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I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Post by rhizome »

54mf wrote: post #8
elliotb wrote: post #7

It seems your post has become inaccessible. I'm getting: Cannot connect to your Dropbox account. Are you sure you have connected Skrivr to Dropbox Oops. Page does not exist. … the page you are looking for does not exist.

Awesome. I don't have a "proper blog" up yet and assumed a third-party service reading a static text file wouldn't die. Serves me right. I'll work on getting that page forwarded to something more stable, I appreciate the heads-up.

Amazon S3 can serve static HTML.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Post by 54mf »

rhizome wrote: post #11
54mf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome. I don't have a "proper blog" up yet and assumed a third-party service reading a static text file wouldn't die. Serves me right. I'll work on getting that page forwarded to something more stable, I appreciate the heads-up.

Amazon S3 can serve static HTML.

You know, the sad thing is that I've got a Linode server that's more than capable of handling the load of static pages. I just liked the themes on Skrivr and didn't want to let aesthetics distract me from writing up my post, so I just went with their theme and posted. Probably should have set something up on my own in advance.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Post by 54mf »

rpledge wrote: post #10

The app looks well designed, but the lack of sync features would be an issue for me. But I'm sure there's a good market for people that don't need to coordinate calendars between devices and people.

I'm still on the fence about sync. There are a lot of good reasons not to; besides intentionally not including it for the sake of compartmentalizing functionality, it would be a pain in the ass to make it work with the UI and UX of the app. Exporting events would be simple (in fact, data exporting will be coming soon, just to an email or text file if nothing else - data portability!), but importing existing events would be a disaster. I'd have to massacre any overlapping events.

But, I'm intentionally leaving that door open, simply because I'm willing to at least consider any user requests. Maybe there's a place for it, we'll see how things grow.

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Post by FiddlerClamp »

A one-line description of why Faraday is different/cool from other calendars would help - both in your flat-file post ("It's a simple day calendar called Faraday, and it's the first iOS calendar to XYZ..."), as well as Faraday's home page, under the video. I can't tell enough from the screen cap, except that the UI reminds me a bit of the Clear to-do list app that was making the rounds a few weeks ago.

Good luck with it!

Re: I launched an iPhone app yesterday, and all I got were some stupid lessons

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Post by 54mf »

RBerenguel wrote: post #15

The app looks very neat... A pity I use more my iTouch than my iPad for calendaring (which is not very often), and that it's a 2nd Gen iPod: no iOS5, no downloading. Maybe when I buy a new one...

Thanks! Unfortunately, iOS 5 is required for a few of the tricks I'm using in the app. For what it's worth, my fiancee uses my old iPhone 3G and she can't run Faraday either. I really hope the next gen iPhone/iPod Touch will send the low-end iOS5-capable device prices down so they're more available than they are now.
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