After spending a lot of time and effort we are excited to show what we have been working on to the people who matter to us the most - You!
We would love for you to check out what we have done and give your candid feedback so that we can improve upon our work and then release our product to others who may not be as kind to us as you are :-).
Answer to some of the questions you may have:
- What all can I Dock on?
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Right now, we have enabled the system to dockon Images (Upload or from a website) and documents (From your computer) only. Also, you can create quick notes for ready reference too.
In the near future, you will be able to Dock on images, videos, documents, notes, articles, complete webpages and more. - Ok, I got it! But there are many other applications that do the same, some ever better than your app. Why are you even bothering with this?
- Our plans are much bigger than the current application. What we have built till now is the basic platform. Once we have tested and stabilized the platform we will start building the game changing functionality that would allow us to truly fulfill our mission: “Giving people the best way to discover, organize and collaborate on the things that matter to them.”
- How can you achieve this when you don’t even have your mobile site or android/iPhone/Windows 8/ Blackberry application?
- We wanted to be one of the “Mobile first” apps like all the other cool kids out there. But looking at the technical resources we had at our disposal we decided to build the browser app first. Don’t worry, we have strong competence in mobile application design and we are already working towards our first Android app.
- Why do you have Deals and Events? Are you trying to be an eCommerce or events listing site? More importantly, will you be ruining my experience of using this app by putting up un-necessary ads that interfere with what I want to do?
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As a consumer facing startup, we will be shooting ourselves in the foot by doing anything that reduces the quality of experience for our users.
The part of Deals and events came about after a life time of our collective experience and frustration with missing some great deals and events that we wanted to avail. Right now, the way you get notified about the deals and events when you explicitly go about looking for them on the specific websites. Alternatively, you get marketing emails from various sources. Unfortunately, in our experience most of these emails start to feel like spam and slowly but surely you start losing interest. Eventually, you train yourself to ignore them.
Wouldn’t it be cool if the deals and events were woven into your daily affairs in a way that doesn’t interfere with what you are doing yet be available to you whenever you want!
So, incorporating deals and events is our effort to bring them to you in a non-annoying, non-interfering manner. You see Deals and events listed only on your home page and their specific Tabs. So, if you don’t want to see Deals and Events, you can just let them be J and go about your work. - Cool, but why only Deals and Events, why not news, blogs, funny memes, cat videos etc…
- Our goal is to provide the best user experience. Given that we do not know what users might or might not like, we will be monitoring the use of our platform and based upon the user behavior and feedback, we will decide a course of action that benefits our users.
- How do you make money?
- Our intention is to first figure out what works and doesn’t work for our users and gain their confidence and trust. We will work out the monetization details in due course of time. We are exploring several ideas including various combinations of Freemium and ad-supported models.
- Ok, So how are you funding this venture?
- I thought you’d never ask. We have funded the app with our own money till now and are actively looking for investors. So, if you or someone you know might be interested please do let us know.
- Now that I more or less understand where you are coming from, how do you propose I use the App?
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Using the App is super easy. Just Signup with your Facebook, Twitter or email. Then go through the steps we have incorporated to help you get started.
Do not forget to add the Docklet to your bookmarks bar! If you do not see the bookmarks bar on your browser, press CTRL+SHIFT+B.
Then you reach the application home page. You can start browsing and Redock (This will add the content to your own Deck and you will be able to refer back to it easily whenever you want), like or comment on anything that you find interesting. You can also checkout popular and trending content, see what people putting interesting content and check out Deals and Events.
The real benefit of the app comes when you find yourself reading some interesting content on a website or seeing something that you want to refer back to on a website. You simply click the Dockon button on your bookmarks bar. This will open a layout on your current page with images. Click on any of the images and a dialogue will open where you can fill in the relevant information and Click Dockon button. Voila! The app will remember the image and the original link to the site for you. Yes it’s that simple.
You can continue with your work, resting assured that the content relevant to you is now accessible any time you like. - I have encountered an error, what should I do?
- When you encounter an error, which might be frequent at this early stage, please make a note of what you were trying to do and email us at FandF@dockon.us or submit an error report via the Feedback form.
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Known issues
Here is a list of issues we already know about and are working to resolve. -
- After you login using your facebook or twitter account, upon clicking a link/button on the app, you may be redirected to the login page and asked to login again - We know about this issue and are working to figure out a solution. In the meantime you should just log back in and refresh the page. The application should run smoothly from there on.
