I'm thinking of creating a new product called DocsOcean. I've got a simple landing page put together, and would love some early feedback on the idea, page, branding, pitch, etc.
Here's the link: http://docsocean.webflow.io/
Please take a look at let me know.
I'm planning on putting it up on Betalist, ProductHunt upcoming, and other communities to see if I get any traction emails / traction on the idea.
Thanks!
This would be pretty awesome. I'm curious how you aggregate and search through everything? Do users connect their relevant accounts and you store everything in a DB and search through that?
Also, noticed you're from Vancouver, that's awesome! I'm living in Vancouver as well, working on https://jobeir.com in my spare time :)
yep, exactly.
Jobeir looks really good! nice work!
Congrats on shipping!
Two things stand out to me:
1 - Copywriting
Don't let your reader get past the headline and wonder "wait, is this for me?" Better than "explaining" the product, try writing a headline (or headline options) that call out the pain it calls directly.
For example, in the discussion below, I think you said it quite nicely: "There's no real consensus on where specific types of documentation should live so it ends up all over the place."
That's going to get the attention of anyone who has felt that problem, and make them want to know more.
2 - Security
I'm not a security nut by any means, but how does someone know they can trust you with access to internal documentation? Are you storing data? What can you do to ease concerns about giving up the keys to our kingdom?
Thanks for responding, this is great advice.
Honestly, the second point is something I've been thinking about a lot. It almost feels like a show stopper for me. I know gaining trust of enterprise companies will be very challenging as a bootstrapped startup. I was thinking of offering a self hosted solution, that could be deployed using terraform into AWS or GCP.
It’s definitely an objection but you also don’t need to sell to giant enterprise companies which legal and compliance teams.
What I would be asking yourself: is the person with this pain the person with the credit card?
Hi,
I like the idea, it work for all type of companies/projects,
About your landing page here some tips you can add/adjust:
Best of luck !
A really great idea, and I think there could be a good business opportunity here!
There are two things coming to my mind. The first is the logo. I would prefer it was a bit more in the left corner.
The other thing is your tagline, I find it a bit long. I would put it instead of this "Freedom to use the right tool for the job,
without sacrificing discoverability." And then make a shorter tagline to the top. Maybe something like "All your documents in one place."
This is a great idea! It's amazing how so much time is wasted trying to find relevant information within even a single small company.
Are you planning on having saved searches?
Critiques on the landing page:
Changed the name to Snapquery? Thoughts?
Still doesn't really give an immediate image of team documentation searching.
Some suggestions:
Thanks for the response! This is super helpful and I'm glad you think it's a good idea!
Yes, planning on having search history and factoring it into the ranking system.
Yeah, I agree, maybe I'll add back the menu at the top right and link to something...
Good point, maybe I'll try and think of something else... maybe teamquery.com
Another great point, I'll move the second one up and scrap the first one.
I like it, the place I work has various integrations going on for docs (split somewhere between hipchat, google docs and AWS) - this would be super handy.
Yeah, my company is in the same boat. There's no real consensus on where specific types of documentation should live so it ends up all over the place.
Some critique for the website - I <3 the gif, but it happens really fast - I didnt actually work out what was being searched for until I scrolled down, read the info and then went back up to watch the animation. I think it is because I didnt have time to process the various logos being searched before the next keyword :)
Yeah, I might just let it play through once instead of looping and have it stop on a frame that has search results.
This is a great idea. How's it going on building it?