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by cmarshall 5570 days ago
I think part of the reason that dropbox's video works so well is it shows you how dropbox solves a problem, if they just had a technical demo of how their stuff synchronises files then techies would see it and realise how it was useful, but a person on the street probably wouldn't.

I can see where your app would be good, but I'm a developer and I have friends with English as a second language. If you had a video that showed someone catching up with a person they'd met on a holiday in another country or something similar then I think it'd put the problem you're solving in context better than the demo.

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I like that idea of doing a video, but instead of showing what are the different features of the application, show the problems this solves. Thank you!