It looks like Staply solves a problem, but I don't know what that problem is. In your footer next to the copyright you have "We want to see a world where information is never lost or forgotten." -- is this the problem you're solving? Keeping track of information?
The screenshot hints at a sort of shared folder space for placing things for design review and comments.
I would suggest adding a section above "Take a new approach" that tells me the problem I already have before telling me how Staply fixes it.
Where you say "Private" and mention SSL, I think this is really bare-bones privacy. That's more like "Secure" to me. Privacy implies that you wouldn't sell my data, that you would store it encrypted on your servers, and that your servers are secure. It's more than just the transport layer.
1) on the pricing page it states: "It means that you will be only able to access all the messages, files and links sent earlier than one month ago. Basically you will be able to access the data sent latest 30 days ago." - This needs cleaning up.
"It means that you will be able to access all the messages, files and links sent in the last 30 days." would read better. As it is written it sounds like I can access history 2 months ago but not 5 days ago.
2) Lose the По-русски unless they are in a Russian speaking part of the world. I hate to say it, but you will lose customers in the US. There is a certain amount of xenophobia here, as well as the nationalistic "american exceptionalism", and other media fed concerns about Russian hackers stealing identities etc..
There's a typo in your "Take a new approach" panel. The URL in the image says techcrunch.com/stapy-files-for-ipo. I think you want it to say techcrunch.com/staply-files-for-ipo.
I agree with the other comments suggesting that it is not 100% clear why someone should sign up (from the landing page alone, at least). I think that a panel focusing on some of the use cases (that you've nicely identified on this HN thread) might make your service clearer, and help motivate more users to sign up.
I must say you are really attentive :) Thank you very much. We are definitely going to include one more section with use cases, thanks to feedback in this thread.
1 ) Perhaps this sounds better.
Simple group folders for all
instead
Simple group folders for everyone
2 ) I agree with ErikRogneby. Lost the Russian from there. It doesn't fit there nicely.
Perhaps add flags to the bottom instead of other languages.
3 ) The top should not be hidden and only visible when going to the top.
hide it when scrolling down and show it when scroll it up.
Or simply show it always.
I still haven't figured out exactly what you are trying to solve.
Is that screenshot the site itself? At first I thought I was seeing some chat app, so Staply must be some sort of browser plugin to connect it all together.
Basically, it looks like Staply is kind of a chat room app with file sharing as part of it. Or not? I was kind of confused.
Basically we are building a very open platform where you can invite anyone, for example one of use cases would be if you are organizing an event with lots of speakers and you need to collect their presentations and answer all their question regarding the timetable etc. Kind of like a shared folder+small Q&A, where all data is seemlessly organized so that you would know for sure which version of the presentation is the latest one for example.
I agree that the usecase is not coming up properly. Additionally, I would prefer a "constant" value proposition rather than for so many stakeholders such as students, freelancers etc. If the usecase is generic, would prefer a generic statement.
The screenshot hints at a sort of shared folder space for placing things for design review and comments.
I would suggest adding a section above "Take a new approach" that tells me the problem I already have before telling me how Staply fixes it.
Where you say "Private" and mention SSL, I think this is really bare-bones privacy. That's more like "Secure" to me. Privacy implies that you wouldn't sell my data, that you would store it encrypted on your servers, and that your servers are secure. It's more than just the transport layer.