Video introducing Nickelpinch, a web-based budgeting tool. Needs feedback!

[tim]

@maiki thanks a lot for all this feedback, it is invaluable to me.

@maiki

First thing: this should probably be between 6 and 30 videos. … I would start with a (long) series of small blog posts explaining these tiny concepts, and getting feedback on them, so you can elaborate as needed, and figure out the way to explain it that resonates with folks.

I totally agree, I’m starting to jot down my post ideas

@maiki

Quick aside: I said aloud that you had made a video for Nicklepinch and someone heard it as “nipple pinch”. So, ya know, there is that.

That is amazing.

@maiki

Second thing about the video, you have other windows and tabs open, one of which has an article referencing the current political happenings; you probably don’t want to send that out. But each of those topics you cover in this video can seriously use their own smaller video, so I’d just go with that.

Definitely. This was a first pass for just this feedback purpose. I really like the idea of those smaller videos.

@maiki

Third, if you want a pitch video, make it pitch, not instructional. Or, show an interaction that demonstrates how useful the software is to use, not the difficulty in setting it up or editing categories; the reason is that all those things will be setup more or less at the beginning and will rarely be changed.

Yeah, that’s a good point. And as to the decision, not options, I agree. I’ve actually cut out a lot of options I had in there originally, because they didn’t really add value, and were unnecessary. There are some other things, like the position of the categories, I really just need to handle via JS dragging and reordering the list, not having the user enter an integer value of the position.

@maiki

I know that is my bias speaking, but I am personally turned off from videos trying to explain how obvious the software is, because it should be.

That is annoying to me too. I didn’t even realize I had done it.

My near-term goals are to write some INSTALL docs, prune the homepage a little, since there is flat out incorrect information in some of the sections. Then start on some blog posts!

The repo is currently on github; but I’m not sure if I want it there forever. I really like gitlab, though I’m worried about link permanence. Maybe that doesn’t matter. I should think on this.

Thanks again, this feedback is really, really helpful. I feel like I am finally moving forward on this, down a good path.