Ask HN: Review our brand spanking new web designer mockup tool, Clickdummy.com
We'd love any and all feedback on our newly launched (not quite yet SaaS) application to help web design firms, freelancers, and UI designers alike speed up the process of prototyping with client feedback. There's a number of tools in the market, but we would like to thing we have a unique take on the problem at hand and some elegant and useful solutions. Here's the gist of the app:
"A 'clickdummy' is a mockup, evolved. Dummies let users navigate your mockups as if they were live websites or applications. Simply upload mockups you've created offline and draw clickable areas to let users navigate between them. The result is a very convincing simulation that does a much better job of communicating user experience than mockups alone."
Here's a blog post a fellow employee created regarding the difficulties of building the app in node.js:
http://skookum.com/blog/building-a-non-trivial-app-in-node-js/
There's been a ton of man hours spread across five buddies to get this thing out the door in 4 months. The whole project was bootstrapped and our team resides in Charlotte, NC.
We'd love any and all feedback you can give us. Feel free to either reply here or if you find a glaring issue, please please don't hesitate to add it to our Zendesk account at http://help.skookum.com/
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Perhaps I am being overly-sensitive on the naming issue, but it seems that using what can be a pejorative term as part of your company name could backfire.
The home page took 25+ seconds to load - hopefully this is because lots of other HNers are currently checking it out.
I do like the idea overall, and the site design is nice and understated.
https://clickdummy.com/shared/E883012B-5B89-4AA3-AB7B-1FB1A9...
This is really a more general point, but why do more sites not use StackOverflow's system, wherein you can use the site provisionally, with your identity being tracked by a cookie, and the user can choose to convert to something with a bit more persistence later.
Another little gripe is the lack of an instruction video. It'd help.
(Just spend about 6 minutes on the site)