Ask HN: Please provide feedback on my idea

4 pointsby ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren10 comments

I am starting a small saas side project that seeks to help magazine/catalog/newsletter publishers engage and retain their readers .The project seeks to make it easy for the publishers add interactive elements such as (videos, slideshows and hot spots) to their pdf publications . I know that its not easy , what i am looking for is for feedback on the idea as well as any advise you might have (especially if you are a publisher in the industry ). For those who might be interested I have created a launch site http://www.livelypaper.com [Update] An incomplete demo is here

http://livelypaper.com/demo

3 comments

ahqureshvor 13 Jahren

I think this is neat idea, especially if there was a way to ab test and collect data. I agree with natch in that you should put up a demo, though.

ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren

http://livelypaper.com/demo/ . This is just flippage effect, Interactive elements are coming soon!

pedalpetevor 13 Jahren

Personally, I'd stay away from the 'flippage effect' unless it is done strikingly well. On my Mac, your page flip wasn't smooth, and your fonts looked pixelated.

As design moves away from skeumorphism and imitating real world objects, page flips will start to look passe. Just my 2 cents.

byoung2vor 13 Jahren

On my Mac, your page flip wasn't smooth, and your fonts looked pixelated

It looks beautiful on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Maybe it is optimized for mobile?

ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren

yes im trying to make it mobile friendly although it is under heavy development. Their is still a long way to go .Thanks for your feedback i appreciate.

ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren

The "flippage effect" is just an optional feature that people will have option to apply.

hamidrvor 13 Jahren

cool :)

I may have found a (kinda) bug; At the last page i was trying to flip to the next page but it grabbed the previous page.

I don't like it but that's my opinion ;)

ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren

<clickable> http://www.livelypaper.com

natchvor 13 Jahren

You should put up a demo PDF to gain some credibility.

ericthegoodkingvor 13 Jahren

Thanks for your feedback, The output will be a HTML5 files produced from converted pdf file.I will put some demo on that page as soon as possible.