The good:
I checked out the tool and seems to work as advertised. Also nice to see Replay browser based on a Firefox fork.
The bad (and this is more your marketing/PR/branding, not product):
- You require an account signup, OK. It's a Google only signup, OK step over that. But it did not clearly mention that you this put me on a mailing list and surely 5 minutes after I signup, I get a random email to support a launch on product hunt.
- With the amount of engineering that went into it, I would expect you to be proud of the craftsmanship and your team. Instead the top of your website states you are proud of getting money from investors. This is more a vote against this trend, than your particular behavior.
- I was able to find the post "How Replay works" [1] which is the actual content addressing your target market. The post conveys 2000 characters of information and uses 4.3MB of data to do that for a signal/noise ratio of 0.04%. It is the type of web obesity [2] that we are used to nowadays, so nothing new. Mentioning this only because you are a web engineering-centric company. Promoting the right values of web performance and engineering attention to detail is IMO important for a product talking to web engineers.
I realize this may come as unpopular/beyond conventional wisdom but getting a different perspective is what HN is good for. Use the feedback at your discretion.
Props for making an innovative product and good luck!
Your comment isn’t off putting for the reasons you gave.
Your post feels smugly opinionated. If that wasn’t your intention, I don’t know what to say. Just look at your first two bullets. Passive aggressive and more.
It seems a lot better now. I just upvoted while before I abstained (while you appeared to be downvoted). I am in a bit of a rush right now so I only read the first two bullets. They both seem good to me now.
Thanks for not taking my comment badly or ignoring it!
I also found out about Orion by looking through your comments!
The good: I checked out the tool and seems to work as advertised. Also nice to see Replay browser based on a Firefox fork.
The bad (and this is more your marketing/PR/branding, not product):
- You require an account signup, OK. It's a Google only signup, OK step over that. But it did not clearly mention that you this put me on a mailing list and surely 5 minutes after I signup, I get a random email to support a launch on product hunt.
- With the amount of engineering that went into it, I would expect you to be proud of the craftsmanship and your team. Instead the top of your website states you are proud of getting money from investors. This is more a vote against this trend, than your particular behavior.
- I was able to find the post "How Replay works" [1] which is the actual content addressing your target market. The post conveys 2000 characters of information and uses 4.3MB of data to do that for a signal/noise ratio of 0.04%. It is the type of web obesity [2] that we are used to nowadays, so nothing new. Mentioning this only because you are a web engineering-centric company. Promoting the right values of web performance and engineering attention to detail is IMO important for a product talking to web engineers.
I realize this may come as unpopular/beyond conventional wisdom but getting a different perspective is what HN is good for. Use the feedback at your discretion.
Props for making an innovative product and good luck!
[1] https://medium.com/replay-io/how-replay-works-5c9c29580c58
[2] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm