Quote from: NeoEasyCoin on December 27, 2013, 07:14:43 PM

Quote from: coinhuddle on December 27, 2013, 03:58:23 PM

Hello! Long time lurker and new member of the forum. Finally registered due to serious interest in easyco.in and the ZipZap partnership.

Regarding easyco.in specifically, how likely is the December 31st/Jan 1st launch?
As someone involved with Internet business development and strategy, launch dates on holidays, EOD Fridays, over the weekends, beginning of a new year, etc. rarely work out as intended.

What are the web development, design and user experience plans for easyco.in?
I don't intend to be rude, but the Neo sites are not designed very well from either an artistic or user-friendly perspective. Given the stakes and the audience being targeted, easyco.in should reflect a more serious investment in design and UX. Then, in the future, maybe your other products can follow suit.

How soon can an official press release be posted about the partnership with ZipZap?
A Dec 31/January launch date has been posted in multiple locations, including the official updates seen through your Havelock profile. However, I have not seen any official updates from Neo's web portals or ZipZap's website/blog regarding easyco.in's partnership with ZipZap. How soon can we expect to see this?

Thank you for any additional information you can provide.

EDIT:

I want to add that it may be smart to move to a different domain ccTLD/gTLD. Given the recent raids in India, they may decide to confiscate or terminate bitcoin businesses on .in. I understand the .in usage is purely for the clever domain branding, but I don't think it's worth the risk given India's current reaction.

All the best.

Welcome Coinhuddle, absolutely thrilled to see your interest.

1) Save some operational hiccup we haven't spotted yet we expect to be online in at least beta mode by Dec 31st. Our Dev team has been working very hard to multiple deadlines including easyco.in with more than one of the team working xmas day to keep us on track.

2) Sorry to hear you haven't been pleased with the current Neo sites, presumably you mean the shareholders website? We have used a Web designer in the development of easycoin but the UI has been in house. Based on its user demographic a lot more time has been invested in the layout and user experience, hopefully this will show. Based on any feedback we receive we are open to change but I'm confident we have made a great site in easyco.in

3)We are working closely with ZipZap to push this out in the form of an official press release when it suits us both best. So far we ourselves have officially announced it to shareholders via the Neo and Bee thread and to the rest of the Bitcoin community in a thread in service announcements as well as reddit. We will be holding off any mass marketing until we have had a chance to fully test easycoin during the beta period. Although we don't expect any bugs or snags, we are well aware how important the project is and we want it to run like clockwork before we attempt to bring thousands of customers into the equation.

4) Your raise a very good point here. I don't expect that we would be of any interest since we don't run any operations there but the hardline stance of the Indian government certainly doesn't bode well. We are discussing this internally on how best to proceed.

Tom

What an excellent and quick response. Thank you! I will respond in the future with more constructive critiques of design and UX once there's something to comment on!