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Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by dcurtis on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:11AM (#69578)
This is pretty cool. But after going to omnisio.com and reading the description, and even reading your description here, I'm not sure what it does. Does it just show conference videos? Making a bold ambiguous comment like the site will "change the way people learn online," should have something backing that up. Will it change the way people learn online by showing informative videos?

Still, well-designed site, and useful content.

Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by bootload on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:57AM (#69596)
"... Community Next creates the premier events for entrepreneurs to socialize and educate ..."

I found what it does but maybe the message in the wrong spot or too wordy?

- sitename No

- tagline not that I could find

- about, yes but a bit vague

So refine the message, Reduce the text. Eg: http://www.omnisio.com/images/about_us_blurb.gif

"... We will help 'everyday experts' of all levels of expertise to easily collaborate and publish their content online. ..." ~ http://www.omnisio.com/about

Will it work? ... Yes because learning is open-ended. Is it focused enough and meet a need? Thats an ongoing problem. Nice work. See Greenspun for advice, hints ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/

Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by ryan on Thursday October 18, 2007 @02:38PM (#69830)
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point, and will work on this.
Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by bootload on Thursday October 18, 2007 @07:26PM (#70001)
"... I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point ..."

It's much easier to remove text and is something that an editor would probably suggest. I really like the idea you have ... demonstration through video - very effective. Reminds me a lot of say Google ( http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3Aeducational+so... ) or Yahoos ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ ) video collections on technology & software.

I've got a question for you Ryan. When you decided to develop your app did you specifically try to be general in learning or focus in one specific area? The reason I ask is that the service can be made to cover all areas but at the risk of dilution in making what users want. The other extreme is you tailor you app to such a small market you don't get enough users.

How did you make this decision?

Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by ryan on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:16AM (#69583)
Thanks for the honest feedback.

Yes my claim is very bold and ambiguous :) Conference videos are just the first niche we decided to focus on, but ultimately we will provide tools for representing a wide variety of information online, and corresponding tools for people to very easily create professional looking tutorials.

Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by dcurtis on Thursday October 18, 2007 @05:02AM (#69604)
Interesting.

But still, what does it do? Can you summarize in a sentence without using abstractions?

Re:Omnisio - YC applicant - looking for feedback by chaostheory on Thursday October 18, 2007 @03:46AM (#69592)
hmmm so you're going up against 5min.com?