I've launched the Gleebeam landing page! 🚀 What do you think?
I would love to hear your feedback! Does it seem clear what the product does? Is the copy readable and does it make sense? Is the first impression good? Please let me know!
I would love to hear your feedback! Does it seem clear what the product does? Is the copy readable and does it make sense? Is the first impression good? Please let me know!
Almost perfection. I understood what it does in under 3 seconds. Clear, concise, clever. Good images. Good copy. The only bit that's missing for me is the question of 'Why'. I understand the basic 'Why' - because it's good to motivate, incentivise, share, celebrate, team feelgood etc. Am I near the mark? But could you go further with your landing page content to share why this adds value to my organisation and what examples you can give from client testimonials / case studies of implementation. I'd love to know metrics. Invest $15 in your product and what can I expect in return, apart from some very funky and cool notifications. Hope this is helpful. Always aim to give constructive feedback. Best, R.
Excellent piece of feedback! You're right about it not having enough information about the benefits of using Gleebeam. I will have to think about including some.
And your guesses are spot on. Not sure even if there's anything I'd add beyond what you mentioned. Gleebeam is about fun and celebration as well as motivation and bringing the team together. Gleebeam should offer something more special than, for instance, receiving a Slack message when a sales deal is closed in the company.
I don't at the moment have any testimonials to include though. My next big step is to validate the product by talking to lots of people about their needs in the context of what Gleebeam does. This is going to be a huge challenge as I'm aware that Gleebeam is not really solving a mission-critical problem for teams. But I'll see what I can do and hopefully learn a lot along the way!
Thanks again for the insightful comment.
My pleasure. I might argue that having a highly-motivated and engaged team in the workplace is definitely mission critical. So that could work in your favour? I guess there is probably some research / case studies out there that look at how well-motivated teams work better, achieve more. There is a company called Perkbox (I have no affiliation with them and have never used it) https://www.perkbox.com/uk and they are all about making life in the workplace better and I guess, so are you? So maybe there are some parallels you can draw from their messaging.
Teams are hard things to manage but when they can share in success together and you create that wonderful feeling of teamwork then it comes to life.
We only have a small team of two people at the moment and we work remotely. I wonder how Gleebeam could work in that context? We get quite excited when someone signs up to try our service at the moment.
Best, R
Thanks for the Perkbox link. I'll have a look!
In its current form, Gleebeam is intended for teams working in offices that have TV dashboards set up on walls. This is so because I got the idea while working in such a team & office, where we automated playback of different sound effects on the TVs for different products we sold.
While making the app, I have, however, begun using Gleebeam for Gleebeam as well! I have notifications set-up for new Mailchimp subscribers and as more of an experiment, I am also posting one random Brian Eno's Oblique Strategy as a notification from a Google Sheets doc every morning. I haven't set it up on a separate screen at home (yet) but it's still cool to open the tab in the browser and find out if there's been any traction on Mailchimp, and the sound effects still work even if the tab is not in focus!
But of course, for you, there's another person working remotely. Currently, the app doesn't support multi-user accounts which sets some limits for how a single account can be used in different locations simultaneously. This would probably be an issue for you unless you'd be fine with using two accounts or using some shared Google account that you have for your business.
In any case, let me know if there are any specific ways you celebrate or would want to celebrate new sign-ups! And I'd also be very happy to receive feedback on the app itself in case you're willing to try it out.
Sure, let's give it a whirl. Will you send me something to click on to make that happen?
Excellent! Just sign in with Google on the website: https://gleebeam.com
Get in touch with me on Twitter or via email once you've had a chance to sign up and check out how it works (my profile here on IH has the contact links). There's currently no onboarding in the app so I'm eager to hear how it will go. We can set up a quick call afterwards to discuss the app or just do it in writing - whichever way you prefer.
Thanks a lot!
ok here goes :-)
Excited to hear your feedback!
Working on it! :-)
The suspense is killing me!
I added a new feature yesterday that might help users share their Gleebeam dashboards with their teammates in situations like yours.
It's called 'Connect TV' and is available under your user dropdown in the upper right corner when you've signed in.
I created it because I received feedback from a potential customer that they need a way to have view-only access to the dashboard on a screen without signing in.
Now that I think about it, perhaps I should give the feature a more generic name!
Great, the animation is nice. Even the "simple" images are totally fine and gives a feeling of simplicity. The side describes the product in an easy way, for me it is absolutly understandable.
Only one information is missing in my opinion. How can i setup the notification on my TV. Is a third party device needed?
Hey, just wanted to let you know that based on your feedback I've written up a short guide for setting up Gleebeam on a TV. It's now available both on the blog and the app's documentation page. Thanks again!
https://blog.gleebeam.com/2019/11/15/how-to-set-up-gleebeam-on-a-tv-screen/
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Great point, I don't currently have a guide for setting Gleebeam up on a TV. Will have to write that up!
Currently, for the MVP, I have assumed that users will have some sort of computer connected to their TVs in the office and will be able to use the web app on them just like on a regular computer.
Some smart TVs have their own web browsers installed on them, of course. It might work on these as well but it depends on what CSS / JS features they support.
Well, what it does is instantly recognizable. That's great.
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The Google SignIn is not really recognizable as a SignIn, either you lift it out more (which I wouldn't do) or you put it away. At the top you have the SignIn.
The pictures are not the bomb but show exactly what is going on. Therefore everything is fine.
Thank you! Why wouldn't you lift the buttons out more? I'm asking because that's exactly what I'm planning to do!
Well, what's your goal?
That's basically your goal. For this, the user must have several things.
One and two is well solved, but three isn't so great. The SignIn is badly recognizable. It looks more like it belongs to the picture. Your problem is now, your focus is very strong on the picture and the white Google SignIn is completely "hidden".
Thanks, I agree completely! This is why I planned to lift out the button more because I think it needs to be in the first fold and it needs to be clearly visible. But you said in your first comment that this is not what you would do, which was what my question was about.
oh sorry. maybe that was misleading. i wouldn't highlight it or change it. I would completely remove it and put it to another place.
That's difficult. Probably right under the picture and centered with
Start your automation now!
Thanks for the clarification! Repositioning the button might work, I'll consider it.
First impression - I understand exactly what it does, the animations are key. The design and copy are good too, nice work!
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Really glad to hear you had a good first impression.
"The suspense is killing me!
I added a new feature yesterday that might help users share their Gleebeam dashboards with their teammates in situations like yours.
It's called 'Connect TV' and is available under your user dropdown in the upper right corner when you've signed in.
I created it because I received feedback from a potential customer that they need a way to have view-only access to the dashboard on a screen without signing in.
Now that I think about it, perhaps I should give the feature a more generic name!"
Great idea! Sorry for keeping you waiting. I emailed you from richard@trykno.com, did you receive it?
I'll checkout Connect TV. That feature does make sense. Maybe the word 'public' could be used? In other tools I've used when something is available without being behind a sign-in it's often referred to as being public.
:-)
ps, the reply thread thing only allows so many so I had to start a new comment.
I did receive it! I'll respond ASAP.
hey no worries, no hurry. Hope it's all helpful.
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Thanks for checking it out, Alex!
I've considered having a photo there instead of the illustration but it seemed like it would be more difficult to make it look decent. I have, however, received similar feedback before so I'll definitely keep this in mind!
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Thanks! You mean like a realistic-looking TV combined with more abstract illustrated elements of an office? Or a separate photo somewhere down the page of how Gleebeam looks in the real world?
I guess these are details and both could work, right? I'll think about it!
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