jdjohnson

"…suffers from one same key issue as Rdio: the inability to manage non-catalogue music makes it incapable of being an exclusive music player."

This is simply not true. I am an exclusive Rdio user and despite the opinions of the author, their management system does not render it useless as an exclusive music player.

The design and marketing need quite a lot of work. The button on the landing screen should be shown as more of a screenshot of the project rather than what appears to be a demo of how it works. I clicked several of these buttons, including the browser buttons before realizing it wasn't interactive.

Then, while setting up my buttons there is a pop up when you rollover "edit" that reads "click here…" I never found out what it said after "click here," because I would try to click there when it popped up, then it would disappear. This is entirely confusing to have an edit button, then when they try to use it, you distract them with fluff.

Overal the interface needs to be treated with a similar concept as the business. Make it easier and dumb it down, don't try to add playfulness and uniqueness where it isn't needed.

A little bit of info on its creation, here: http://simplebits.com/work/corkd/

I'm curious, what else were you doing over those 10 weeks? Seems that's a lot of time to just sit and wait.