I like it. I've used Simply Noise in the past but will give Noisli a try next time I think of it!
Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity
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#152Honestly, this is one of those things that I'm never going to use because it's Web 2.0 and doesn't need to be. Your core functionality is cool: I definitely would like something that allows me to mix background noises. But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app. Why is there integration with Google Drive? That has nothin…
I agree partially with
>But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app.
It would be cool to have an explanation of what signing up does (for now, there is just a button that you can click without really knowing why).
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a way to make this harder to detect: create "loops" which are actually a multitude of loops that have prime number lengths. The individual components will repeat, but "beats" of simultaneous repeats won't exist, giving the illusion of a much longer sequence. I've seen an example in graphics used to create very large tiling patterns from a small image space. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20110410071059/http:…
Thanks for the hint ;)
Since people are likely to play several loops at once, you might make a policy that _all_ loops are different lengths, in prime integer numbers of seconds. I haven't checked for how long your segments are, but that would allow users to mix-and-match.
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#154This is great. Why do you need an 8 character password? Are you planning on adding some kind of a payment feature later? For things I don't care, I just use a simple password.
>For things I don't care, I just use a simple password. Maybe you don't care, but others might.
One problem that is exposed by low-quality / frequently reused passwords isn't so much poor password protocol among users (though there's that), but overauthentication on the part of sites and apps.
If your users are giving you poor passwords, maybe you shouldn't be using accounts.
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#155Honestly, this is one of those things that I'm never going to use because it's Web 2.0 and doesn't need to be. Your core functionality is cool: I definitely would like something that allows me to mix background noises. But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app. Why is there integration with Google Drive? That has nothin…
A contrary anecdote to yours would be mine. I love noisli so much, I actually bought the iPhone app! The app also lets you store combinations as named sets, a big plus for me. As with anything software (or life), YMMV.
That's not completely a contrary anecdote: I agree the core functionality is awesome. The only difference between our opinions is that the cruft and privacy concerns are not a dealbreaker for you.
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#156Page a few seconds loading and ended up as a blank page, (due to Facebook not loading).
I'm not convinced there's any reason to use this instead of http://mynoise.net/
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#157Honestly, this is one of those things that I'm never going to use because it's Web 2.0 and doesn't need to be. Your core functionality is cool: I definitely would like something that allows me to mix background noises. But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app. Why is there integration with Google Drive? That has nothin…
A contrary anecdote to yours would be mine. I love noisli so much, I actually bought the iPhone app! The app also lets you store combinations as named sets, a big plus for me. As with anything software (or life), YMMV.
I'll add to my other comment that I've only looked at the web interface, not the smartphone interface.
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#158The Soundcloud links are giving me a 502/504 which means that I don't hear anything.
Open the browser console, go to the resources tab, and delete all the soundcloud api local storage/cookies/etc. Perhaps at soundcloud.com too. I had that problem, mine works now.
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#159Honestly, this is one of those things that I'm never going to use because it's Web 2.0 and doesn't need to be. Your core functionality is cool: I definitely would like something that allows me to mix background noises. But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app. Why is there integration with Google Drive? That has nothin…
Thank you for your feedback, appreciate your honesty. Of course the text editor is not something for everybody. The users that do appreciate it want to write in a pleasant environment, without worrying to much on formatting. Would love to understand more how Noisli could be more useful for you. Just write me at hello (at) noisli (dot) com
Noisli could be more useful for me if it was just an app with different looping background noises that I could mix and balance with a nice interface (the one you have is nice). That is literally all you need to have a very good app.
Some features you could add after that: 1. Save mixes. 2. Sync saved mixes between app/phone/etc. (this would probably require a signup--but I might not use this feature, so don't force people to sign up to use the rest of your app). 3. Add your own sound loops.
Note that these features are all related to the core function of your app: mixing and balancing background noise.
I'm still really confused by why this includes a text editor. Notes, Stickies, TextEdit, pico, nano, and vim came preinstalled on my machine. I added OpenOffice, XCode and Emacs. I also use have used Google Docs, pastebin, txti.es, github gists, and probably more online text editors that I don't remember. There are dozens more text editors that I haven't mentioned, and there are probably hundreds I haven't even heard of. Why would anyone use one that's for no apparent reason bolted onto the side of a background noise app?
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#160For a splitsecond i read Nisoli, and i had a micro-heart-attack.