Great app. It's at the perfect level of advanced and simplicity for the usecase you have mentioned.
I tried my hands on a few things and would like to ask / share feedback:
- Not sure if you're already on it or planning to, but target design/marketing agencies for it first. I know a few and they always have a chaos in their designing apps because they have to tell their team which brand they are designing a particular graphic for, and then find those specific templates, etc. Design process with your app starts from the brand which solves that problem.
- I currently work in a technology consulting firm and we regularly need to make multi-page reports, social media posts in carousal formats, or a series of graphics on the same topic. I noticed that currently your app doesn't support multi-page reports. I tested an A4 size, and did not see an option for social media post to generate more pages. That will be super helpful if you end up targeting individual brands for it later. Not having this could be a deal breaker.
- The design editor is really buggy at the moment. Totally understandable noting that you're at very early stages. But providing and option to "edit" AI designs and then a user really struggling to edit is counter productive. It did what MS word does to design when you try to resize and image and the element actually goes missing. I wasn't able to freely move elements on the page, or when I tried to resize an overlay element, it teleported to another dimension.
Overall, really great initiative and refreshing app. For generic usage like a single page social media post, a poster, or a featured image, this works amazingly well.
Thank you for the feedback, really appreciate this and we've shipped some of your recommendations:
- We've just released carousel / grid posts. Multi-page reports aren't directly supported as PDFs yet, but vertical carousels get you most of the way there. All panels sit on the same canvas in this mode, which allows continuity between different elements (for example: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhHDZQE86J/?img_index=1 )
- We've made some improvements to the design editor since, but there are still some significant issues. We're currently working on further fixes to the design editor to make it more reliable and hope to have a much more polished experience within the next week.
- The agency angle is really interesting and not something we'd deeply explored yet. We're looking at launching a referral program soon so let me know if you'd like to be looped into that given your connections to agencies.
Would love to be looped in and can also work as a design partner if that is something you are looking for. I have been in this space for over 12 years now and have tested dozens of apps. Have worked briefly with Canva's team too back in the days.
People generally don't spend time roaming around within the OS, or standing on desktop screen. I sometimes goes many days before I even lay eyes on my wallpaper. 90% of the time I open my laptop, browser is already open and I get to work.
Widgets are and always were a gimmick. User behavior won't change without a strong need. I don't think anybody need any widget. Nobody will miss them if they are gone.
Not necessarily. I've got a sidebar taking up otherwise unused space on this way-too-wide screen that shows memory usage, CPU usage, network traffic, top processes, hardware temps, and a pile of other useful stuff. It's incredibly useful to be able to glance over and see what's going on under the hood if something appears slow, or hung, or other odd things are happening.
I am currently running a website which is 100% written by AI, publishing about 2 articles every day. It ranks on Google for the keywords I am targeting and the traffic is also increasing (went from 0 to 2000 monthly visit in 6 months).
My content is not mindless however, it is highly specific to R&D folks, coming from annual reports, sustainability filings, and a company's public announcements. It is something not easily found outside but AI is helping me publish things on Scale.
The point is, AI or not AI doesn't really matter if your content fulfils a need, a purpose of your target audience. Google doesn't mind if it brings new value to the table.
This is more of a marketing move than actual negotiation. It's similar to how companies give out first order discounts, or have general coupons for 5% or 10% off.
Just added layer of AI chat to negotiate to engage the users and give a sense of power over the price while there's already a cap at how low the AI can go.
I could not find a direct link to Google account settings to control these. If someone else has any other helpful links to better control these settings, please share.
There's a similar publication in 3D printing too. It's called Joshua Pearce’s Algorithm[0] which covers all the major parameters and components of 3d printing materials and other factors.
It was built with an intention to invalidate 3D printing patents that cover broad elements and general materials and ideas, on the grounds of obviousness.
I tried my hands on a few things and would like to ask / share feedback:
- Not sure if you're already on it or planning to, but target design/marketing agencies for it first. I know a few and they always have a chaos in their designing apps because they have to tell their team which brand they are designing a particular graphic for, and then find those specific templates, etc. Design process with your app starts from the brand which solves that problem.
- I currently work in a technology consulting firm and we regularly need to make multi-page reports, social media posts in carousal formats, or a series of graphics on the same topic. I noticed that currently your app doesn't support multi-page reports. I tested an A4 size, and did not see an option for social media post to generate more pages. That will be super helpful if you end up targeting individual brands for it later. Not having this could be a deal breaker.
- The design editor is really buggy at the moment. Totally understandable noting that you're at very early stages. But providing and option to "edit" AI designs and then a user really struggling to edit is counter productive. It did what MS word does to design when you try to resize and image and the element actually goes missing. I wasn't able to freely move elements on the page, or when I tried to resize an overlay element, it teleported to another dimension.
Overall, really great initiative and refreshing app. For generic usage like a single page social media post, a poster, or a featured image, this works amazingly well.
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