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nikkie · 02-22-2010, 10:06 PM

It looks useful. The architecture is neat. Integrated conversion is also awesome. Price is probably a fair bit off-range for someone looking for either (a) just lots of disk space or (b) a place to put their books, so you really need to take care that you get your message right. I'm not sure who your intended customer is; though I suspect that the iPhone and iPad folks are perfect candidates. I've always wondered why we didn't design more devices around remote storage...I don't need 64GB on my iPad if I have 400GB remote that I can stream.

I almost plopped down $50 a year to google for 200GB recently, so that I could have a place to store and view my files from the internet. Then I realized I'd have to upload anything but photos by hand, which would be too tedious. That, and only photos would be easy to view and download.

I'm already paying $120 a year for 300GB of generic web hosting (which I'm using for 4 or 5 sites), but they don't allow me to run private daemons (e.g., calibre-server). If they did, I'd be set for stanza. I certainly didn't need 300GB, but it was part and parcel the process.

Werner, your website is doing some good things, but most of the screenshots are too small to depict what is going on in them, and the text too terse to really get an idea of the kind of things Pincette lets you do. I suspect this is a language thing - I recognize the characteristic stiffness and odd diction that comes from translating a site. The videos in the howto section have beautiful reflections, but having more text with each video would help the user decide if they really want to watch it or not. This may be just me, but in general, I almost always eschew videos in favor of text and screenshots, because I prefer to multi-task. I would not watch a video demo unless I absolutely had to.

The features section is a great list, but the low saturation of the website in general damages a customer's level of excitement with the product (and willingness to slog through 20 distinct and complete page loads). You need to put a few more explicit examples on the home page (with bright colors and screenshots) which really explain to your customers why they need your filesystem as opposed to a generic internet backup service, time machine backup, or external hard drive. In general, your site is just too bland to really pull in an interested customer - at least it is for me.

15 yard penalty for unnecessary harshness?

02-22-2010, 10:06 PM	#5
nikkie Guru Posts: 614 Karma: 73700 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: WA, USA Device: Android, Kindle Paperwhite, lots of ancient readers	It looks useful. The architecture is neat. Integrated conversion is also awesome. Price is probably a fair bit off-range for someone looking for either (a) just lots of disk space or (b) a place to put their books, so you really need to take care that you get your message right. I'm not sure who your intended customer is; though I suspect that the iPhone and iPad folks are perfect candidates. I've always wondered why we didn't design more devices around remote storage...I don't need 64GB on my iPad if I have 400GB remote that I can stream. I almost plopped down $50 a year to google for 200GB recently, so that I could have a place to store and view my files from the internet. Then I realized I'd have to upload anything but photos by hand, which would be too tedious. That, and only photos would be easy to view and download. I'm already paying $120 a year for 300GB of generic web hosting (which I'm using for 4 or 5 sites), but they don't allow me to run private daemons (e.g., calibre-server). If they did, I'd be set for stanza. I certainly didn't need 300GB, but it was part and parcel the process. Werner, your website is doing some good things, but most of the screenshots are too small to depict what is going on in them, and the text too terse to really get an idea of the kind of things Pincette lets you do. I suspect this is a language thing - I recognize the characteristic stiffness and odd diction that comes from translating a site. The videos in the howto section have beautiful reflections, but having more text with each video would help the user decide if they really want to watch it or not. This may be just me, but in general, I almost always eschew videos in favor of text and screenshots, because I prefer to multi-task. I would not watch a video demo unless I absolutely had to. The features section is a great list, but the low saturation of the website in general damages a customer's level of excitement with the product (and willingness to slog through 20 distinct and complete page loads). You need to put a few more explicit examples on the home page (with bright colors and screenshots) which really explain to your customers why they need your filesystem as opposed to a generic internet backup service, time machine backup, or external hard drive. In general, your site is just too bland to really pull in an interested customer - at least it is for me. 15 yard penalty for unnecessary harshness?