Nice work! Regarding your application to YC, I'd guess that if this were a past project, and now you were doing something that wasn't this, YC would accept you in a heartbeat. You guys could even be one of the "leave the 'what will you make?' field blank" groups, and get accepted.
But, YC already funded a very similar company. I wonder if they would have reservations about funding a competitor. Perhaps not, given that Zenter has been acquired, but I don't know.
I was going to say that another issue is going head-to-head against Google. But I now don't think that's so much of a problem. Yahoo and Microsoft are going to need their own versions of Powerpoint, and I think they'd totally snap this up.
We have been working on this for the last four months.
It's an online presentations editor that allows a team to edit the same presentation simultaneously.
Feedback is really appreciated.
(We will apply to YC this week).
Very nice work. I tried the editor and was impressed.
+ I love the way the font size changed as I mouseover'd.
+ ALL of the text in the front page graphics looks like its messed up. I guess it was some effect that was supposed to look nice, but it just looks blurry/jagged to me.
+ It wasn't immediate obvious how to "try it".
+ I do not like the fullscreen popup "Try it" link. I would much prefer a new window or just the same window.
+ I created a little presentation and then clicked "Publish" which gave a weird blank window (because I'm not registered I assume). Then I looked elsewhere before finding "Show". Maybe I'm slow, but that was confusing and I almost gave up before seeing what my presentation looked like.
I really, really dislike clicking on the try-it link and getting a fullscreen-ish popup. Someone, somewhere that knows something about design must have a list that includes "Don't change my window size, unless you're a musician."
a preview in the editor looks like a must indeed, for that and other reasons.
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If I'm editing a presentation, switch windows, and go to the presentation list, if I choose one and click edit, the working presentation is automatically saved (gasp) and the editor does not come into focus either (although that might be KDE's focus stealing prevention at work).
1> no obvious demo button to see the tool in action
2> why I gotta register
3> can I upload powerpoints?
That's a review of your web site, not your web application, but that's kind of the point - I didn't get to your application, because your web site is in the way.
Demo, on the home page, using your own tool to pitch me your own tool.
I tend to use desktop apps for this kind of thing, but for on-the-go editing while travelling, or remote presenting, this would be really useful. All my existing presentations are in OpenDocument tho.
Can you put up a few sample presentations that I can just go and view right away? (I guess there will be some under Explore soon). The editor looks very professional and cool but I want to see the end result too.
This one is missing quite a bit of the graphic stuff that Zenter had (but seems to have lost for Google Presentations). Rotations of text and images and browsing of Flickr and Google Images for images with drag and drop. Font handling in Zenter was also awesome to behold. It tried to replicate some of the really hard stuff in PowerPoint, that this one doesn't (yet).
Looks very slick, though. Definitely a contender, particularly if Google Presentations doesn't bring in all of that functionality that we were seeing in Zenter before it got sucked up by Google. The design is nice and clean, too, which is a plus.
Given your username, that's just weird, but I loaded it from Germany, and I got a web page in Spanish. Google correctly loads as google.de, so something must be wrong on your side.
Again i want to stress that you did great work. However as to the concept, your what people call a "me too" company. Alot of other companies doing the same thing at the same time. Yes you are a little bit different ,but not enough that most people will pick over .....google or whoever. If you can figure a way to interact with other service and provide features that they not have that might work.
I don't think the name is all that bad. All the good ones are taken, so you've got to go outside the realm of good spelling to get something even close to appropriate.
But, YC already funded a very similar company. I wonder if they would have reservations about funding a competitor. Perhaps not, given that Zenter has been acquired, but I don't know.
I was going to say that another issue is going head-to-head against Google. But I now don't think that's so much of a problem. Yahoo and Microsoft are going to need their own versions of Powerpoint, and I think they'd totally snap this up.