can see this being the new way people capture marriage proposals too. So much you can do with marketing and social media. The site looks clean and fun too. Great video.

@davia_gorman Very good point! we started from France, but we can print and ship worldwide. We will add the US pricing this week. Thank you for your feedback

@getwavium @sam_shore Legit I could've used you guys a couple of weeks ago when I started to create my newsletter/blog XD I see that you can edit the text styles, add pictures and quotes for the content, but is there anyway you can stylise and alter the design of the actual newsletter format itself? Currently on MailChimp and I get to play with a couple of different design tools to make the content flow more smoothly.

@getwavium @jeffery_widjaja We're currently looking into the best options to let people customize design, stay tuned to our website!

@heyportal @the_andriy_bond This is great! I have seen friends searching for remote jobs but becomes harder to get hired internationally because of payroll issues. This is certainly useful!

@heyportal @shraddhasrivastava Thank you! Big part of why we do it is to make it super simple for people everywhere to get hired. Also, please feel free to refer your friends to us as we do have a cool referral program for inviting your employer to Portal 👀

@heyportal @the_andriy_bond We are a remote team in US and UK. I signed up for your mailing list and did your survey. Keen to hear when you launch!

@heyportal @the_andriy_bond So necessary! My husband has run in to this problem in past roles and it was such a major pain point. Great solution to a problem more people are likely to experience in the current shift to more remote work. Best of luck to you!

@guilherme_campos Actually I don't do colouring at all, but I love black and white images and usually have one as a background image on my desktop. One problem I have though is that it's much harder to find good images in greyscale that I like than to find normal pictures with color. But now with your site, I can convert images I like to black and white and get beautiful wallpapers!

@guilherme_campos I love this idea, for myself as an adult lol! I don't have kids but I've started colouring and painting (similar to many other adults in the recent times) and I like the idea of colouring online which might not be very popular but it could be an idea to explore. All the best!

@guilherme_campos this is so cool! can you add some more templates and examples to the site for lazy people (like me) who perhaps need a little inspiration. also, i'm curious about the technology you're using?

@amy_tang hey, and thanks! I can add some more examples for sure, will take care of that. Regarding the tech, it's pretty simple (thus it not working for noisy images): it's all in JS, and it's all running on the browser, There's no backend for it. The image processing library I'm using is OpenCV.js https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/df/d...

@guilherme_campos I love this idea. It took me a while to realise that you had done something with my downloaded images. So perhaps a visual confirmation on the screen would help. Also the outlines on my images had quite a lot missing. So perhaps there needs to be several input settings to allow a use to control the output a bit.

@mauritz_sjodin Question - I already have Google News that gives me feed based on my search history. Is there any reason for users like me to switch? If yes, then you should probably mention it in your description so that it's easier to compare and hopefully switch!

@raj_negi I used to use Google News but for me, I still felt like I got many articles that weren't relevant to me, for example, I would get a lot of local news combined with articles about my interests in the same feed. But if that's not a problem for you then another feature that I'm currently working on that Google News doesn't have is that you can choose a keyword, say, for example, Donald Trump. And with the new feature, you can get articles that include Donald Trump but not if they also include something else, say Barack Obama. Or you could get articles that include Donald Trump but only if they also include Barack Obama. You can't do that with Google News, so if you've searched for Donald Trump, Google News will recommend articles that contain Donald Trump no matter what else they contain, which is a big flaw of Google News.

@mauritz_sjodin Agreed. Ability to control that list is a BIG plus in your case!

@raj_negi This is really cool! I wish I had had this in college. For your landing page, I would suggest moving the "lacking motivation?" section to come immediately after your hero section. That sounds like the customer problem to me and it's good to touch on that before talking about features. Reminding visitors of the problem first helps them look to your feature list for how it's going to solve that problem. As for marketing ideas, when I was in college, Hackerrank held hackathons and would find a student to be their ambassador on campus. That person would organize the hackathon and everything. I don't think they got anything special in return, they just really wanted to organize something like that. So if you could just find one person like that at a bunch of different universities and then hold regular hackathons, it would help more college students become aware of your platform. Another option is the typical "hang out where your users are" advice. Find places online where college students hangout and engage with them. This is so much easier said than done, though. If you have some sort of competition leader board thing, you could create a referral bonus and give people extra points for getting their friends to sign up for the platform.

