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Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

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Great idea, but one suggestion would be to make the site as light as humanly possible. Homeless people probably don't have stable or fast connections. Every kilobyte counts.

This file is 66KB out of the total 137KB: https://cloud.typography.com/7948374/730248/css/fonts.css - I would remove it and just use a:

    font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

#12

Great idea, but one suggestion would be to make the site as light as humanly possible. Homeless people probably don't have stable or fast connections. Every kilobyte counts. This file is 66KB out of the total 137KB: https://cloud.typography.com/7948374/730248/css/fonts.css - I would remove it and just use a: font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;

Absolutely, could not agree more - we already have an open ticket for this actually! Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Jacalata, The service is not currently live in the US, we're an Australian based organisation as is our target audience at present.

No, I get that. What i was pointing out was that once it had a location, I couldn't change it (it never asked me again).

Hey jacalata, thanks for pointing this out. I've reproduced the issue as best I can, and AFAICT you should see a link on that page which says "Change you answers".

Clicking it should display a list of the answers you've chosen, and the top one should be your location. Clicking that should let you change your location.

If that doesn't work, drop me a line at jcrompton@infoxchange.org -- I'd love to get enough info from you to properly reproduce the bug so we can fix it.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

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Main dev on the project here (I work for rea-group.com who run www.realestate.com.au, but they've given me a years secondment to the project).

Back in 2013 a team at our hackday implemented the precursor to this app, and the leadership team were super impressed.

It's been amazing working so closely with the sector (we meet/do user testing with representatives from lots of organisations).

This is my first project with react / es7, but I've built a few rich client webapps before. React is definitely the best developer experience I've had with client-side frameworks.

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

#17

Main dev on the project here (I work for rea-group.com who run www.realestate.com.au, but they've given me a years secondment to the project). Back in 2013 a team at our hackday implemented the precursor to this app, and the leadership team were super impressed. It's been amazing working so closely with the sector (we meet/do user testing with representatives from lots of organisations). This is my first project with…

It's been fantastic having Daniel on board for this and really great of REA to help with resourcing the project.

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

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Main dev on the project here (I work for rea-group.com who run www.realestate.com.au, but they've given me a years secondment to the project). Back in 2013 a team at our hackday implemented the precursor to this app, and the leadership team were super impressed. It's been amazing working so closely with the sector (we meet/do user testing with representatives from lots of organisations). This is my first project with…

One thing I do miss in React is having a baked in data layer. I know know, React is the V in MVC, but still - you see it being compared to Angular, etc all the time.

Ember's ember-data package is so good. I miss it most of all.

Re: Show HN: AskIzzy – a mobile website for homeless people

#20
I'm so very proud to have been involved in this in a small way.

I work for realestate.com.au (REA Group), and we've been involved for around 2 years now in one way or another. This has included an REA employee joining the project for a year, and further back a development team of 6 spending a full month working on the front end.

If anyone is interested Malcolm Turnbull's speech from the launch is here: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2016-01-29/remarks-askizzy-launc...

Edit: Grammar

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