Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea

Posted by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:40AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am starting a small saas side project that seeks to help magazine/catalog/newsletter publishers engage and retain their readers .The project seeks to make it easy for the publishers add interactive elements such as (videos, slideshows and hot spots) to their pdf publications . I know that its not easy , what i am looking for is for feedback on the idea as well as any advise you might have (especially if you are a publisher in the industry ). For those who might be interested I have created a launch site http://www.livelypaper.com [Update] An incomplete demo is here

http://livelypaper.com/demo

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ahquresh on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:07AM (#6979207)

I think this is neat idea, especially if there was a way to ab test and collect data. I agree with natch in that you should put up a demo, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:23AM (#6979246)

http://livelypaper.com/demo/ . This is just flippage effect, Interactive elements are coming soon!

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by pedalpete on Sunday December 29, 2013 @07:56AM (#6979418)

Personally, I'd stay away from the 'flippage effect' unless it is done strikingly well. On my Mac, your page flip wasn't smooth, and your fonts looked pixelated.

As design moves away from skeumorphism and imitating real world objects, page flips will start to look passe. Just my 2 cents.

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by byoung2 on Sunday December 29, 2013 @08:39AM (#6979489)

On my Mac, your page flip wasn't smooth, and your fonts looked pixelated

It looks beautiful on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Maybe it is optimized for mobile?

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @09:11AM (#6979553)

yes im trying to make it mobile friendly although it is under heavy development. Their is still a long way to go .Thanks for your feedback i appreciate.

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @08:12AM (#6979442)

The "flippage effect" is just an optional feature that people will have option to apply.

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by hamidr on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:42PM (#6980654)

cool :)

I may have found a (kinda) bug; At the last page i was trying to flip to the next page but it grabbed the previous page.

I don't like it but that's my opinion ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:41AM (#6979145)

<clickable> http://www.livelypaper.com

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by natch on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:48AM (#6979164)

You should put up a demo PDF to gain some credibility.

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Re:Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea by ericthegoodking on Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:51AM (#6979176)

Thanks for your feedback, The output will be a HTML5 files produced from converted pdf file.I will put some demo on that page as soon as possible.

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