@ryan_wilson6 Thank you for the insights! Yep, makes sense. The Hackerrank ambassador thingy is a good sell for students (Heck I was one when I was in college). I'll be keeping this in mind.

@raj_negi This is a great idea! I'm no marketing expert but I can share some advice I've received on targeting a niche crowd. Firstly niche is good, and the more niche the better as it'll allow you to focus and excel with a specific user group before you move on to the next target users. In terms of targeting the user group, building a profile in the communities which your user hangs out in can be a really good way of introducing a product in the same community. For example, college students may hang out in particular college forums so you could see what kind of things you can help them with or understand their biggest concerns and find a way to help address these and it may bring your product more success if you launch in the forum once you've established yourself. I hope this makes sense, and of course feel free to ignore if it does not apply. I have some feedback on your landing page which may be helpful, let me know if you have any queries. - I'd suggest moving "college students" to the main headline of your page as I initially missed this and then I realised once I went to join the hackathon - The icons in your hero and features don't relate well to what you're doing so I think it'd be more useful to replace these with screenshots or videos of the product in process e.g. pictures of videos of the students interacting - It'd be good to fix the CTA on the page so readers can sign up at any point whilst reading (without having to scroll to find the button) although the CTA button stands out enough so I don't think it's hard to find - Your FAQs are good so I'd add these to the landing page itself and perhaps include the fact that it's a free sign up (this could also be shown close to the CTA button) - Once you have more users and testimonials, I think it'd be great to share these on your landing page as it can encourage potential users to sign up

@krupali_patel this is so great. I'll be incorporating these changes in the landing page. Thank you for taking the time!

@raj_negi You might even go to some college prep websites where senior students are studying for big final exams and searching for majors and ask about ads there. I think the headline doesn't work hard enough to explain what problem is being solved. There are a lot of ways a person might become the best version of themselves. Consider some of the reasons a student might come to a site like this and offer them the answer to the questions in their minds in that first headline and section.

@khushi_jain3 I agree, I think a video will bring the concept to life and make it immediately clear how much users will love this. The background photo alone makes me want to dive into some books. :)

@jessica_yahfoufi Hey! Glad you liked the page. We are working on the video suggestion at a supersonic speed! 🚀

@justynac Great product. I just hope the screenshots were much bigger. I can't read the current ones, even though they do a great job of illustrating what your product is about, once I zoomed in. Maybe increase the mobile screenshot's size and remove the white space on the laptop's screenshot? (I have a 15.6inch 1080p laptop FYI)

@justynac Awesome product! I'm going to sign up and test it out. I'm curious why there are two categories for business and personal if the price is the same? I would definitely charge more for the business :) Also, I think the phrase "disposable email addresses," is a stronger / more intriguing one than "protect your privacy" so maybe try to work that into the headline. Lastly, would love your help on growth hacking. Would you mind checking out my PH page and commenting any feedback on the website or advice on reaching more users? https://www.producthunt.com/post...

@justynac I've seen other services, and i do love Burner Email, but I can see how this one offers an entire email service rather than just an extension. I'm trying to picture the frame of mind of the person most likely to leave their current service, since most of us are using free services for personal emails. Would it be someone who wants to "start fresh?" Someone who wants to open a side hustle without people knowing? Someone who just wants a place to send all the ads they're subscribed to is less likely to subscribe... just thinking aloud. Speaking from the right headspace or mentioning a few specific use cases might get even more of an "aha" from visitors. Also I think I saw a comment that indicates it's possible to migrate messages from an existing account, but didn't see it in your copy. Maybe add something reassuring about that to make the decision to make the move easier. Would love to get your advice and perspective!

@oleksandr_senyuk this is such a great feedback thank you! We are going to test different LP version for different use cases following your suggestion. Very curios what comes out of it!

