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How about replacing that image of the sign up form on your first page with... The actual sign up form? It should be simple enough and also reduce friction.
HN - I’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts on this app. Would you use it? What do you think of the user interface? What could be improved? How does it compare to similar apps? I’m ready for your (hopefully constructive) criticisms! For the record – all of the design, programming, and imagining was done by me =] == Experience & Motivation Pocket was developed to scratch a personal itch - a very itchy itch. I am…
Congratulations on shipping! Some notes: * The logo is very hard to see. If I'm not mistaken, it's suppsoed to be pressed text on a brown background with a glow around it. It doesn't stand out nearly as much as it should. * "Keep your ideas on a personal dashboard" has a "Learn more" with an arrow. I tried to click the arrow unsuccessfully. It looks like you have to click the post-it-note. Make the arrow clickable to…
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I agree with LRM about the logo... little too dark. Didn't even realize it was there. For your issues: 1) Try using Authlogic ( https://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic ) to handle users/passwords... It's a great solution and is super easy to implement. Once you have Authlogic, use this ( http://www.binarylogic.com/2008/11/16/tutorial-reset-passwor... ) to figure out password resets. 2) Dunno about this... Twilio + s…
I would recommend Devise over Authlogic as it doesn't pollute your application with as much generated code...
random first second thoughts: as i scrolled down the page, I lost the text to image connection. where does the text belong to, the image above or below. does not show the mobile interface. or is it just a website that you call "app"?
I used Evernote on Android to take notes. In the end, I just Gmail myself. It has two advantages: 1) Sends next time I have WiFi connection. 2) The email acts as a reminder to follow up.
Nice work! Do you plan to make money from this? As you said, it is a very crowded market and I would suggest you to be ready for a long PR campaign. Peldi from balsamiq has great advice: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2008/08/05/startup-marketi... If you choose the freemium route, you could give away to bloggers and alike, free premium accounts for them and for their readers. It is a great promotion tactic.
While building the app, I told myself that I would be satisfied if I was the only person in the world that used it (it was just a testing ground, after all). With this overwhelmingly positive response, I guess I can have a little more confidence to pursue things further.
Thanks for checking out Pocket!
Love the simple interface. One UX issue that comes to mind is, when I delete a tag that's present on only one note, just redirect me to Dashboard instead of saying there are no notes left and providing a link to Dashboard.
Thanks for checking out Pocket!
Looks great and I liked it, but the late notice on the 140 character limit is annoying. I had to type out a list of projects for my week of vacation, so start typing away, click Create, then doh! 140 limit? Select all, cut, open Stickies, new sticky, paste, quit. Would be great if larger stickies could be created. Or if you are going to have a 140 limit, have a character counter there somewhere.
Thanks for checking out the app!
random first second thoughts: as i scrolled down the page, I lost the text to image connection. where does the text belong to, the image above or below. does not show the mobile interface. or is it just a website that you call "app"?
No mobile interface right now - the app is solely browser based. iPhone, Android, and desktop apps are in the pipeline and will be integrated as soon as I can figure out how to develop them.
Thanks for the feedback!