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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
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Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#62Hi Mike! Thanks for displaying such unselfishness and support. It's really people like you who begin making a difference. If you don't mind, I'd like to get some feedback for the landing page http://grooovy.me . If this is something that you might be interested in, signups would be appreciated. It would also help immensely if you can spread the word about us in any way you can! Again, thank you for taking the time ou…
Sure thing.... thoughts on the homepage:
- Nitpick: The text left of the iPhone on Windows and Ubuntu is not vertically centered on the band. I realize the headings line up horizontally, but my OCD is still itching. (Chrome 14 on both.)
- Nitpick: The active (blue) circle under the text to the right of the iPhone is just a pixel or two too low. (Again on both Ubuntu and Windows w/ Chrome 14.)
- Further Nitpick: On sliding the homepage over a few times, I feel this color band across the back of the page is causing my OCD more problems than text alignment. Maybe find another way to put a splash of color on the page. Or make it more subtle.
- I almost missed that I could slide the homepage over with the arrow, BTW.
- I see the clever active email request form built into the iPhone demo on step 2, but it'll probably get missed by the majority. Especially when there's no reason to believe that anything is active in the demo area. (Even with arrows.)
- You mention a video in Step 4 but I see no video link anywhere.... ????
- Do you track to see how many people get through to the end? Putting your "RSVP" request only at the beginning and end (and hidden in step 2), you risk missing conversions in the intermediate steps. I'd find a way to ask for that RSVP on every screen.
Overall, the layout and walkthrough is nice and give users something to look at if they're really interested. Nice work and easy on the eyes. I'm not an iPhone guy so I can't help you there. Dropped a tweet for you because of the decent execution here!
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#63Can you think of a way to improve my game's[1] interface, taking into account that it has to work on both mobile devices and PCs? Also, if you find any bugs I'd love to hear about it! [1] http://cardinalquest.com/free_edition/
Seems neat! Is there a mailing list to get contacted once you finish the game? I like how lazy it is to move and attack :p At the beginning, I was searching the attack key everywhere only to find out that there's none. Maybe there're could be a way to explain that. I.e. A simple tutorial where you move, get your sword, and attack a frog or whatever ;) I like the retro look with the modern nifty details. Good job over…
Thanks! I released 1.0 already, there is a link on that page for getting the desktop version :)
I was thinking of adding a tutorial mode, need to figure out a way to do it without triggering the tl;dr filter.
I'm planning on soon getting the Deluxe-edition out (which will be free for people who bought the current full version), at which point the current version will become the free demo.
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#64Hi Mike! In your first post you say "I've got great aesthetics and design sense". I could definitely use your advice on my personal website - http://nickknowlson.com
My skills are those of a developer much more than a designer, but I tried to make it fairly clean. Thanks for doing this!
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#65Hi Mike, I have created a free service for app developers to connect with their user base through discussions, bug fixes and a static FAQs section. I have some features I will be working on soon (closing bugs, assigning bugs, "private" apps, RSS feeds). Is the idea just not good enough, or is there something I'm missing that I should be highlighting? The site is http://www.dcmntr.com/ Thanks!
By looking at the splash screen, I have no idea what it does. It promises me wonderful things.. but I don't see how it'd integrate with my apps. Maybe an image workflow of the big use-cases? Or a video? Or a tour.
Great ideas! I will work on that this weekend.
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#66I have a process for using Dropbox to upload a large number of photos. My goal is to find out (1) is it easy, (2) does it feel easy as you go along, and (3) what unknowns might make users uneasy during the process. (Feedback that doesn't serve this goal is welcome too.)
Pretend you want to try a site that automatically organizes your photos into a blog-like format.
Share a new Dropbox folder with box@ourdoings.com
Think aloud during this process as follows:
time question when-answered
10:30 Shared the folder...what next? 10:45
P.S. I filled out your survey and left my email address.
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#67Hi Mike, thanks for your kind offer!
We have an old Windows XP machine that I would like to replace with a newer Windows 7 one. However, my wife is used to the old machine; in particular she has Internet Explorer manage all her auto-complete's and username/passwords for different sites she uses.
I looked around for tools to at least copy the passwords to the new machine but 1) Microsoft says it's not supported 2) the unofficial tools all look super-sketchy.
Any ideas of how to transplant the auto-completes and passwords to a new machine?
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#68Hey mike!! Thanks for doing this again. If you have some time I was wondering if you would check out this political satire website I do some work for and let me know what you think of the design and if anything needs to be changed. Also any recommendations on marketing it would be appreciated!
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#69Hi Mike, I'm new to coding, and I'm building a site (using php) that I'm going to try to launch as a paid product in a couple of weeks: http://www.gmatboost.com I'd really appreciate any feedback you have on what I should add, remove, change, be aware of, etc. Also, I'm not sure how I am going to accept payment yet, so I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on how I (i.e. someone with the bare minimum amount of coding…
If you're new to coding, it doesn't show in the least. At a second's glance, this is a polished site. Very clean layout and presentation. Clear communication of value-add. And I assume the images of the colleges gives semblance of social-proof for your product. Excellent!
(I don't understand why but cooler colors tend to do much better producing academic products. I have nothing but subjectivity to back this up, but I notice this over and over again.)
As far as accepting payment, I recently came across Stripe. It's completely free to implement and play with. PCI-compliant. You pay when you get paid. The discount rate is a bit higher as a result of not having a monthly fee (which is still reasonable). With their javascript library, your servers never see a CC# and you remove a LOAD of liability from your business. I intend to use it for my next project. They have a RESTful API with plenty of examples. And most importantly for you, they have examples in PHP: https://stripe.com/docs/api
Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's what annoyed me while playing for a minute or two: - Ask for a confirmation before letting a spellcaster cast a fireball on himself (mistakes). - When casting an offensive spell, place the target cursor automatically on enemies, allowing for a faster pace. (For keyboard users like me!)
Duly noted, thanks!
Nice game overall, looks promising! You probably play (have played) other rogue-likes - have you tried dungeon crawl recently? It's getting pretty awesome, look it up : http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/
You can play by ssh anytime at joshua@crawl.akrasiac.org (pw: joshua).