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Re: Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) by struppi on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:41AM (#5873952)
I like the overall design of the app, but I don't think the stock images fit well in there. It's just generic people, nothing I can relate to your app.

A little bit more text to explain what your product does would have helped me. I had to watch half of the video to really get it. I still don't know how your product is better than traditional monitoring, though. Unfortunately the tour does not really help me here (but I am a devops-noob): For example, what does this mean: "Snooze tries to fill the gap between cron mailing you and setting up and Icinga stack to monitor all the scheduled tasks in your network." I had to google "Icinga" to even understand what you mean. And the scenario you use before is very technical - Might be hard to read for a non-programmer.

If you did not know it yet, have a look at this post (and the linked info graphic): http://copyhackers.com/2013/04/long-copy/ - I would take this route for adding more text to the home page, if I were you.

Don't get me wrong, overall I like what you did here. I think this product would be useful for me if I ran a SAAS application. But you have not totally convinced me yet...

Re: Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) by barttenbrinke on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:45AM (#5873971)
Thank you for the feedback. The choice for stock-photos is one of budget. I'm currently bootstrapping myself and thought this was a good tradeoff.
Re: Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) by jeffclark on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:59AM (#5874035)
Don't worry about the stock photos. If you weren't asking for specific feedback, nobody would have mentioned it.
Re: Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) by struppi on Thursday June 13, 2013 @10:11AM (#5874096)
Yes, the stock photos are a really minor issue. But, if you can draw a little diagram that explains your service on a white board, I would prefer that to the lady who has nothing to do with your startup...
Re: Review my startup (background job monitoring as a service) by barttenbrinke on Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:37AM (#5874599)
I'd like that, but drawing a diagram for this is hard :)