Great software, solid team and a really useful service. In the current climate, this is surprisingly undervalued at $700mn.
One of those 'penalties' for being based out of the States, I guess.
Just dropped you a line. Thanks.
At the risk of arguing with you, I am surprised you thought we argued in the previous comment reply. We thought SHOwnsYou was quite thoughtful in his feedback and had gone through the app. And the response was meant to be thoughtful as well. We genuinely found it useful and tried to emote that.
Just read it again and it still didn't read as argumentative.
I am not sure what the line in the sand is, just say 'thank you' I guess. :)
Thank you.
"There isn't much point to casually browsing the site right now" - Correct, we just came out of private beta, so the amount of data we have and what we have done to visualize it is quite nascent.
Deeper insight - This is our biggest focus right now. People do have a way to comment via the 'Add Update' button on their posts. But most of our testers right now do this via the API so they aren't doing more than maintaining their lists.
Face - Fun! I can share some conversion numbers on this. It almost doubled. Especially the silly ones like the bird and the ManBat :P kinda help to lighten the tone.
Login/Register - There's a big bold button to register once you post your first symptom. And there's a less prominent login/register icon before you post.
Design - Thank you, but even as you saw there's so much more to do especially in the way of onboarding.
Best for Last - Problem -> Solution or Solution -> Problem. There are 3 use cases this makes a ton of sense for. And we have to work hard to demo them as soon as you come in! One of them is that when you and your girlfriend are busy, how can you track each other's issues and get the casual help you may need without taking a break from work or leaving the comfort of your couch.
Thank you for giving it a whirl and very useful feedback!
Docs - http://docs.instawellapiv1.apiary.io/
Blog - http://blog.instawell.com/post/53509254012/public-api
My co-founder & I wanted to log our health ups and downs, with each other, with strangers dealing with similar problems & maybe even with medical professionals. We are very proud to share our brand new service - Instawell.Instawell is an anonymous public network for sharing health issues and connecting with doctors.You post an issue, track it, update it, and get simple feedback. You can...
e.g. - you want to discover the 'right' kind of people to follow, as to have better or more entertaining or more useful or _____________ information. What is 'right' for you may not be 'right' for me, since our goals most likely aren't the same.
I love Naveen's idea (and more importantly his implemention) & will be playing with it a bit more this weekend. But, the value may not be apparent right away.
Aggregating and mining one type of data across a relationship may be more valuable. It may be that I have to track a similar set of data for myself and my significant other to make sense of the aggregates.
I have never had a chance to use it with a bigger team but at that size they have abysmal state management - if you have more than 1 conversation && use more than 1 device = notification_hell. Its just silly how badly they manage this stuff.
Just discovered Hall earlier today and so far, so good! Good job @bretthellman & team.
How do you see this space moving forward? I wonder if there are a lot of 'nice-to-have' and not enough 'must-have' apps, if any at all.
Great loss to #startupville & the LA Scene.
Launchpad is way smoother imho.
Would be awesome to have a Mail.app-like link previewer in an overlay.
'nuff said!
Thank you for not trying to dumb down the UX with an 'easy to use' UI. It's clearly an 'easy to learn' UI and I can't wait to get that invite.
I am guilty of having thought "I write based on how it sounds to me!".