Looking for early users to try my app
Hello tilderinos,
I'd like to launch my tab manager soon and to ensure a smooth launch, I'm looking for early users who would be willing to try my app as part of the private beta.
For those who would actually need this product, I'm happy to offer one year free (or more!), but even if you don't need it, I'd really appreciate the help.
I don't really need anything fancy, I'd just like to have some people install the app and try it to know if it works properly for them or if any unexpected issues come up, especially major ones. I'd like to make sure that the actual launch will be smooth, especially considering that I've been working on this project for four years now. It'd be a shame if it all went to waste.
Thanks a lot in advance!
PS - I wasn't sure in which group to post
Can't try it because I'm not using Chrome, but I can't see how it's different from what Zen Browser or extensions like Sidebery offer.
I don't mean to say your product is useless or has no advantage over existing ones—I'm sure it does. But your website doesn't explain it, and when you're offering a subscription-based product in a niche with existing open source offerings, I think it's very important to clearly explain on the front page how yout solution is better.
Fair enough, I totally agree. I initially started this project to answer a personal need, the desire to monetize it came a long time after that. At the time, Zen Browser didn't exist and I only discovered it recently. As for Sidebery, it isn't available on Chrome.
Regarding the advantages, one is that my extension continuously synchronizes your tabs and bookmarks, making it easy to switch from a bookmark to a tab and vice versa. This means you don't have to save your tabs at the end of the day, they're already saved and categorized as bookmarks in folders. This way, you don't end up with multiple folders for session 1, session 2, session 3, ... which would have a lot of duplicates in common, while some bookmarks are only in some folders, and not necessarily the last one. With my app, you always have a single up-to-date snapshot of your bookmarks. No duplication like that.
There's other things too, workflows become almost friction-less. Need to save an entire subtree of folders and tabs? It's only one click. All your tabs? Also one click. No need to go through menus. People don't save their tabs as bookmarks because of that friction, but here, the friction is gone. So you can turn off your computer instead of keeping it on for years. And when it crashes, your tabs are saved as bookmarks, so you're less likely to lose them.
You can also easily save tabs for later. So you don't have 50 tabs at any time, but you can save 45 of them in one click and reopen them later, when you actually need them. You just keep the remaining 5 open, because you need them now. And again, it's just one click, no need to hop through menus.
With the folders, you can break down big tasks into smaller ones, the medium into small ones, etc.
Another big one is that you can focus on one task at a time, by displaying only a current folder. This means you don't have to navigate numerous tabs/bookmarks as it can quickly get crowded. You just see what you need.
At first glance, Zen and Sidebery don't seem to offer these advantages, but I haven't played with them enough to know for sure.
Not to mention that I have other plans for the app in the future. I'd like to make it more than a tab manager and add a social component to it, where one can share collections of bookmarks with others, etc.
I’d give it a shot if it were Firefox.
Hi, thanks a lot. I'd like to support Firefox in the near future, but I'll need to make a few changes here and there.