Raleway Thin is a terrible reading font. Consider using it for large headings only and sticking to Helvetica for paragraphs.
Show HN: Contacts storage the way it should be done.
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#42Raleway Thin is a terrible reading font. Consider using it for large headings only and sticking to Helvetica for paragraphs.
Strongly Agree
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#43Raleway Thin is a terrible reading font. Consider using it for large headings only and sticking to Helvetica for paragraphs.
I second that. Try it in portrait on an iPad.
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Hi lifeisstillgood, We obviously haven't made it clear enough on our site. 1. I would need to know a bit more about your setup - but if you are on a Mac, we have integration with your email, the Skype app and syncing to iPhone/Android. If you are on Windows, then it's a bit more complicated and depends on what you use. Drop me an email at hi@useadd.com if you want with your setup and I'll see if it will work, now or…
> We obviously haven't made it clear enough on our site. I was just letting you know. :-) Just a small point but your site stuck me as making fatal marketing mistake #1 - it was talking about you not about me. not Mac, FreeBSD. But thinking of moving to Ubuntu for simplicity.
You should be able to get your contacts into Evolution or any other software that supports CardDAV. We will try and get some instructions up this week - check back on http://useadd.com/guides/connect later
Thank you for the comments, really appreciated.
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Very much so troels, thank you. An unbiased, outside view of the design is critical. Working on it now.
Here's[1] a screenshot from Chrome 24.0.1312.52 on Ubuntu 12.10. You can see jagged rendering on the logo and headline, the buttons look a little funny (padding? font?) and the top nav uses an inconsistent font. [1] http://i.imgur.com/o0HR9Ke.png
I realised that the logo is rendered with svg. Probably a bad idea - Just render it to PNG with an alpha channel.
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#46Inline CSS :o But nice idea! "We are constantly working to improve Add and add useful and exciting features." Do you have a roadmap? (pure curiosity, I don't see what kind of feature you can add)
(I'm not affiliated with Add in any way.) It's nice that you looked at the source, and if you were a manager of an established site or app it would make sense to be concerned about inline CSS there because it's a maintainability nightmare, but frankly I'm sure these guys have other stuff to be working on. I will be the first to admit to dropping in some inline CSS on occasion, and if it helps get things out the door…
I'm for dropping in inline CSS for quick fixes too. But I didn't think using inline CSS everywhere was something people still do today.
(To be honest, I looked at the source because the rendering was odd on my computer, and I wanted to know if it was my you-should-not-pass corporate firewall which was blocking something, or just a it-renders-better-on-chrome problem)
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Your data is already out there on the open Internet. I could probably find your blood type based off your HN account.
If you can, please drop me an email with mine.
Honestly, I could. It'd probably require deception, though. Once I found your address or even your name I can grab a list of your suspected relatives. After that, I can find their phone numbers, and call them, and tell them you're in the hospital and in need of a blood transfusion or you'll die.
They'll find me it very quickly.
I used intellius to conduct a background check on someone the other day and for a few bucks I got all their public records, prior addresses, emails they used when they were in high school (mine too, apparently AOL and Yahoo sell your data to companies like intellius). Also, a fairly complete list of relatives, and contact info for them as well, neighbors too.
While finding your blood type is definitely possible, I don't really have an interest in spying on you :)
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#48This is probably repetitive with some of the other comments, but I'd absolutely be willing to pay $3/mo for a service that will do the following:
1) Most importantly, de-dupe contacts on all devices. Get VERY good at fuzzy matching algorithms, they can't possibly be too hard. I have an iPhone that for no obvious reason to me, has 8 different versions of a single contact, despite having near-exact replicas of the contact's data. I want a 1:1 match of people:contacts. Even a basic flow wherein you say "Here's all the contacts we're merging... uncheck any you think we messed up" would be hugely useful on all devices. But for this, you need to be able to write/delete contacts.. no idea if that's possible in an Apple world. I'm staggered that no one is doing this today (that I know of).
2) Import from all normal places where people store contacts (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, ICQ, Twitter, AOL Messenger, LinkedIn, Myspace, iCloud/Apple, Exchange, Linux datastores, etc... this obviously takes time).
3) Once you've imported, provide re-export / de-duping for all sources (in other words, after you've gone through and classified my contacts, allow me to say "Sync all that information back into Google contacts, Plaxo, etc.").
4) Really ideally, don't store the raw data on your servers, only store it encrypted so that you can't answer government requests. This requirement conflicts with your ability to get raw data to feed those fuzzy algorithms, though, so it'd probably have to get dropped, I'm guessing.
5) If you want to increase your viral coefficient dramatically, start building identity profiles of people based off of publicly-available information on the Net, and offer it to people who already have that person as a contact. Increased stalking capabilities are always popular (if evil).
6) Export not just to services, but to any popular data formats (Sounds like you have CardDav taken care of, but even just raw XML exports, CSV exports, tab-delimited exports, exports of just address data or phone numbers or names, etc.)
7) Allow an option whereby a user can have a personal profile, and when that user's contact info changes, notify anyone connected that their contact info has changed. (Probably not that important until you get to Facebook scale)
8) Allow for groupings, and allow a person to be in multiple groupings (while still understanding that that person is the same person). Start with some basics (Family, Friends, Co-workers), and import say Exchange contacts into Co-workers by default). Also, sync groupings with external services on demand.
There's probably more, but even just solving #1 would be a huge deal.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you can, please drop me an email with mine.
Honestly, I could. It'd probably require deception, though. Once I found your address or even your name I can grab a list of your suspected relatives. After that, I can find their phone numbers, and call them, and tell them you're in the hospital and in need of a blood transfusion or you'll die. They'll find me it very quickly. I used intellius to conduct a background check on someone the other day and for a few buck…
That's cool. Part of the reason I asked is that I haven't even disclosed my email, let alone name, on HN.
re:family - my family is (unfortunately) well aware of aware that this would be a scam, having spent too much time with health services. Also, the fact that I wasn't raised in the US puts me at a distinct advantage here :)
But your point is well taken: some intellius&friends, some social engineering, and you get what you want.