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Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by momotomo »

evilchelu wrote: post #28
momotomo wrote: post #21

Tiles.ice.org? I have nothing constructive to add except thank you for bringing back this concept. A few years ago I went back to ice.org to find out it had turned int a wasteland and was completely gutted. Genuinely shocked to see this resurrected, can't wait to get into this again. Chewed up many a friday night during university. =) Edit: one thing, any plan for a standard login / google account support or the like…

I hope you have a low threshold for this addiction and you'll get the bug again. Sorry, tzigla auth is not gonna happen. We can add other providers tho if people really hate both twitter and facebook. ps: in the meantime, you could sign up with with: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php We have custom one click integration with them, they're our lovely shiny delicous first users.

openid and google would be handy, but that's just me, not sure on the masses. Will sign up for watp and get started.

Tiles have a creative element, scarcity and a time constraint. I always wind up getting hyper competitive and tearing through as many as I can in a session. It's an evil crack-like substance for arty types.

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by evilchelu »

john-n wrote: post #39
evilchelu wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd really love to hear if you have some ideas about uncluttering it. We've iterated lots of versions till we got to this state. The canvas drawing confusion seems to be quite spread. We'll definitely have to add something about it. Oh wow, that's but is nasty. Let me explain why you got that, you'll find it hard to believe, I promise :) We use an iframe to upload the tiles directly to s3 and s3 redirects back to the…

Will go back and look over usability stuff again, but just quickly yeah id just uploaded then logged out (In latest stable chrome btw, not ff).

Yup, FF is just the root cause. We didn't do any browser sniffing for the fix.

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by evilchelu »

momotomo wrote: post #41
evilchelu wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you have a low threshold for this addiction and you'll get the bug again. Sorry, tzigla auth is not gonna happen. We can add other providers tho if people really hate both twitter and facebook. ps: in the meantime, you could sign up with with: http://www.wayofthepixel.net/pixelation/index.php We have custom one click integration with them, they're our lovely shiny delicous first users.

openid and google would be handy, but that's just me, not sure on the masses. Will sign up for watp and get started. Tiles have a creative element, scarcity and a time constraint. I always wind up getting hyper competitive and tearing through as many as I can in a session. It's an evil crack-like substance for arty types.

Good idea about google. OpenID probably won't add much tho.

Hope to see you around the boards then :)

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by sjs382 »

evilchelu wrote: post #19
buro9 wrote: post #9

You go to the deviantart forums and let people know. The key is to go find where artists are hanging out, and tell them... don't broadcast where they can't hear, go tell them. Tiles was great. One of my desktops for the longest time was this: http://www.slothy.com/118.jpg which is a tribute to Van Gogh drawn collaboratively.

Thank you, just posted to deviantart! My dream is that the old school tiles.ice.org people will stumble upon (ha!) tzigla and want to moderate boards.

Try irc. Efnet #ice

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by evilchelu »

sjs382 wrote: post #44
evilchelu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, just posted to deviantart! My dream is that the old school tiles.ice.org people will stumble upon (ha!) tzigla and want to moderate boards.

Try irc. Efnet #ice

Thanks! Joined. :)

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by pkamb »

Two big usability issues:

Have a picture on the home/landing page! Show what kind of cool stuff can be made by this. Maybe an awesome, mainly complete picture that still has some "puzzle pieces" blank on it. Then the call to action text next to it is "Help complete this picture" or something. Basically you want to make it clear that by uploading a single small piece you are contributing to a larger piece of art.

The feedback upon "clicking to reserve a tile" is not good. I kept double clicking because nothing was happening. It took me a long time to realize that the details were being populated over in the left column. A better design would be a lightbox that expands the single tile to full screen when you click a tile. Enforces the fact that you're now editing THIS tile. This would be an especially great interaction if you included a rudimentary web drawing tool for directly editing the new big tile.

Re: Ask HN: I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let them know about it?

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Post by evilchelu »

pkamb wrote: post #46

Two big usability issues: Have a picture on the home/landing page! Show what kind of cool stuff can be made by this. Maybe an awesome, mainly complete picture that still has some "puzzle pieces" blank on it. Then the call to action text next to it is "Help complete this picture" or something. Basically you want to make it clear that by uploading a single small piece you are contributing to a larger piece of art. The…

Thanks for the suggestions.

We're working on a better homepage right now, but it's taking a while because we kinda (really) suck at design.

I agree that the click to reserve ux is bad. But I think it's also a thing you only need to learn once, then you'll know stuff is in the sidebar. Taking up the whole page is pretty strange because nothing else does that at the moment, but this might change. For now, we'll add some hints to direct you to the sidebar when you click on one of those available tiles.

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