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Epoch — Animation tool for easily building and publishing HTML5 ads
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@sether Thanks, Seth! We have been hard at work gathering and analyzing BETA feedback and we're very pleased with the final result.
It looks fantastic! I've been waiting for a tool like this.
Although the price point seems a bit high. If I'm reading correctly, it's $99 billed monthly ($1,188/yr) or $1,020 billed annually ($85/mo). To put that into perspective, I pay $50/mo. for Adobe Creative Cloud ($600/yr). And the Creative Cloud includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.
@stephenchip you bring up a good point. For $50 a month you get access to many Adobe products. One of the problems I see is that Adobe, being a Corporate giant, has to focus on all users rather than specific niche groups. For example Adobe Edge would be the HTML5 animation tool you would get with that $50. While its a good tool for animating, it doesn't focus on users in the ad building world. The file size alone that it outputs is too big to match the specifications of most ad servers/almost 150kb. Ours is 25kb. Thats one of the many examples of things we have built out to specifically enable our customer base.
Between the singular focus on product, and the efficiency this creates for our users in the form of hours saved building ads, we've found our users are okay with paying sub $100 a month for a tool that lets them use their existing skill sets and saves them time.
This is a really great tool. I have used it and it really pushes the envelope in terms of what you SHOULD expect with HTML5. Thrilled to see it launched
Hello, Product Hunters!
I’m Rob, Co-founder & CEO of Adcade, the creative tech startup that built Epoch.
Four years ago, my co-founders and I anticipated the breakup between digital advertising and Flash, and knew it would need to be replaced. So, we set out to build its successor: a tool made specifically for creating rich, interactive HTML5 ads.
We designed Epoch to improve ad-building workflows for designers and developers, making it super easy to design, animate and publish multi-screen ads without worrying about advertising-related nuances (file size, metrics, ad server API’s, etc). You just focus on being creative! Also, if JavaScript is your thing, you can extend and add functionality using Epoch's built in Code Editor.
Epoch is free for 7 days, but we're offering an EXCLUSIVE Product Hunt deal of 50% off your first month when you visit adcade.com/producthunt/ and use code PRODUCTHUNT.
Thanks for checking us out! We'd love to get your feedback. Please feel free to reply to this comment with any questions about Epoch and I'll get back to you right away.
@spinoodle Thank you Nicholas. Very relevant right now with the current shift to HTML5 in advertising.
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