I would pay between 5-10 usd/month to see my speed increase. I think I am going to be using this tool a lot if it works.
Show HN: readfa.st - learn to read faster
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#22Good stuff. It is the first Show HN site that I actually bookmarked for later. It is well-done and it is interesting.
A couple of things though. Requiring an email address upfront means that I will feed you a @mailinator.com one. Let people play with the site a bit, and then require creating an account if they want to save the progress... or something along these lines.
Second, a confirmation email appears to include a numerical user ID. This inadvertently discloses the number of users you have to anyone who signs up. May want to fix that.
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#2315 years into the web and still we see new sites coming out with the "Go Away" pattern. I just don't understand it.
If a potential user has somehow managed to find his way onto your homepage, that's a big win for you. You need to take that opportunity to hook him as quickly and effectively as possible. Given the average attention span on the internet, you've got at most 5 seconds to avert the Back Button, then maybe 10 more to convince that user that your thing is worth investing some time in.
Know the absolute worst thing you can do at that point? Stick that user on a page with absolutely no information about your product, then assign him some chores to do so before you'll let him even find out. Like this:
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#24it would be nice if I can share my badges via Facebook and Twitter - also, it would be great if I can invite my Facebook and Twitter friends :)
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#25mh would be awesome if you make an background-Fallback for the buttons or add prefixes for more browsers.
i.e. in Opera i don't see any linear-gradient if you only use -moz- / -webkit- just add a background:#color one line above the linear-gradient. Older browsers display the #color and newer browsers use the background:linear-gradient
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#26Works on my iPhone, way to go, the screen size is a little nit of a problem but the site runs smoothly.
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#27Nice app. Any way to integrate the bookmarklet on online pdfs files ? or import the contents of .pdf to readfa.st?
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#28Nice idea! A couple of suggestions: 1) Make the quizzes shorter than 2 minutes. 2) As avree and bherms suggested, you need an intro. before the sign-up. I'm just an impulsive sign-upper because I like checking out new sites, but I suggested the site to my friend and he just stared at it before getting distracted by something else.
That's a good point on the quizzes - we've added logic to choose quizzes that are more reasonable in length (going for 90 seconds for now and we'll see how it affects use).
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#29Your site tells me absolutely nothing about the product without requiring me to sign up. Consequently, I did not sign up.
Good feedback on the sign-up sheet. We've cobbled together a brief video explanation of the site - let me know what you think!