Re:KyMaLabs adds an all new service, Wormwall, Web pages in ...
by bane on Saturday June 11, 2011 @12:09PM
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Thanks for the comments!
Some quick responses:
1) Hopefully you were taken to a blank dashboard page with a navigation sidebar for both Momentomail and Wormwall. If not, GAE is probably serving up something wrongly.
2) We're trying for a cute and fun design, any suggestions? Neither of us are designers by any stretch of the imagination and are trying to figure it out as we go.
3) We offer two services right now, one is Momentomail, a simple email scheduling service, the other is Wormwall a simple web publishing service. We're trying to target the internet savvy user, but who may not have much technical know-how. Hip moms, busy granddads, people who want to do things but don't want to futz around with technical mumbo-jumbo.
We want to make these things about as easy, quick and involved as typing an email.
4) If you wouldn't mind letting me know what's broken, I'll check it out. We didn't notice anything broken in testing, but it could just be our machines :)
5) We're still thinking about the best way to present the user's pages. Right now we want people who come to see that it's our service so we can build up some brand awareness, but we'll probably revisit this idea for sure.
6) That's a great suggestion! We have a few directions we're intending to go, and we've been getting some great ideas. I'll throw that in the next development discussion meeting.
7) Our next few development cycles are going to focus on cleaning up the design a bit. One thing that both me and my co-founder don't like is the notion of business=single product, knowing of course that this will drag out development and polish for quite a while. But the advantage is that it gives us more properties to play around with and interesting integration paths between our services to work with.
Momentomail has been doing pretty well, but not quite as well as we'd like. However, there's only so much you can really do with that idea before it starts getting really complicated or we're going to start to have to charge for it -- something we're trying to avoid with our development plan. Some ideas we've received (plugins for Yahoo mail, or browsers, etc.) would effectively cut the users off from the site, and our only source revenue at the moment (ads) -- which is one of several reasons we didn't go the boomerang route.
With Wormwall, we think there's a niche there that's not served by blogs, other simple web page tools, or other services, but we can use to help build company awareness. But admittedly, this is v1.0 of the idea.
Thanks for taking the time to write up your notes though! We appreciate it!
Some quick responses:
1) Hopefully you were taken to a blank dashboard page with a navigation sidebar for both Momentomail and Wormwall. If not, GAE is probably serving up something wrongly.
2) We're trying for a cute and fun design, any suggestions? Neither of us are designers by any stretch of the imagination and are trying to figure it out as we go.
3) We offer two services right now, one is Momentomail, a simple email scheduling service, the other is Wormwall a simple web publishing service. We're trying to target the internet savvy user, but who may not have much technical know-how. Hip moms, busy granddads, people who want to do things but don't want to futz around with technical mumbo-jumbo.
We want to make these things about as easy, quick and involved as typing an email.
4) If you wouldn't mind letting me know what's broken, I'll check it out. We didn't notice anything broken in testing, but it could just be our machines :)
5) We're still thinking about the best way to present the user's pages. Right now we want people who come to see that it's our service so we can build up some brand awareness, but we'll probably revisit this idea for sure.
6) That's a great suggestion! We have a few directions we're intending to go, and we've been getting some great ideas. I'll throw that in the next development discussion meeting.
7) Our next few development cycles are going to focus on cleaning up the design a bit. One thing that both me and my co-founder don't like is the notion of business=single product, knowing of course that this will drag out development and polish for quite a while. But the advantage is that it gives us more properties to play around with and interesting integration paths between our services to work with.
Momentomail has been doing pretty well, but not quite as well as we'd like. However, there's only so much you can really do with that idea before it starts getting really complicated or we're going to start to have to charge for it -- something we're trying to avoid with our development plan. Some ideas we've received (plugins for Yahoo mail, or browsers, etc.) would effectively cut the users off from the site, and our only source revenue at the moment (ads) -- which is one of several reasons we didn't go the boomerang route.
With Wormwall, we think there's a niche there that's not served by blogs, other simple web page tools, or other services, but we can use to help build company awareness. But admittedly, this is v1.0 of the idea.
Thanks for taking the time to write up your notes though! We appreciate it!