longneckdeer

Joined 14 years ago

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Founder of Ragic Data management that actually works www.ragic.com

jeff at ragic dot com

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Comment · 12 years ago
I think a reasonable follow up question is how did you market your blog posts so successfully?
Comment · 14 years ago
Hi,

1. What browser/OS version are you using? I would like to reproduce this issue.

2. It's in the context menu you mentioned, and in the upper right corner of the form. We should find some way to make it more prominent.

3. The dynamic list views are generated automatically. When you finish designing a form, just click "<< Back Listing" and it will take you to the listing page.

4. We added the "leave this page" warning because a lot of users have mentioned that they accidentally click on the exit button.

5. There's some special feature that we added to the copy and paste function that might confuse new users. I think we need to disable it by default. The feature is mean to match the field names from the source with the field names in the Ragic form, and put values from the source to their corresponding fields.

Really appreciate the feedback, please let me know if there's any other advices. I can be contacted at jeff at ragic dot com

Comment · 14 years ago
We hired a native English speaker to edit most of our copies.
Comment · 14 years ago
I changed to the first suggestion: "Build your database with an online spreadsheet"

We try to make the sentences as short as possible.

Comment · 14 years ago
OK, let's try this for a title.

"Build your database with online spreadsheet"

I've already updated this to the website.

Comment · 14 years ago
Got it. We've put the simple demo and tutorial as a automatically installed application in your account when you registered.

Looks like we need more clear explanation even before the registration. We tried to focus on the benefits of Ragic to encourage registration, but it looks like it's not clear enough "why" our product can bring this benefit.

Comment · 14 years ago
I see. It's freestyle drag and drop after you exit the tutorial. Fixed workflow is only for teaching purpose only.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hi, did you run into some problems in the tutorial? Or because the steps of the tutorial is too complex?
Comment · 14 years ago
Great suggestion. I think Twilio is a great role model for development tools. We'll try to learn a thing or two from it.
Comment · 14 years ago
Yes, we've worked on A LOT of items from the last submission.

The biggest problem was that it's not really easy for people to get started on how to build applications with Ragic. People don't like to read documents, so we added an "Interactive Tutorial".

The interactive tutorial takes new users step by step to build a simple application on Ragic, pretty much like how you do it on a flash game or online game. If you click through the tutorial, you will have built a simple Ragic application. We really hope that this can help our users get the hang of it.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Agree, didn't know I can scroll-wheel to scroll until I saw this comment.

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