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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by ClintonWu »

kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a shot when we release.

Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without going to another destination.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by awa »

ClintonWu wrote: post #81
kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Give Skim.Me ( http://skim.me ) a shot when we release. Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without g…

the homepage of skim.me totally confuses me... just 3 bullet points and you want my email address. No demo, no pictures. Asking and getting email ids from users shouldn't be so cheap.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by sigkill »

IsaacL wrote: post #15

Suggestion: "how much would you theoretically pay for this" won't give you much accurate information. I'd suggest changing it to "pre-register for one of our plans: free, $5, $25", with an overview of each, and see what people click.

This is a wonderful suggestion. OP listen to this.

When you put such an option to people, they will not tell you how much it's worth to them. They will only tell you how much they are willing to pay... if at all they had to. Expect the numbers to skew heavily towards free.

Actually, I'd say, once you get the data you should generously double the price.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

#84

Post by fribblerz »

notJim wrote: post #69

As someone who does hiring, this sort of thing is kind of neat, but mostly very annoying. I look at maybe a dozen resumes (there's someone else in front of me who looks at far more ), and having to figure out the bizarre format of yours is a waste of my time. I would guess that this applies similarly for people hiring contractors. The consistency of the boring resume format is a plus. If you want to distinguish yours…

But won't it work better in case one has just a couple of candidates to deal with. Pick 10 from 100 as per their regular boring format resume, then use these kind of detailed profiles to pick 3-4 to call in for an interview.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by [deleted] »

ClintonWu wrote: post #81
kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Give Skim.Me ( http://skim.me ) a shot when we release. Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without g…

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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by ClintonWu »

awa wrote: post #82
ClintonWu wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give Skim.Me ( http://skim.me ) a shot when we release. Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without g…

the homepage of skim.me totally confuses me... just 3 bullet points and you want my email address. No demo, no pictures. Asking and getting email ids from users shouldn't be so cheap.

yeah, I hear you. we're working on a new homepage with a demo video. we initially threw something up quick so we could focus on the product.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by incision »

tptacek wrote: post #79
incision wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with essentially everything you're saying here, but I don't see how something like this couldn't be useful to show work behind my results progressed. Or at least easier to consume than a traditional resume or modern blog-as-resume for that purpose. I'm thinking of it as a simple tool for providing context and references to what I've done. The first step in making those claims of results credible. I'm not talk…

Why is your work relevant if you've created the results? The mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results is the bane of almost all professional managers. It's crazymaking when you set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it. That happens often enough that I might not want to signal that particular "survival skill" to a prospective manager.

Perhaps the methods used to achieve the results or the context in which they were achieved aren't relevant from one position to another? Maybe the methods would reveal a momentary success that happens to be unsustainable?

I feel like your angle here is frustratingly assumptive in the same way as the other response below.

Having seen it twice now, maybe what I'm saying looks just like the symptoms of some "process not results" types you two have seen before, but it couldn't be further from my intent or work in practice.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by yessql »

awa wrote: post #82
ClintonWu wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give Skim.Me ( http://skim.me ) a shot when we release. Integration is the hard part but it's the next step in the evolution away from widget based dashboards to better designed experiences that display that info. I think the experience should be multi-tiered - from quick glances to deeper functionality for repetitive actions. You might just want to track some things but you should also be able to do X or Y without g…

the homepage of skim.me totally confuses me... just 3 bullet points and you want my email address. No demo, no pictures. Asking and getting email ids from users shouldn't be so cheap.

The laminate flooring is nice though. You have to give them that.
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