@rrhoover That is a very cool landing page!
I've rarely heard the use of audio on a landing page - have you seen anything like this?
It's also interesting how they placed so much emphasis on recruiting for their landing page.
Most companies stick their "jobs" page on a tiny tab at the footer. This is a bold approach.
Uhg. I don't like that landing page for a few reasons:
- I didn't know there was audio, so I watched some without my headphones on, by the time I realized there was audio/put them on I missed most of the content.
- The video has only pause/play control so reloading is the only way to restart it?
- Auto playing video makes me sad.
- Auto playing audio makes me sadder.
- There doesn't seem to be a text description of what it is/how it works.
That being said, it is a super beautiful page, and the actual video is pretty fun.
Similar reactions to @willimholte here. I have a gut reaction against auto-playing video, and even more so with audio.
I was also left wondering what the use cases would be for this. They would do well to have that video include some lo-fi app prototypes that spark imagination. For instance, when Apple launched FaceTime they didn't show 30 abstract seconds of "now you have a 10th way to call your friends". They showed dads on business trips, a long distance relationship on valentine's day, etc, with nothing new to install.
For Fuffr, they might show an easy setup, little kids on a car ride playing Pong on the middle car seat; demoing something at a science fair; scrolling a recipe while cooking raw chicken; some new app not possible with the normal app store. The current demos all left me saying "why would I want that?".
Also, does saying "fuffr" aloud mean anything in Swedish?
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It looks like Leap motion but for iPhone. Would be curious to see if its possible for cover to work not only when its against a surface.
For those interested:
They build a cover that acts as sensor and communicates with the iPhone via Bluetooth LTE[1] with the phone.
So Alex's comparision with leap motion is spot-on correct.
I am kinda "disappointed". I hoped at first that they use the gyro of the iphone to understand where the vibration comes from.
Apart of this growth limitation a very exciting product!
[1] Source: http://docs.fuffr.com/Fuffr_API
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Looks like the kind of technology that Apple would eventually acquire, if it really works that smooth.
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