The Juwo dude needs to be able to explain his service with a simple phrase. For instance, "Scribd, youtube for documents". Because I have problems figuring out what its about. I also think he needs a web designer to help him out.
Update: Sorry, I just checked out the site. I guess he has a phrase now.
Yeah, and then he needs to test his site in Firefox. And then he needs to get rid of the "Donate $5" link. And then he needs to drop his dependency on ActiveX _AND_ Java. And then...
A very bad idea. I was shortly in the commercial software market, and nobody pays $5. It's too small to make it worth the bother of bringing out your credit card. Price $20 or above, else you won't have sales.
Here is my business model:
NP will have two versions: The Editor and the Viewer. This is similar to Adobe Acrobat, which has the Publisher and the Reader. The Editor is full featured. For business users, a license fee of $150 will be charged for the Editor. It will not display advertisements.The Viewer has restricted functionality. It cannot create, nor add to the juwo indexes. It can only annotate or enrich existing indexes and share them.
The Viewer is free. It will carry advertisements that will be served dynamically on the landing page by a 3rd party advertisement server. Home users can upgrade the Viewer to the Editor for an online payment of $5. However it will still show advertisements.
Revenues are from three tracks:
License fee (free)
Consumer paying to upgrade from Viewer to Editor.
Banner advertisements ( e.g. Google Adsense)
Revenues per AV site = license fee + number of AV downloads percent upgrading to editor upgrade fee + revenue from banner advt.
see VC Fred Wilson's blog for calculation of banner advt. revenues for youtube.com which had 100M downloads per day and 19.8M unique visitors in June 2006. ($420K per day, 660K unique)
for a site with a free juwo license and only 1% of youtube's traffic. i.e. 1 million downloads
with only 1% upgrading, can potentially make $1.65M per year.
Unfortunately, right now all that is simply castles in the air.
And then he needs to stop using the "My First Webpage" style of links, "Click here", "Click here", "Click here". And then he needs to demote "(Note: No warranties nor liability, express or implied)." from being a banner headline. And then he needs to...
And perhaps remove the religious info from the "Company" page (http://juwo.com/company.html) -- it strikes me as unprofessional and out of place. You're entitled to your beliefs, but I can't see what you have to gain by advertising them on your corporate home page. Religion is a sensitive topic, and getting people to use your software is hard enough without offending them first.
I promised God that when I started working on juwo it would be used for His glory and for my profit, and He gave me the subsequent ideas to make it stronger. So I am going to keep my end of the deal.
Listen, I've probably spent more time looking at your website than 99 percent of the people who've clicked on it. Try to understand this:
_I still haven't the first clue what it is you're selling_
Okay? The reason no one is playing with the demos is because the website itself is like unto cerberus the dog of hell, protecting the product from all who draw near.
Have ONE main webpage. Have this contain:
2-3 sentences that explain what the product does, and a use case. Example:
"auto-ebay-1000 is a tool to automate routine tasks performed by ebay sellers. If you have 50 items to sell, auto-ebay-1000 can upload them to ebay, track them, and alert you to bids"
Then have three links:
1) screen shots
2) Demo
3) How to buy
Look at a quasi use case that you have:
Do you feel, Thoughts and ideas come to me at awkward times, unexpected places and not in neat order. I really wish there was an easier way for me to capture them".
...okay. The solution to that "problem" is: Pen and paper. Or a voice recorder. Is Juwo a voice recorder? Okay, fine: But an "unexpected place" is presumably one where I'm not at my computer. See? Your use case doesn't fit.
The problem is, juwo is a new concept.
Also it can do about 5-8 different things.
So there are about 13 use cases with demos listed.
How can I simplify further?
I have tried my best.
I would like to discuss further your points.
0) Do you see the links to the screenshots? I didnt want to list them in the main page because
that's another 300K in 3 images. Plus they take up a lot of space.
1) Pen and paper
"There are problems with voice recorder, writing, and typing" (
http://juwo.com/details.html#Record)
problem with writing? you cant get it into the computer.
"Your use case doesn't fit"
When juwo is ported to a PDA, it will.
No. The problem isn't that juwo is a "new concept." In my opinion, your response to the previous post is demonstrative of your problem:
He said: "I don't understand what your product is."
You said: "juwo has X functionalities and Y use cases."
You didn't say: "juwo is a product that solves __(problem)__ for __(audience)__ by __(10 words max describing functionality)__."
_That_ is what people want to know when they ask about your product. _That_ is what needs to be on your home page, not 13 use cases and 300k of screenshots. For a product to be successful, it has to have a purpose. It has to solve a problem that somebody has.
I've been following your threads on news.yc for weeks, and I still have no idea whether your product has an actual purpose or is a useless collection of features. If the former, you need to do a much better job of communicating this to people. Otherwise, it's time to revisit the idea. Nobody's interested in a pile of useless features. And if you don't believe me, perhaps I could interest you in my tax prep software which organizes your photos and generates source code for text-based adventure games for the TI-83...
juwo solves 3 problems - by allowing you to create, play, distribute, add to, share lists of snippets. Rather than state what the problems are, I simply created the demos to show what it can do.
I am trying to get students in the dental school to use it - several carry laptops to class. They can juwo lectures.
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The problem is - to get it to work offline using flash, I must use apollo. It may come with the same problems that Java Web Start did - only, we dont know them yet.
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Any of you guys on this page want to join me in working on juwo?
"We will also share revenues with anyone who can help us by implementing improvements ...
Fair Notice: There is no guarantee that revenues will be generated. Many internet companies never generate revenue."
I suggest that Juwo should try to gain traction first before even thinking about a revenue sharing model with their users.
SEO, post comments on blogs dealing with your target market, make your link the signature of your emails, write a blog, exchange links and ads with another site. Put up an open source version an Sourceforge.net or other open source repositories, post a version on download.com etc.
Yes, I believe that what Juwo does is allow you to tag times in an audio or video file... he always said he was somehow different from the competitors but I was even more unclear on that.
juwo can annotate with Text, voice, audio, video, links and documents.
Other reasons:
2) Veotag has a subset of juwos functionality.
3) Veotag is tied to a single AV clip.
4) It cannot be used outside of broadcasts.
5) Not a standalone productivity tool.
6) Limited privacy.
7) Can veotag Share and edit indexes
and annotations in a community? Limited. Share link to index. No concept of overlay.
8) Can veotag have Multiple uses for application? Not now. (skip to important parts of a single clip and see titles and notes)
So juwo is better than veotag, yet veotag has 750 k.
You need to take a page out of their book and communicate that better, otherwise you're going to be stuck here forever.
BTW, if people in this crowd (alpha geeks, generally smarter than your average bear) don't get it, you are really going to have trouble reaching out to a wider audience.
I think the main difference is that Veotag is a web application. They host the videos online and you can browse them like Youtube.
While your product has more functionality, it's difficult to get running because it requires Java. I think the social or "Web 2.0" aspects of Veotag makes it somewhat more useful.
As soon as juwo can control Flash player, I plan to create a Best Of Youtube website, where people can juwo videos on youtube, and share them. Please look at the Heather's blog American Idol demo.
My headline got magically changed... it was originally "Juwo competitor gets 750k investment." It made a lot more sense to the community than the current headline.
