Exactly my thoughts. I spent about 3 seconds total on the page. Looked around, tried to scroll, then closed the tab. Don't make me play a video to find out what the product or service does.
Seems like a great idea. Small thing - I registered with Facebook and accepted the read permissions, but refused the write permissions (sorry, no apps get write permissions). Instead of saying "ok, we'll just ask again when you actually want to post something to Facebook," Dragdis just dropped me at a screen saying that I absolutely must give write permissions.
That should change. You should ask for write permissions, but if it's refused, ask again when it becomes necessary.
Also, I was asked to agree to your terms and privacy policy...yet couldn't actually view either. When I attempted to register without acceptance, I was told I must accept, but still no indication of what I was actually agreeing to:
'If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:' was mentioned twice. Hurray copy and paste?
Having played with it a bit more: very nice!
I'm particularly impressed with the onboarding. Installing the extension was painless, and the quick tutorial was great.
I really wish there was a non-video summary on the landing page. It looks good, but FWIW here is free data on my 'acquisition funnel': Saw post on HN, opened it and the HN comments each in their own tabs. Got confused at the website not explaining what it is (did not want to watch a video) and closed site tab. Skimmed through the HN comments, saw enthusiasm, reopened site tab. Watched video. Signed up.
edit: Have to say, the post-sign-up onboarding tutorial is REALLY well done!
The landing page is very confusing. I didn't want to watch the video or register just yet, so I spent a good 5 mins trying to drag the buttons on the page, expecting it to be a demo. Didn't work, thought the demo was either broken or it didn't work with my browser. Almost left and gave up before reading the comments here and decided to register and give it a try
same for me : at work youtube ( and social sites as well ) is filtered so I have no way to know what the app (is it an app ?) is for and who is for (smartphones is it ?).
From the HN comments, I can infer it's some kind of neat way to save web-based datas, but I'm still in the dark.
That was when I had the unrealistic expectation that useful services would stay around forever and not get bought out, close shop or pivot into something else.
It was also during a time when I wasn't as apprehensive about sharing lots of personal data with a US company. Nowadays I pass up the opportunity to sign away my data to new players.
This thing needs to be open source and selfhosted...
Another archiving-sharing-reading-later-organizer tool for internet addicts.
I thought it was a good drag and drop javascript library for any DOM element that stored the position on the screen of each movable element and made some calculation for it to be displayed nicely, according to its previous position, later, on other screen sizes, phones and tablets.
You should work some sort of "drag and drop to MediaCrush" thing out. Hosts video, audio, images with minimal BS, and gives you a link to share. Open source and has a great API, too. Disclaimer: I helped make it.
I used to leave my bookmarks sidebar open all the time before I switched to Chrome for performance/dev tool reasons. I was bummed that Chrome didn't have the same functionality, but didn't mind gaining screen real estate. This seems to solve both problems, I think.
Small quibble about the video. This is not hacker-attentional grade. With the sound off, I lose interest when I fail to see content by the 5s mark. (Just some model bouncing around an apartment she could never afford on a model's salary.)
Small quibble about your comment. This product is not made just for hackers so how about we cut them some hacker slack and concentrate on actual praise or critique of the product/implementation?
Cheers
P.S. This would have been great as part of a product I made a couple of years ago. Nice job guys!
Right. If HN is so sensitive to critique that something introduced as a 'small quibble' -- a marketing tip, from someone who has been there -- then you, HN, have jumped at least one shark, and probably several other marine macrofauna.
Ummmm I'll respond to the first part of this comment since I'm not smart enough to understand the reference in the second part.
Your comment was snark disguised as a critique. Remove "This is not hacker-attentional grade" and the stuff about the model bouncing around and something about the affordability of the apartment (maybe you have something against models bouncing around in expensive apartments) -- The rest of your comment actually is a good tip. :)
ok I don't even know what that means. My point was the OP was showing a product and as "hackers" we tend to (should?) give feedback on the product being shown. As a "hacker" I would assume you would take into consideration a marketing video is not targeted towards "hackers" and not fixated on it enough to have a quibble with it. I was wrong. Maybe you're not a product person and would like every product to market itself with hacker grade videos.
I've never been really gotten into Evernote or Pocket, but this had me hooked from the very beginning. So brilliant, yet simple, and thus far the experience has been flawless.
Now I don't want to sound like the guy who said "who needs dropbox when you can use rsync" but I actually just implemented something like this using rsynch and file folders to organize random clippings and notes in a similar way.
So far it's working pretty good. [1]
There is definitely potential for dragdis unfortunately it isn't possible to find out more without signing up which I am not willing to do. Or to login. And I am always concerned about not controlling the host that the data sits on.
[1] Objects are rsynced to a cloud host and they can then be viewed or retrieved from laptop, desktop etc.
I wish this was a mac app instead of a chrome extension. So many things I want to organise don't live on the web. Photos from my iPhone, screenshots I take with my mac, pieces of text I write, etc.
So it says nowhere if this works for something else than a MAC. So I'm not gonna go through the trouble of signing up if I don't know before hands if it's working for windows and if it's free.
Since I'm here to give a real critic I still signed up :)
It's amazing! You should make it clear that it is a browser extension though. And is it backed somewhere or does all my data dies when I reset firefox?
Also I don't really like that I can't browse through what I saved through the sidebar.
Awesome. Even more awesome : integration with trello.
But I'll definitely use it.
Is storage size a concern? I understand that the pictures are actually stored in Dragdis.
Do you guys have folders beyond one level now? I signed up for the beta (?) a while back but stopped using it once I saw folders couldn't be created beyond one level.
You can group folders. Just click + next to your avatar. You can't put stuff to groups itself, but you can gather folders in it, open it, close it, customize it and so on.
I would recommend a "report bug/suggest" feature. Because when I dragged a Flickr image to the folder all I got was a header text on a white background (I think the picture has some restrictions for sharing...). It would be insightful to get these details from your end users.
PS: I like the intro tutorial.
PPS: I hated that I have to give permissions to post publicly to Facebook, or else the sign up process does not go through
This looks beautiful and I can see this becoming indispensable quickly.
I wish you guys did a better job of explaining what your app will do with write permissions to Facebook. I played around with it a bit, and it doesn't look like things I bookmark get posted to my News Feed or anything like that, but I don't know for sure.
It would be nice if this was super clear when signing up.
Soo... what exactly happens with write permissions? :)
It obviously is for the MAC user, who wants one button, one motion for everything and the ability to see under the hood abstracted away. Great product if they make it a bit more transparent as to what is going on and add more customization.
This thing is simply awesome. I've been looking for an easy way to group things I read / discover online, but actual offering seems to only allow URL saving. The possibility to save parts of a Website (quotes (keeping the source), videos, images or anything draggable) is simply awesome and logical.
Thanks for this wonderful tool, I'll definitely use it in the future.
say that I have other drag and drop extension on firefox like QuickDag, it does open link in new tab, google the text, download images... etc.
when I drag a link and drop anywhere besides Dragdis sidebar, then it should fallback to Quickdrag and opne the link in new tab, not just cancel the drop event.
Looks like a promising product! Unfortunately the Safari extension conflicts with other AngularJS apps and even breaks some. For example you can see the error on http://docs.angularjs.org when using the Dragdis extension.
That's exactly what I was looking for - create lists by just dragging including videos. Safari's reading list is cool but I really don't like Safari. Evernote's cool but way too costly to add an item to a list. This one's really simple, really like it.
Would be very nice if we could see that lateral bar by clicking somewhere instead of having to go to the site or something like that. I think it would be great to replace the normal browser bookmarks and I would definitively use. Are you guys thinking on doing this?
This would be extra great if we could integrate it with Evernote.
I already do similar stuff with the Evernote Clipper for saving content, but if I could also share on social networks and do the Evernote clipping in the same workflow it would probably remain installed.
Where can we send feedback and feature requests? I absolutely love this concept, but it's just lacking what I would call essential features to make it really useable. I'm sure you're working hard on it.
Love it! Will supplement or replace evernote since evernote is sooo slow sometimes. Can you drag a subfolder to another group? Doesn't seem that way right now
i have just deleted "twitter and facebook" under "Drag to" folder. and i found no options to get them back. i could only creat a folder but not the app like twitter and facebook?
When my only options are to play a video or "register with" then I always choose the third: close tab.