In practice, I find that supporting all the edge cases inherent in my business made it very worthwhile to build my own such tool. But then, I guess there are many other entrepreneurs out there who don't have the tech skills to roll their own version of this... this is probably for them rather than for me, and it certainly beats spreadsheets hands down.
That's excellent. For me however, there is hardly time to comment on Hacker News :), let alone code my own CRM when I can get one for $30/month/user (at least for now).
Cost/Benefit I guess. Its not worth my time to code this up myself, but in your business, It might be.
Like you say, it's an alternative to ad-hoc workflows using spreadsheets, etc. and it looks like really nice alternative.
I scrolled through the whole website, and while it looked great, by the time I got to the end I still had no idea what the product actually offered because my eyes were too busy watching all the little animations to pay attention to the content.
Nice fonts and icons but it fails to bring across the message. A little more text and some screenshots would have gone a long way imho.
One plan every feature - (correctly) gives me the impression that if I pay $30/month, I'll get everything your app has to offer.
Extend your reach for less(or Need Less, Pay Less) - I initially thought that this was a feature-limited lower priced tier of your app (for small startups or freelancers for example)
This made it seem as though your "One Plan" was cleverly pushing the plan you want most people to join, whilst still making lesser plans available for those who cant afford the "one plan".
This is a great because it makes me feel comfortable paying for the "one plan" (the most expensive plan) without feeling as if I'm paying too much or missing out on any key features (by choosing the lower plan). I feel you are charging me fairly for what I'll use.
And because you have your needs-based up-sells, you left room to increase revenue from heavy users.
This is excellent and I will definitely split-test this in my business against the traditional pricing grid.
Really like the art style, dunno how much bigger companies will want to pay their bills (i.e. invoices you send) via Paypal though, 2.x% of 5 digits is a decent amount of cash
Anyway we used a version of Skrollr for the animations: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
1. "Sign up for free 30..." button at the bottom of the home page should really be white/on/blue to match "Try depot for free" button styling in the main section.
2. "Keep up to date" is too dark and doesn't look like a hint, more like a message. Also "Submit" button is 4-5 px taller than the input field (Firefox), so altogether it looks sloppy. And it should too be white-on-blue.
PS. Tungsten doesn't look all that great on Windows and even on Mac it has this seriously wobbly baseline. Just look at the "Ingeniously simple ..." at the top of the page and focus on the bottom of it. It works against the look and feel that you are after.
I have a specific business proces/structure that I need projects to run through with various roles intersecting at various stages. Each delegate needs to know what their role is and when they need to perform it.
Can this handle something like that?
Also do you have any integrations available for Zapier? (Or Xero?) -- I'd like to send the invoices to Xero, but also, i'd like to integrate with other apps so i can send data back and forth.
If anyone from depothq.com is reading this; I'd love some more info and if possible even a skype call.
Thanks.
Edit: Hmm, restarting with add-ons disabled fixed it, so presumably the problem is on my end. Will see if I can track down the culprit.
A tour of some sort would be great for a brief explanation of the product.
Fabulous webdesign, though, and bonus points for SSL.
Would you outsource all this sensitive data about your business like this? (Personally, I'd be too scared to do it.)
