Hyper Plan v1 launched

[Andy]

Following upon this post from October:

My new product : Hyper Plan

I put out a beta of a new product today: http://www.hyperplan.com It is a lightweight planning tool. It is a bit different from anything else I have seen. I hope it will appeal to the event planners that use PerfectTablePlan (amongst others).I won’t say too much more. See if you can work it out from the website? It is a proof and concept and isn’t polished to commercial software standards. For example, there is no printing, no exporting and not much documentation. And there is plenty that co…

I launched Hyper Plan v1 yesterday and made some sales. Hooray!

I put some more details about the launch here:

Hyper Plan v1 launched

I would love to get some feedback, particularly on the website:
http://www.hyperplan.com
-first impressions
-do you understand what Hyper Plan does?
-does it look OK in your browser?
etc

[markh]

first impressions

You would know it wasn’t designed by designer but it doesn’t look that bad.

do you understand what Hyper Plan does?

Yes, but a little unsure if it would be useful in my workflow. I’m currently using Omni Outliner as a lightweight project management tool - I needed hierarchical lists.

does it look OK in your browser?

It looks fine on Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera on OSX. It could be made responsive so it looks better on smartphones.

Just some thoughts that came to me about the website - the white strip with “Simple Visual Planning Software” looks a little plain, maybe using a fancier font might help. The icons and text below the video look good. I’m wondering would it be better to have the “Start a free trial now” button higher up the page. I found the video a little too long and going into too much detail, I wonder would it be better to show a walk through of a concrete use-case. You describe it as “As simple as sticking notes to a wall, but much more flexible” - I wonder could that idea be shown visually - a collage of post-it notes on a wall and the colour squares of your software. For the colour of links, would it be an idea to use the blue in your logo rather than the default blue?