Ask HN: Please provide feedback for fonefu.com

Post by comatose_kid » Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 3:43 PM UTC

fiaz wrote: post #11

Great concept!!! This is exactly the type of thing that I would use given that I do not have an iPhone (or something similar). Even if I did have an iPhone, I think the convenience of punching in the ISBN and getting a direct answer trumps having to launch Safari, navigate to Amazon.com, do a search, select the title, pinch (zoom in/out), etc. I'm definitely going to try this one out (and this is coming from a hard c…

Post by comatose_kid » Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 3:45 PM UTC

aston wrote: post #6

This seems like just the type of app Twilio was built to be built upon. Are you guys using their API, or something you rolled on your own?

Post by _pius » Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 4:09 PM UTC

Post by jo » Tue, Mar 31, 2009, 5:40 PM UTC

comatose_kid wrote: post #18

tesseract wrote: post #3

I like the idea. I am probably a member of your exact target market: I often wander into a bookstore or library to kill time, but don't always have a notepad with me to jot down titles that look interesting. If I had an iPhone I'd use Amazon's app, but I don't. I could barely understand the synthesized voice (there was a lot of hissing and other artifacts when I called; I'm nearly certain they weren't on my end of th…

You are totally my target audience - I had better make you a regular user :) The synth voice is less than ideal, I'm looking at other options, but they get expensive quickly. One possibility is to use a better codec on the web server. Added to the 'todo' list. The number - That is a strange bug, I thought I had fixed it a while back. I'll correct it soon. I'll have to look into wishlists - exporting them is a neat id…