We're thrilled to announce the launch of EchoPastel, a powerful visual feedback platform designed to streamline collaboration between designers, developers, and stakeholders. After months of development, we're ready to share our vision for a better way to collect, organize, and act on feedback for web projects.
What is EchoPastel?
EchoPastel is a visual feedback platform that allows you to annotate any element of your web pages and collaborate with your team to improve your interfaces. Whether you're working on a new landing page, refining a user interface, or gathering feedback from clients, EchoPastel makes the process seamless and efficient.
The Problem We're Solving
Traditional feedback collection methods—emails, spreadsheets, and scattered comments—create confusion and slow down the design and development process. Designers and developers waste time trying to understand vague feedback like "make this bigger" or "change the color." Context gets lost, and important details are overlooked.
EchoPastel solves this by bringing feedback directly to where it matters: your actual web pages. No more back-and-forth emails or trying to describe which element needs attention. Just point, click, and comment.
Key Features
Visual Annotations
Place precise annotations directly on your web pages. Our multi-strategy fingerprint system ensures that your annotations remain attached to the right elements, even in dynamic content like carousels and sliders. Each annotation can contain text, mentions of collaborators, and threaded replies.
Real-Time Collaboration
Share your Echos with your team and collaborate efficiently. Mention your colleagues using @mentions, reply to annotations, and follow all discussions in one centralized place. Everyone stays in the loop, and nothing falls through the cracks.
Multi-Device Support
EchoPastel supports annotations on desktop and mobile devices. You can test your interfaces and collect feedback on all types of devices, ensuring your designs work perfectly across different screen sizes and platforms.
Team Management
Manage multiple organizations and teams. Control permissions, invite your collaborators, and organize your feedback projects in a structured way. Perfect for agencies managing multiple clients or teams working on different projects.
How It Works
Getting started with EchoPastel is simple:
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Create an Echo: An Echo is a feedback project associated with a website. Simply enter your website's domain, and EchoPastel will generate a screenshot and set up your project.
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Start Annotating: Click anywhere on your webpage to place a pin and add your comment. Your annotations are automatically saved and synced.
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Invite Collaborators: Share your Echo via email or a public link. Invited people can leave comments without simplily creating an EchoPastel account for free.
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Collaborate: Team members can reply to annotations, mention each other, and track all discussions in real-time.
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Take Action: Use the feedback to improve your designs and interfaces, then mark annotations as resolved when changes are implemented.
Who Can Benefit from EchoPastel?
EchoPastel is perfect for:
- Design Teams: Collect and organize feedback on design iterations
- Development Teams: Get precise feedback on UI elements and functionality
- Agencies: Manage feedback for multiple client projects
- Product Managers: Coordinate feedback from stakeholders and users
- Freelancers: Streamline client communication and feedback collection
Getting Started
Ready to transform how you collect and manage feedback? Getting started with EchoPastel is free and takes just a few minutes:
- Sign up for an account - Choose from email, magic link, or social login
- Create your first Echo - Add your website domain
- Start annotating - Place your first pin and invite your team
The free plan includes 2 active Echos, perfect for trying out the platform. Paid plans offer unlimited Echos and additional features for teams and organizations.
Conclusion
EchoPastel represents a new way of thinking about feedback collection and collaboration. By bringing annotations directly to your web pages, we're eliminating the friction that slows down design and development workflows.
We're incredibly excited to see how you'll use EchoPastel to improve your projects and streamline your collaboration. Thank you for being part of this journey with us.
Ready to get started? Create your first Echo today.
Have questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Reach out to us through our contact page or join our community.