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The demo is pretty clunky w/ all the views in separate frames, and I'd prefer a full working demo w/o entering an email address. It doesn't concisely make clear what it is & how it's different from other offerings, like others mentioned. A point-by-point comparison vs Google Docs might help. Or emphasizing that the direction you're taking it and the way you're asking for user feedback is just completely different from the way Google would ever do things. Hard to do w/o negative messaging but currently doesn't leave one feeling confident that it's a great idea to start using it as a collaboration tool on a serious project.

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You can click out of the frames to a full working demo without an email.

I am optimizing for communication with potential users not conversion to paying customers at this point in time.

All the testing we have done shows that people only 'get' it when they see the three views together.

The direction that we are going in is a spreadsheet that supports team collaboration - is that too vague or is it not coming across clearly enough?

A definition of "team collaboration" would be good. Again, Google Docs has team collaboration, but I assume you mean something more, or more specific. E.g. does it have per-cell ownership? Like person A controls their numbers in column A, and person B controls their numbers in column B, etc. Are permissions more granular? Is access easier, by obscure URL instead of username/password? What sets it apart from other team collaboration spreadsheet offerings?

Its 2 part permissions: * pages * views

So I can see: * a page as spreadsheet view (change everything) * a page as a wiki page view (only change cells that have been wikied) * a page as a webpage view (change nothing)

Toggling between them is one-click.

Access is by e-mail sign-up.

"only change cells that have been wikied" - this seems like a core strength, is "wiki" the most intuitive way to refer to cell-level permissions? I would not have concluded this meaning from the work wiki.

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