Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

8 pointsvuzum12y ago10 comments

Blogvio launched publicly a few minutes ago, today, after more than 10 months of development and 50.000 EUR invested!

We're by far still in beta, but we thought it's good to start collecting real feedback from users world wide and improve the system and the concept.

We’re creating a platform for content distribution and I would be excited if you guys would let us know how we've done so far. We've iterated so much on the product design that I feel at this point we could just keep on doing it, or launch it. So we picked today and put it live!

I'm most interested in the Composition creation flow, if you guys find that easy and intuitive. Once we have this perfected, we can open our API for all users.

Any feedback and of course bugs found :-), would be very, very much appreciate it! Have an awesome weekend! Hola from Spain! :-) http://blogvio.com

Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

8 pointsvuzum12y ago10 comments

Blogvio launched publicly a few minutes ago, today, after more than 10 months of development and 50.000 EUR invested!

We're by far still in beta, but we thought it's good to start collecting real feedback from users world wide and improve the system and the concept.

I'm most interested in the Composition creation flow, if you guys find that easy and intuitive. Once we have this perfected, we can open our API for all users.

Any feedback and of course bugs found :-), would be very, very much appreciate it! Have an awesome weekend! Hola from Spain! :-) http://blogvio.com

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sixQuarks12y ago· 4 in thread

It looks like you've done a great job with the widgets, but the copy on the site is very, very confusing.

Customizable "blank" for your website - this is confusing because it changes from "widgets" to "utilities", etc. At first, I thought it was some sort of web site editor that lets you change text on your page.

Who is the main user of your widgets? I'm assuming blog owners/publishers.

I think the headline should say something like:

"Easily integrate beautiful videos, galleries, and other widgets into your blog or web site"

Talk to the user one on one. Use words like "You", "Your", etc.

What is the main value you provide? Make sure you state that as a benefit, not as a feature.

that's my 2 cents

vuzumOP12y ago

The reason we did that type of animation there was to go through the four types of widget categories we cover (video, audio, images and utilities). Do you think it makes more sense to just keep widgets instead of animate to it?

vuzumOP12y ago

What do you think of:

"Add beautiful widgets to your website."

It's as short and easy to remember as the current tagline. How does it sound for a native english speaker?

sixQuarks12y ago

I think the word "widgets" may be confusing to a lot of people. It could mean a lot of different things. I would actually spell it out and include "videos, audio, images, and more..."

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vuzumOP12y ago

Thanks for the tagline. We'll think it through and optimise the copy.

Armslong12y ago· 1 in thread

- I'm not sure what your main unit on the front page is supposed to convey. To be honest, I don't even know if it loaded properly. which is pretty bad. All I see is a huge blue background with one line of text on top and some sliding text on the bottom. It doesn't tell me anything.

- The icons on your footer are not obvious (except maybe for the contact and twitter ones). I had to go through all of them from left to right to see what each does. I'd suggest keeping the text permanently above the icons. You have plenty of room there.

- It seems to me like your FAQs could use a bit more info

- You've misspelled CoffeeScript as "CofeeScript" on your careers page

Anyway, it looks like you have an interesting product here. Mult succes!

vuzumOP12y ago

Hi and thanks for the feedback!

1) It's a sample widget. Hit the widget word and it will loop through several. Those will change as we release them so that we feature new ones constantly.

But I understand how it can be confusing.

2) The plan is to keep the user focused on the only thing that matters, the widgets. We'll think this through.

3) Agreed! :)

4) Will check, thanks!

contextual12y ago· 1 in thread

Clickable: http://blogvio.com

I can't make heads or tails of it. I'm on my BlackBerry Q10 and nothing is happening. I compliment you on the mobile version though.

vuzumOP12y ago

Oh, sorry had to mention it! We did stop the iPad version as it needs work on the touch events. So it redirects you to mobile too.

On mobile you have what you've seen :-) so that we don't loose the users. It wouldn't make much sense for them to use Blogvio there as the screen is small for content creation.

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9 comments · 3 top-level

sixQuarks12y ago· 4 in thread

It looks like you've done a great job with the widgets, but the copy on the site is very, very confusing.

Who is the main user of your widgets? I'm assuming blog owners/publishers.

I think the headline should say something like:

"Easily integrate beautiful videos, galleries, and other widgets into your blog or web site"

Talk to the user one on one. Use words like "You", "Your", etc.

What is the main value you provide? Make sure you state that as a benefit, not as a feature.

that's my 2 cents

vuzumOP12y ago

What do you think of:

"Add beautiful widgets to your website."

It's as short and easy to remember as the current tagline. How does it sound for a native english speaker?

sixQuarks12y ago

I think the word "widgets" may be confusing to a lot of people. It could mean a lot of different things. I would actually spell it out and include "videos, audio, images, and more..."

1 more reply

vuzumOP12y ago

Thanks for the tagline. We'll think it through and optimise the copy.

Armslong12y ago· 1 in thread

- It seems to me like your FAQs could use a bit more info

- You've misspelled CoffeeScript as "CofeeScript" on your careers page

Anyway, it looks like you have an interesting product here. Mult succes!

vuzumOP12y ago

Hi and thanks for the feedback!

1) It's a sample widget. Hit the widget word and it will loop through several. Those will change as we release them so that we feature new ones constantly.

But I understand how it can be confusing.

2) The plan is to keep the user focused on the only thing that matters, the widgets. We'll think this through.

3) Agreed! :)

4) Will check, thanks!

contextual12y ago· 1 in thread

Clickable: http://blogvio.com

I can't make heads or tails of it. I'm on my BlackBerry Q10 and nothing is happening. I compliment you on the mobile version though.

vuzumOP12y ago

Oh, sorry had to mention it! We did stop the iPad version as it needs work on the touch events. So it redirects you to mobile too.

On mobile you have what you've seen :-) so that we don't loose the users. It wouldn't make much sense for them to use Blogvio there as the screen is small for content creation.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse