For anyone whose ever worked a day in their life, you know that getting the right feedback and approval from the right people can be an enourmous pain. This pain is then worsened when revision after revision has to be made by multiple people, and often revisions are revisions of someone elses revisions and so forth.
Backboard essentially solves this problem, or at least, will cause a few less headaches. A "backboard" is a landing page, a unique URL (with optional password protection), that displays a graphic, website, or block of text, and allows for people to leave and track comments as well as "approve" of whatever the backboard is centered around.
It's as simple as that really. The only thing you get for having a paid account is the ability to have a backboard be "invite only", using email as a way of verifying whether or not a user can leave feedback. Feature comparison here.
Have a look at the walkthrough:
| Does the app fulfill its intended purpose? | 9 |
| How clean and simplistic is the UI? | 10 |
| Is the app forward thinking and innovative? | 9 |
| How re-usable is the app? | 10 |
| Overall | 9.5 |
I think Backboard does a good job of solving a big problem that many teams have, and this app almost makes the Perfect 10 cut. However, I just feel like the commenting system could have been a little more feature rich. Perhaps throw in a tagging system similar to Flickr that allows for specific areas of an image/site to be mapped out and commented.
But I think repeat use is very high for this app, and I myself will be back to use this again for sure. Check out the backboards I created here, and leave a comment to try it out if you'd like.
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