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Sssh, we’re launching

Fred Oliveira on March 8, 2007,

If you subscribe to this blog, you’re getting the news early. We’re slowly pushing the latest updates to the online servers, and will be launching very soon - and we don’t mean in a few weeks, but in a few days (or hours!). We already had a few people sign-up for our plans, and their feedback (and the feedback of the thousands of people that were in the beta) has been crucial to help us launch this product.

So before we do a final and official announcement (with all the bang of opening bottles and stress testing), we want to thank everyone that helped out in the past, and our first official paying users - you people rock.

We also launched the new Goplan homepage at www.goplan.info (goplan.org is for the live application servers) - have a look, and do tell us what you think about it. We said it several times in the past, but your opinions are one of our most valuable assets - and we listen to what you have to say, so either comment here or email us - we’re listening.

Now hold on tight for the next day or so as we do the very final tweaks and declare the product “launched”. We’ll also do a series of posts about the process behind building and launching Goplan was, and want to do a couple of videos highlighting how to best use some of our features. Stay tuned.

Bojhan Somers

Did anyone ever mentiond that the white text color on light-green background is very hard to see on a LFT screen with its brightness up a bit? (Our feature-set and pricing information)

And the Features list, doesnt really look like a list. Witch makes it less scannable for the reader. And the image of Goplan a thumbmail of a screenshot I suppose? At first hunch I thought it was a thumbmail of more screenshots I could browse trough, but suprised to see it wasnt even a link to any screenshot at all?

I hope the new homepage is able to bring more people towards your product, but I do feel kind of an overload of information on the homepage by all the text that I believe could be said simpler, and with less.

Goodluck!

Fred Oliveira

Some good points, thanks for commenting - Although I don’t agree with the information “overload” (tts under 400 words), we will update the page with screenshots soon.

As for the brightness note, my best piece of advice would be to calibrate your display if you are doing design, because the “brightness up a bit” thing may reduce the total amount of displayed colors to around 60% of the full color spectrum of your screen. That doesn’t mean white on green is a good combination (that’s out of the scope of my comment), but it definitely is readable on screens with proper contrast settings. Now, the application’s color scheme is, though, something we’re going to change very soon.

Bojhan Somers

Thanks, I understand you dont agree with the information overload and I think visitors can see you put time into reducing the information to its essentials. There are parts in the text, that I believe could be said with allot less.

always-on access-anywhere (Online)
online real-time chat (real-time chat)
The current solutions out there (Other solutions)
How much does it cost? (Costs?)

But ofcourse this is all in the eye of the beholder, so you might not agree with me here. I see information overload as text that I cant scan trough in 3 seconds and that looks to much of a marketing text.

A small thing I just saw, iCal. Maby also give it an abbr like SSL, ACL because I dont think everyone knows what it is?

Something to say?