Ask YC: Feedback on my new Template Creation Web App
http://www.widgely.com
Widgely is an online template builder that lets people create, share and use templates to make many different types of document. These can then be downloaded as PDF, embedded into websites or viewed through widgely.com.
The site is in beta, and has been live for a few months now - mainly friends and family testing it while I make changes and add extra features.
I've just released the latest version (PDF download and a "Template Wizard" for creating templates) and was hoping that some people here might be interested in taking a look and posting any feedback they have.
Cheers, thanks for your time :)
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 36.3 ms ] thread- The problem in any idea is how to make it appealing, and in this case how to does the word spread about your web service.
- The public url for sharing their docs will help only if done right, so you should emphasize on making it more usable and visible...
Maybe you should make it possible, these documents to be embedeed in social networking sites and also make it possible to add some images.
- The other thing is user experience, starting from using words people recognize easy.
For example "usa a template" should be "create a new document"
Spreading the word is one of the things I'm trying to work out now. Good point about the public url ... it should be easy to use and remember.
Images can already be added to documents and templates. If a template has an image field, the user can just click it to change to another one. I've created a bunch of custom border, background and decoration images so that there is already some for users to choose from.
I provided the PDF download so that documents could be printed easier than through a browser, with higher quality. I hope that people will care because it does provide a benefit to them ... but perhaps I could say it in a better way on the front page
Sure - I'm working at a 3 letter big tech company, but still, This is 2008, PDF is pretty common.