Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by bobsy on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:25AM
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Why put your age on this? I am sure someone on HN did something of this quality when they were 15. You only need to put your age on dating websites.
As for the video. Its alright. I don't really get the product. The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse.
An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. I also don't like how the video draw's attention to another flaw in the app. After each sentence you need to resize and position the text. Seems like a pretty slow way to email.
Content aside, the animations are nice. All in all its alright. I just don't get why it is on hn.
EDIT: OK the link has good content at the bottom. When I posted the comment it just had the author asking "Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?" I didn't even notice the page scrolled. The page cropped nicely on my monitor just below the bottom of the video and the with the link title didn't realise there was more to it.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by monsterix on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:31AM
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Hey there, I am Arvind - one of the guys behind bubbles here. Let me clarify on this:
> The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse.
Bubbles is a web-app which works on both desktop and iPad. So you could get a mouse pointer and click sound while doodling using a mouse on your computer. But obviously it's more fun to doodle on iPad, and there is no pointer or click sound there.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by monsterix on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:43AM
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Yeah and with more of our world entrenched to use native apps and web separately, it is quite hard to show a webapp which functions on touch surface too.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by tgrass on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:29AM
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This is a detailed analysis of how to develop a marketing video. This seems just as substantial and informative (if not more for the details) as anything Patrick M puts up or Nathan Barry.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by crimsonzagar on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:02AM
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Hi HN, I am Sagar Sharma and I have done graduation in animation and design. Above is my first animation project using flash CS5 that introduces the product I am helping my boss with.
Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by davidjgraph on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:16AM
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Very nice, bet that took weeks to get like that (EDIT: OK, 9, read it too fast). Not sure about the mouse clicking noise for an iPad, but that's a very minor detail.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by bradleyland on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:32AM
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The "standard" method to illustrate taps and movement on a touch device is to use a translucent, white circle that changes transparency when a click event occurs. This video is the first example I could find, even though the video itself is more of a product walkthrough than an advertisement:
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by JVIDEL on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:18AM
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The animation is great, I would only change the music which is a little distracting at times. I get that you probably choose it to keep with the Parisian theme of the video, but at times it feels out of place in an app video.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by revorad on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:16AM
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Very nice video. I signed up to try the app and sent one message, but I was surprised that it was sent as a zipped file. The web link would hav been enough. Getting a zipped attachment is not a great experience :-)
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by monsterix on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:13AM
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Hey revorad, Arvind one of the guys behind bubbles here. We send the letter as a zipped file when recipient is not on bubbles along with a web link. Did you not receive the web link?
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by revorad on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:27AM
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I did receive the web link. I'm just saying that itself is enough. The zipped file attachment just felt odd when all I sent was a one-word hand-scribbled message.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by citricsquid on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:28AM
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The video left no questions regarding what was presented, excellent.
Looking through your website you have "@bubbles" everywhere; at first I assumed it was to do with your Twitter account but now it seems that the site is sort of a bit like Twitter in that people can publicly share doodles and talk to each other? I'm confused about that aspect, is this a sort-of doodle twitter, instead of a doodle based email?
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by monsterix on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:55AM
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Hi Arvind, one of the guys behind @bubbles.
Bubbles is a kind of SVG based messaging system. So you can essentially send doodled messages (or collage) to another user simply by mentioning their bubble id. Such a message is private (unless you want to publish online), and yes you can sort of draw a parallel to DMs of Twitter.
What's nice is that you're not tied to Unicode character system anymore. If you know Chinese or Hindi or just want to imply something, you can simply use your fingers to pass on those vectors.
Yes, you're right to consider this more close to Twitter for now, but obviously our aim is to help our users send mails in their handwriting.
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by jalajboy on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:00PM
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Well done! The video shows off the doodling capability of @bubbles nicely! For me personally, showing a smile on the mother's face on receiving the hand-written letter with pictures and the daughter's personality wud have been the way to end..
Re:How to make a demo video for your startup
by rplnt on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:27AM
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A bit of offtopic:
The content (text) of the post is not aligned within the borders for certain paragraphs in Opera (latest version). Why is that I don't know, but the text is unreadable because of that.
As for the video. Its alright. I don't really get the product. The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse.
An iPad also doesn't have a stylus so I don't get how the person is doing such nice writing. I also don't like how the video draw's attention to another flaw in the app. After each sentence you need to resize and position the text. Seems like a pretty slow way to email.
Content aside, the animations are nice. All in all its alright. I just don't get why it is on hn.
EDIT: OK the link has good content at the bottom. When I posted the comment it just had the author asking "Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?" I didn't even notice the page scrolled. The page cropped nicely on my monitor just below the bottom of the video and the with the link title didn't realise there was more to it.
> The person is using an iPad but then a mouse appears. An iPad doesn't have a mouse.
Bubbles is a web-app which works on both desktop and iPad. So you could get a mouse pointer and click sound while doodling using a mouse on your computer. But obviously it's more fun to doodle on iPad, and there is no pointer or click sound there.
> You can purchase a stylus for an iPad.
Please view it and let me know what do you guys think about it?
I will look into this. This video I made considering web app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbYNIk0un0
Very well done! 20 years old is just icing on the cake, you have a great understanding of many things.
Looking through your website you have "@bubbles" everywhere; at first I assumed it was to do with your Twitter account but now it seems that the site is sort of a bit like Twitter in that people can publicly share doodles and talk to each other? I'm confused about that aspect, is this a sort-of doodle twitter, instead of a doodle based email?
Bubbles is a kind of SVG based messaging system. So you can essentially send doodled messages (or collage) to another user simply by mentioning their bubble id. Such a message is private (unless you want to publish online), and yes you can sort of draw a parallel to DMs of Twitter.
What's nice is that you're not tied to Unicode character system anymore. If you know Chinese or Hindi or just want to imply something, you can simply use your fingers to pass on those vectors.
Yes, you're right to consider this more close to Twitter for now, but obviously our aim is to help our users send mails in their handwriting.
The content (text) of the post is not aligned within the borders for certain paragraphs in Opera (latest version). Why is that I don't know, but the text is unreadable because of that.
The grammar is wrong in the text, exams be over, not get over.