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by lourot 2891 days ago
I agree: I watched the first 30 seconds of the video and didn't really understand what I was seeing, so I jumped to later points of the video, then I read a bit the landing page and I didn't understand what a pod is, so I jumped to the About page. At this point I was able to understand what you want to solve, but I still didn't get "how", i.e. I still don't really get what the tool is doing.

I'm sure it's great :) But somehow after 1-2 minutes I gave up trying to understand. Other projects often manage to give me a more precise idea in 1-2 minutes. The issue might be on my side though.

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Thanks for the feedback!

I focused on showcasing use cases for each pod in the video but that might have taken away from conveying the overall goal. Pi is intended to act as one hub for all your productivity tasks throughout the day. Is there anything specific you think could help make things clearer?

Let me describe what I see in the first seconds of the video:

- First you open your app which seems to be a popup. It shows "tasks", "tables", "calendars". Fine.

- But suddenly it's gone and you are on a "It's Nice That" article. I don't understand what happened. It's about cycling and your app shows items about cycling. Ok. You click on "+". You type "Morning run".

- But suddenly it's all gone again. You're now typing "The Washing Company". It has nothing to do with cycling, or tasks, or calendars.

And all this happened in only 11 seconds. I don't understand what I saw or what happened. I don't understand what the app does :) It might be a todo-list app, it might be a bookmarking app, it might be kind of a dashboard. I can't tell because each scene lasts only 3 seconds, I need to pause the video to be able to read, and when you're about to do something, it's all gone and it's already the next scene. So I have no chance to see what the app can do :)

And it goes on like that. You're reading something about food. Then you're about to do something and bang, before you actually do it, you're reading something about shoes :)

Ok I see what you're saying. I'll take all of that into consideration. Thanks