Startups perform best when they focus on making money in one specific way. The model you choose should be based on the economics of the software, for example how much it costs to support additional users.
I am a long-time player and while yes, the client has problems I think it's not AIR's fault. AIR is fine, maybe not perfect but it's not a good enough reason to ditch all the apps that are made with it. It's like saying "I will not browse any website made with PHP".
Would you like me to show you some terrible programs written in JavaScript? Any platform that has programs written for it has bad programs written for it.
It is true that League of Legends players generally think Adobe AIR sucks. It's also true that League of Legends players generally think they deserve to be at least Gold I. In neither case are these beliefs rational.
I'm the project manager for BigBlueButton. Our goal is to provide remote students a high-quality on-line learning experience. Building an open source web conferencing system is no small task, but it is very satisfying.
I noticed in their 'about us' they stated "That’s why we built dozeo". Funny, I thought they built dozeo using BigBlueButton :-).
Ever had a close look at it? It is pretty much a mess tied together with duct tape. I've been sifting through it for a month and finally decided that you cannot use it to build a product on top of that.
You probably redirect based on the first found locale. Most Dutch users browser with an accept language similar to "nl,en-GB;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,en-US;q=0.4".
If you only match on the first ("full") locale and not paying attention to the lower q-valued locales, you might think English is not accepted and you will redirect to your (default?) German site. It's a pretty common bug in locale detection systems (as I designed a few ones myself) :)
i'm with you are on this one as well. i'm tried of seeing these "startup" sites that basically show you nothing of the product yet want you to trust them with your email address. how do i know there is even a product behind this site? this could all be an elaborate attempt at email harvesting a niche group.
Maybe some "startups" using this technique to harvesting email addresses. But in this case, we need the email to inform about the current progress and select future beta users. We know the problem with this kind of landing pages, but this is a good way to proof the concept, acceptance, get feedback and work together with future customers.
...we need the email to inform about the current progress and select future beta users.
So why don't you hint about it in the landing page?
My process was:
1. Open the page
2. Saw "build your own webinar tool"
3. Saw email field
4. Saw join button
and thought: "If I enter my email in this box this will give me access to some kind of personalizable webinar tool, but I don't know if I need this yet", then closed the page.
You need to rework the landing page so the visitor knows what they are doing exactly when they click the "JOIN NOW!" button.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 93.6 ms ] threadUnfortunately the markets for webinars understands the term, therefor it remains alive.
It is true that League of Legends players generally think Adobe AIR sucks. It's also true that League of Legends players generally think they deserve to be at least Gold I. In neither case are these beliefs rational.
I thought the mobile client was built natively (Objective-C) on iOS, but don't quote me on that.
I noticed in their 'about us' they stated "That’s why we built dozeo". Funny, I thought they built dozeo using BigBlueButton :-).
Want to try another demo? We're adding webRTC audio to BigBlueButton. Check out http://webrtc.blindsidenetworks.com/.
If you only match on the first ("full") locale and not paying attention to the lower q-valued locales, you might think English is not accepted and you will redirect to your (default?) German site. It's a pretty common bug in locale detection systems (as I designed a few ones myself) :)
I see this trend far too often.
So why don't you hint about it in the landing page?
My process was:
and thought: "If I enter my email in this box this will give me access to some kind of personalizable webinar tool, but I don't know if I need this yet", then closed the page.You need to rework the landing page so the visitor knows what they are doing exactly when they click the "JOIN NOW!" button.
Everyone is familiar with them
They're reliable and scalable
They're cheap for the presenter to use
They have clients for Mac, PC, iDevices...
I would say that "most people" never used "webinar" software, so everyone doesn't really cut it here.
> They're reliable and scalable
My last experiences where rather on the other side - Hangout often crashes on me and gotomeeting had problems with audio quality.
> They're cheap for the presenter to use
What is cheap, if they don't really work for me?
Also, they mostly are general video calling solutions and rarely geared towards running e.g. a workshop.
> They have clients for Mac, PC, iDevices...
Yep, but there is always a plus to established players.
In general, I think that the whole webinar space still has a lot of ground to cover, so new players are always welcome.
@alex_ka - maybe you should have a talk with them …