@jhlyeung Hey Jon! This is awesome :) I had been working on something similar but am taking a break from it. I made a video reviewing your landing page and product and shared what I was working on: https://www.loom.com/share/f9d16... Let me know if you want to connect and if there's anything I can help you with!

@ryan_wilson6 Thanks for sharing the helpful feedback! We do have quite a bit in common haha Even the domain name of your personal page is similar lol https://polished.app/ looks cool! Did you already try launching? My challenge right now is to simplify the product and articulate it to very specific audiences. The product kinda sprawled over time in loose features and got more confusing, and I'm in the process of cleaning/tightening it up

@jhlyeung Haha yeah :) I grew up on a farm so ruminant takes on a double meaning (animal and thinker) I never tried launching it because there was always some bug I was chasing down and never felt confident in it as a product. I had the same exact issue as you where it became very general and I kept building different features. It was very unfocused. I'm taking a break from it for now and may revisit in the future with a lot more focus on writing. There's so much opportunity with canvas interfaces it's hard to not get distracted by shiny features. Do you have a specific audience in mind that you're trying to tighten it up for?

@ryan_wilson6 @jhlyeung This is very cool and I am trying to get it -

@ryan_wilson6 @davia_gorman Thanks Davia, is it still unclear how to use it?

@lluis_m_ventura what’s going to be the ongoing cost per use?

Good question @davia_gorman! At the moment we are just refining the set of features that makes sense, that's why is fully free. In the future there will be for sure a freemium fully finctional and pay per user based on integrations with third part tools (Trello, ...) and some limitations (like the number of historical weeks you see tasks, etc. Still under discussion.

@lluis_m_ventura Hey - love the idea of being able to assign tasks to meetings in this way (even if the meeting is only with myself).

@oghoenuku I made a video reviewing your landing page. I hope it's helpful! https://www.loom.com/share/20e78...

@oghoenuku I like the idea a lot there is something called Legal Shield here in the US that does something similar as well as Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer! I would be interested in having a conversation about the cost features benefits etc

@kibalabs @krupali_patel This is a really interesting take on the "landing page builder" I've seen so far on PH. I have to say though, it looks complicated. Can I change the colors somehow? I see there's a "Theme" tab, but I don't see anything inside it. Maybe some pre-exisiting themes would be nice. Also, can I add new elements? And maybe add a few examples on the landing page as to what kind of pages are possible to be built using this? I really hope this helps!

@kibalabs @raj_negi Thank you so much for your feedback and questions! Re colours - we need to improve the guidance as colours can be edited in the "Theme" tab and in "Tree" mode which can be found if you click the dropdown arrow next to "Code". We're also building more pre-existing themes and templates as a few users have shared similar feedback regarding usability and knowing what is possible. Re new elements - we're working on a feature which shows you all the sections available in everypage so you can build your own once you've seen some examples. We're also prioritising this feedback based on user feedback. Thanks again for your super useful inputs and please let me know if you have any other queries 😊

@kibalabs @davia_gorman Thanks for letting me know. Would a 1:1 call work for you? Perhaps a quick chat will help to share our idea, happy to use my calendy for this. https://calendly.com/krupalip55/...

@marvin_kennis Love this idea! Just checked out your website and home page looks nice and clean. I tried checking out your profile and example profiles but it doesn't show up? Not sure what's happening there. Also, are you guys basically competing with Superpeer?

@jeffery_widjaja Thanks for checking it out! Not sure what's happening there — no errors showing up in the logs. Does it just get stuck on the loading state? In a sense we're competing with Superpeer at the moment. Got some design and feature changes coming this week that should make really easy to decide between the two.

@marvin_kennis Yea it does. I clicked on the link, then it just gets stuck on "loading...". Might just be a problem on my end, but I've tried refreshing it multiple times and nothing's happening. Oh cool ok! Looking forward to seeing the changes :)

@marvin_kennis Hey Marvin! Great landing page! Just noticed that the link of the About us section in the footer directs to the privacy policy.

@georgiy_prygov This looks nice and solves a pain point! Are you doing a PH launch soon?

@georgiy_prygov I just signed up and going to play with it - very cool I am not sure about buying a pro plan just yet!

