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Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Re: Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Post by hpen »

KMnO4 wrote: post #9
ronyfadel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an indie developer, and the $7.99 lifetime license purchase sustains Batteries' development.

> sustains Batteries' development What future development needs to be sustained? I developed a similarly-sized app back in the days of Snow Leopard and I’ve not really needed to do much maintenance to keep it going. An hour at most every major OS X version and that was mostly just updating dependencies and recompiling. That’s less time than I spend scrolling HN so I couldn’t justify charging for it.

I see this as a case not to charge a subscription, but I don't see why that should stop him from charging out right. My comment before was more about marketing, and reaching maximum people than doing what was justifiable.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Post by kroltan »

Congrats on the release! As a part-time nit-picker, I found some issues on your landing page:

The "hero image" overlaps the subsequent heading. https://i.imgur.com/PiCekWg.png

Your links (the "Batteries for Mac" heading, "Buy Now" button and "Download" button) do not work in a non-JavaScript-enabled browser.

The foldout FAQs are permanently hidden on a non-JavaScript-enabled browser. Suggestion: Have them visible by default and use JS to hide them.

You have a "they're talking about us" section, but no links. I'll have to take your word for it.

In the FAQ, the screenshots have some intense JPG compression artifacts. Consider reacquiring using a lossless format such as PNG.

In the FAQ, the screenshots are absolutely huge. Consider setting a width/height based on the density-factor of your screen. Web layout pixels are not physical pixels, so if your Mac is 2x density, these screenshots should be set to half their actual size.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Post by ronyfadel »

kroltan wrote: post #13

Congrats on the release! As a part-time nit-picker, I found some issues on your landing page: The "hero image" overlaps the subsequent heading. https://i.imgur.com/PiCekWg.png Your links (the "Batteries for Mac" heading, "Buy Now" button and "Download" button) do not work in a non-JavaScript-enabled browser. The foldout FAQs are permanently hidden on a non-JavaScript-enabled browser. Suggestion: Have them visible by…

Thanks for the nit-pick, these are all valid points. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

hpen wrote: post #7
ronyfadel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an indie developer, and the $7.99 lifetime license purchase sustains Batteries' development.

I do respect that. And if you find people paying for it then I say keep at it! I definitely think it is a neat app, but I just didn't see the value proposition personally. Others probably do. I know the macOS software market is usually higher priced than iOS and others. Thats just my reaction and I wanted to give my feedback. As a side note: I'm trying to break into the iOS/macOS dev market, do you mind sharing if yo…

This is so offensive. Why reply? $7.99 is too much for you? Then don't buy it. God forbid someone try and recoup their Apple Developer Program annual fee.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that tracks your devices' batteries from your Mac

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Post by ronyfadel »

spyremeown wrote: post #16
ixnus wrote: post #15

Loving the layout of your site as a whole. props on the launch

Agreed, really good looking and fast.

Thank you both! The CSS animation for the MBP took a while to make, but otherwise I wanted to make something simple and that loads decently fast.
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