I posted about ChronoFlo six months ago. And got no response from the community. Since then, I have added a ton of new features, including hand-drawn style timelines using RoughJS:
Looks beautiful with a lot of attention for detail. Well done.
To me the dark theme with stars makes me think of space, horoscopes, fortune telling. Not sure if that is good.
All though I like it, I cannot think of a use case. Maybe you should give visitors more suggestions on how to use it. And something to get me started quickly. Maybe add a button prominently to select something I could have, like a calender (I noticed from the faq that you can import ical and rss). Or maybe by giving me a link to some interesting public rss feed. Add a long list of public time based rss feeds with import buttons?
i think being able to quickly get started with something even mildly useful is now missing. You have to think more about connecting / importing existing time based (or maybe not even that) content. The customization comes later, as a next step, once I have something that I like.
How about git repos? Make it look interesting so people want to embed on github. Good publicity :-)
It looks neat, but seems really niche. I'm not sure there is a market for such tool. I could see it used in education, but I'm not sure that teachers/schools would want to pay subscription for this.
Thanks for taking the time to offer feedback. It is definitely niche-ish. I don't expect this to turn into a billion dollar company. But a few thousand or so paying customers would be nice!
I am thinking the following markets:
1. Company history timelines (for company's celebrating an anniversary)
2. Educational timelines for use in schools and universities
3. News timelines created by journalists covering a major new event
4. Legal timelines
5. Personal timelines
2. Educational timelines - might be worth looking at curriculum for different age levels and offer pre-built timelines for various subject matter (with links to wikipedia perhaps) for each of the timeline events that can be offered to schools.
More info about hand-drawn-style timelines here: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...
Here's a timeline we created about US presidents: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...
I am the creator of this. Would love to know what you all think?