@davia_gorman I think Free plan is more than enough to start, and understand if you need some more functionality. I'd be happy to hear your opinion. Thank you :)

@georgiy_prygov I like the video that is seen immediately on the landing page. Makes it very easy to understand how this can be used by a particular business. Signed up. I think we can use this in the future.

@jessica_yahfoufi Thank you for your feedback! Let me know if you'll need any assistance on creating quiz or if you have any questions :) I'd be happy to help :)

@tanya_thehuman I love this idea! I'm not renting my property out at the moment but I'd certainly consider this if I was. I think you've got a great target audience and perhaps targeting an audience which is even more niche might help you at the start. I got similar advice when I started out with my product, I was advised to almost nail down my niche to one persona (which even had a name) so an example for you might be "target Dan who has 3 properties". I really like your landing page, it's clear and concise with a good amount of white space so the reader isn't overloaded with information and is able to get the message and convert to a user pretty fast. A great example of this is me - I'm not even your target audience (as I'm not currently renting out my property) but I've signed up for updates because your product has come across great to me! I've tried to provide some helpful feedback below, but like I said it's in a great place already so you might not need this advice. - You might be able to reword your headline to improve the emotional connection with reader e.g. juggle takes the frustration out of property management (if frustration is the most common pain) - I wrote a piece on creating a powerful headline if you want to check it out [https://headline-guidance.evrpg.... - It's usually good to have one CTA on the homepage but you might be ok with 2, especially because they're both quite powerful, so it actually might be worth adding "try the demo" to your nav bar and fixing that in position so that the reader can click on those at any point on the page - I love your demo as it looks clean and it's easy to use - I think it's important for a reader to be able to sign up from the demo page or perhaps you can have the demo open on a new tab so that it's easier to get back to the landing page to sign up - I also think the dashboard screenshot is great, particularly for those who are quickly browsing and may not click the demo, so it might be helpful to have the dashboard on the hero itself allowing the reader to immediately see what they can expect when the page opens - Once you have a few users, I'd suggest adding some statistics and/or testimonials to your page as they'll help potential users to see how great it is, how many people are already using it, etc. - I'm not sure if you've had any common questions yet but if you do then a FAQs sections would be useful to proactively address any concerns that readers might have (I can't think of any myself though) - Your pricing is well structured and easy to understand and I think it's great you've got the discounts as these can be encouraging to potential users - Final thing is to get this shared within the right communities - off the top of my head I'd think facebook groups, indie hackers, sub reddits and communicating through friends, family, colleagues, etc. as word of mouth is usually the best I hope this helps and I look forward at what's to come for you :)

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@tanya_thehuman @krupali_patel That is one pretty detailed and positive way of presenting feedback. Wish more folks in here can get such good and constructive words to help them improve their digital creations. Much Appreciated :)

@fayaz_aralikatti Hey, great job on the UI, I've never seen a website like that before! BTW, this might be just me, but I like when websites tell me what they're about. Otherwise I find it confusing as to what it is supposed to be. Here's an example: https://www.remote.tools/ Again this is just me, feel free to ignore this pet peeve!

@fayaz_aralikatti pretty awesome build! Useful website, and easy to navigate as well. The UI is super cool, congrats!

@raj_negi Thanks for the suggestions, I'll think of a way to communicate, the idea was just to find resources. So, I didn't add any other things

@prvenkatesh I agree with the premise that it can be costly to get going in terms of observability, monitoring and so on. I assume your target audience isn't just startups but other companies that are short on cash or time, non-profits for example. Also, I see your sign-up has a minimum number of VMs. What if a company really is just getting going and doesn't hit your minimum. Do they have to hit a certain size before utilising Metricsbird?

Hi @victoria_jackson, the minimum signup criteria is only to avail the special pricing. We are soon opening up the signup for others for free of cost. We want to charge only after the startup has scaled to a particular level, before that it's totally free to use. Now because of this pricing model of charging companies once they reach a certain stage, we are communicating as startups. But yeah as you mentioned companies of any size are welcome to signup and use our product :)