KyMaLabs adds an all new service, Wormwall, Web pages in a minute(kymalabs.blogspot.com)
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KyMaLabs adds an all new service, Wormwall, Web pages in a minute
http://kymalabs.blogspot.com/2011/06/kymalabs-adds-all-new-service-wormwall.html
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Thanks for the comments!
Some quick responses:
1) Hopefully you were taken to a blank dashboard page with a navigation sidebar for both Momentomail and Wormwall. If not, GAE is probably serving up something wrongly.
2) We're trying for a cute and fun design, any suggestions? Neither of us are designers by any stretch of the imagination and are trying to figure it out as we go.
3) We offer two services right now, one is Momentomail, a simple email scheduling service, the other is Wormwall a simple web publishing service. We're trying to target the internet savvy user, but who may not have much technical know-how. Hip moms, busy granddads, people who want to do things but don't want to futz around with technical mumbo-jumbo.
We want to make these things about as easy, quick and involved as typing an email.
4) If you wouldn't mind letting me know what's broken, I'll check it out. We didn't notice anything broken in testing, but it could just be our machines :)
5) We're still thinking about the best way to present the user's pages. Right now we want people who come to see that it's our service so we can build up some brand awareness, but we'll probably revisit this idea for sure.
6) That's a great suggestion! We have a few directions we're intending to go, and we've been getting some great ideas. I'll throw that in the next development discussion meeting.
7) Our next few development cycles are going to focus on cleaning up the design a bit. One thing that both me and my co-founder don't like is the notion of business=single product, knowing of course that this will drag out development and polish for quite a while. But the advantage is that it gives us more properties to play around with and interesting integration paths between our services to work with.
Momentomail has been doing pretty well, but not quite as well as we'd like. However, there's only so much you can really do with that idea before it starts getting really complicated or we're going to start to have to charge for it -- something we're trying to avoid with our development plan. Some ideas we've received (plugins for Yahoo mail, or browsers, etc.) would effectively cut the users off from the site, and our only source revenue at the moment (ads) -- which is one of several reasons we didn't go the boomerang route.
With Wormwall, we think there's a niche there that's not served by blogs, other simple web page tools, or other services, but we can use to help build company awareness. But admittedly, this is v1.0 of the idea.
Thanks for taking the time to write up your notes though! We appreciate it!
Some quick responses:
1) Hopefully you were taken to a blank dashboard page with a navigation sidebar for both Momentomail and Wormwall. If not, GAE is probably serving up something wrongly.
2) We're trying for a cute and fun design, any suggestions? Neither of us are designers by any stretch of the imagination and are trying to figure it out as we go.
3) We offer two services right now, one is Momentomail, a simple email scheduling service, the other is Wormwall a simple web publishing service. We're trying to target the internet savvy user, but who may not have much technical know-how. Hip moms, busy granddads, people who want to do things but don't want to futz around with technical mumbo-jumbo.
We want to make these things about as easy, quick and involved as typing an email.
4) If you wouldn't mind letting me know what's broken, I'll check it out. We didn't notice anything broken in testing, but it could just be our machines :)
5) We're still thinking about the best way to present the user's pages. Right now we want people who come to see that it's our service so we can build up some brand awareness, but we'll probably revisit this idea for sure.
6) That's a great suggestion! We have a few directions we're intending to go, and we've been getting some great ideas. I'll throw that in the next development discussion meeting.
7) Our next few development cycles are going to focus on cleaning up the design a bit. One thing that both me and my co-founder don't like is the notion of business=single product, knowing of course that this will drag out development and polish for quite a while. But the advantage is that it gives us more properties to play around with and interesting integration paths between our services to work with.
Momentomail has been doing pretty well, but not quite as well as we'd like. However, there's only so much you can really do with that idea before it starts getting really complicated or we're going to start to have to charge for it -- something we're trying to avoid with our development plan. Some ideas we've received (plugins for Yahoo mail, or browsers, etc.) would effectively cut the users off from the site, and our only source revenue at the moment (ads) -- which is one of several reasons we didn't go the boomerang route.
With Wormwall, we think there's a niche there that's not served by blogs, other simple web page tools, or other services, but we can use to help build company awareness. But admittedly, this is v1.0 of the idea.
Thanks for taking the time to write up your notes though! We appreciate it!
BTW, I convinced by co-founder to remove some of the KyMaLabs stuff from the Wormwalls. We still want to keep quite a bit of brand awareness on the pages, but we've removed lots of the unnecessary stuff.
1. I logged in and got taken to some other service ("Momentomail" or something.) Bit confusing.
2. I'm not too keen on the design. The logo seems a bit amateurish to me.
3. I like the concept, but I feel the "Can you type an email?" thing to be misleading. What does email have to do with this, aside from logging in?
4. There were a few broken images on the WYSIWYG editor. Might just be my machine, though.
5. When I create a page, it's published online with your site's wrapper all around it. It'd be nicer if it were just a blank HTML page -- with my content -- and maybe a footnote for KyMaLabs. Again, a bit misleading.
6. I think you could make the email-to-page thing more successful by perhaps doing something like Posterous does -- send an email to create a web page? You could provide a public email address, solicit HTML mail and then host them online. I'd use that.
Keep trying, I'm sure there's promise in this idea :D
EDIT: One more thing. If I were you I'd scrap the whole 'services' thing, drop the KyMaLabs brand and just focus on creating one, rock solid service. Solve a practical problem really well and provide a service that people really need to use. Don't spread yourselves too thin.