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Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by mslipper »

freshfey wrote: post #2

Love it. I'd add a video which shows the swiping motion, though. P.S. which resources did you use to learn iOS programming?

Thank you freshfey! Glad you like it!

I used the online Stanford CS139P class and some PeepCode screencasts to get started. I come from a web dev background so it was difficult for me at first to wrap my head around Objective-C, but after using those two resources I was able to understand the syntax (and the SDK) much more clearly.

Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by tissarah »

I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it.

Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...

Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by mslipper »

tissarah wrote: post #5

I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it. Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...

True. Perhaps 'services' or 'social networks' might be better words?

Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by MehdiEG »

tissarah wrote: post #5

I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it. Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...

Same here - didn't get it at all at first. When I read "Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share.", I thought that it allowed you to share videos that you found on YouTube or other video sites, which didn't make any sense.

I get it now. Head a bit fried today so can't really think of a better strap-line right now though.

Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by mslipper »

MehdiEG wrote: post #7
tissarah wrote: post #5

I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it. Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...

Same here - didn't get it at all at first. When I read "Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share.", I thought that it allowed you to share videos that you found on YouTube or other video sites, which didn't make any sense. I get it now. Head a bit fried today so can't really think of a better strap-line right now though.

Yeah, I agree. I removed the 'pick your sites' copy altogether - I didn't really need it anyway.

Re: Show HN: SwipeVideo, my first iOS App

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Post by cocoflunchy »

mslipper wrote: post #6
tissarah wrote: post #5

I didn't completely understand on the first read what your app did. I read it as taking video of websites -- which is silly, but I thought I'd mention it. Maybe "Pick your favorite sites" is unnecessary right up front? You mention later it integrates with my favorite sites and I see YouTube etc...

True. Perhaps 'services' or 'social networks' might be better words?

I think your headline doesn't work very well because it doesn't describe the actual process : you say

"Pick your favorite sites. Take a video. Swipe to share."

And what I would do is more like :

Pick a video I've made / Make a video > Slide to the site I want to send it to.

Or maybe I just haven't understood the process at all ^^

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