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.
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.
Yes, there are plenty of legitimate companies that will generate substantial value for VCs, but when you see money being thrown at companies who exist to make infographics it smells of trouble.
They usually take a bit of effort to understand what its trying to communicate and I don't even bother anymore.
But of course I'm not the average internet user.
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.
Who owns the right to the art at the end?
I was expecting something a little more interesting than very rigid templates. A basic and friendly tool really.
That may come in the future. For now it needs some polish.
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?
"Create free custom infographics in seconds" should be a huge red flag for anyone wanting to actually represent data accurately.
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.
There are two approaches to visualiation: exploratory - When you don't know what the data looks like, you use this to find out what's there. expository - When you do know the data, you can use this approach, which is what the Twitter and Facebook infographics are. We designed the templates around the known scale and range of the data.
If these templates don't work for you, there's additional variety and customization to come that will abide by standards of analysis and visualization.. :)
I also see you've been firefighting today. Hope it's all been a learning experience, and mostly positive :)
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.
