i must say the name, the website, the app's UI all look pretty neat. you seem more of a designer than a developer, may I ask you, what's your expertise?
Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
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Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#102So this app is using the device's camera? How does it account for the fact that camera's perception of color is often no where as similar as our eye?
Or is the intent for the user to see the world through the app and find colors that look appealing on the screen?
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#103I can't find it in the Canadian App Store.
That's strange! Here's a direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/cone-live-color-picker/id122...
I'll look into the issue.
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#104Hi, HN! Really excited to share my little project here. Being a colorblind designer, it was often hard for me to figure the color names and decide which colors to use. Hence, I decided to make this app. Cone lets you pick colors in real time using the phone's camera. It lets you build color palettes while on the run, capturing and recording color for later comment/discussion, sending the colors to someone else quickl…
I like how you kept the site and dependencies simple. 34.7KB of js (~21 is mostly color definitions), and 4.2KB of css. Just FYI: 1. You could save ~15.75kb by minifying your JS/CSS (a bit nit-picky since your resources are a fraction of what most sites have) 2. The 1MB background image comes out to 570.6 KB through tinypng.com (47% off!). If lossless is more your thing, you could save about 5% by running it through…
If you're willing to go lossy, also look at PNGQuant - https://pngquant.org/ I've started using it on all of my web images. I've yet to see the loss on a couple dozen images, but the size drops by up to 66%, even after being run through imageoptim.
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#105Hi, HN! Really excited to share my little project here. Being a colorblind designer, it was often hard for me to figure the color names and decide which colors to use. Hence, I decided to make this app. Cone lets you pick colors in real time using the phone's camera. It lets you build color palettes while on the run, capturing and recording color for later comment/discussion, sending the colors to someone else quickl…
Really keen to try this, congratulations on launching. I've been missing something like this since Adobe bought and slowly crippled Kuler.
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very cool. Did you come up with these "color names" yourself?
From the footer: > The Resene RGB Values List is copyrighted to Resene Paints Ltd, 2001. Name That Color by Chirag Mehta
Why is that copyrighted? Now that work is a literary work and no one can use the code till Disney gets permanence on their copyrights.
There are so many better licenses.
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#107Am I just too stupid to see the grander idea of this app or why does it get so much attention and top position on HN? It's just a color picker on camera images or what did I miss? It's very well done I agree but still seems remarkably trivial. Why all the fuzz?
You are just missing how things surface on HN
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#108Not sure how many people this affects but clicking on the download button from the website on Chrome (iOS) takes you to an iTunes page that doesn't contain the app. Clicking on it via Safari (iOS) sends you to the app store to the app proper. Video of the issue in Chrome (iOS) - http://imgur.com/ntTmynl
Thank you so much for reporting that. I just copied the link from my iTunes connect account which only has one additional parameter "?ls=1" that seems to work in Chrome.
Does anyone know what that parameter means?
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#109Not sure how many people this affects but clicking on the download button from the website on Chrome (iOS) takes you to an iTunes page that doesn't contain the app. Clicking on it via Safari (iOS) sends you to the app store to the app proper. Video of the issue in Chrome (iOS) - http://imgur.com/ntTmynl
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#110i must say the name, the website, the app's UI all look pretty neat. you seem more of a designer than a developer, may I ask you, what's your expertise?
Thank you! I am an interaction designer but I picked up development (frontend on web) early on and have been doing both since.