Please tell me you haven't used the default wallpaper from OSX Tiger as your background :|
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Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the perspective of someone encountering the site: how does it help? Why should I use your site instead of just emailing them? Or using Scribd? Or putting it on my network shared drive?
Let's say you want to share a PDF with some HN readers in a comment, you can quickly upload the document and share the view link with others. No registration, sign in and all the other stuff. You could have the document on your server. But believe it or not, several people do not have servers to host documents they may want to share publicly. I think if you wanted to quickly share a ppt or pdf without much control ov…
Most PDFs I want to share are taken from an online source, so I'd just link to that source.
When it isn't, it's usually a document that I'm sharing with a couple people (I would email it).
I don't remember the last time that I needed to share a document publicly that I didn't just find online. Since this is such a rare occasion, I probably wouldn't remember this site and just use something more general like dropbox.
I don't really see much advantage of this over dropbox. Actually, I prefer my pdf reader over google's since the find feature works better.
Sorry. Maybe I'm not the target of your app though.
Oh, also, it didn't work for me using safari.
One more thing: The text you see after a file is deleted has a grammar mistake: "Your document succesfully deleted."
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#13First impressions: 1. Please use a mechanism for tracking all files I have uploaded (whether custom registration, openid whatever). Without that, this looks like it can be used only once unless you are capable of remembering those ids that appear in the URL ( http://www.doxela.com/manage/777656602.php ). 2. Provide the upload form at all times as that is the main purpose of your site. For e.g. If I did not enter a fi…
Thank you for the feedback.
1. I may think of a way to do this using, or at least email users the links just as Craigslist used to.
2, 3.Agreed.
4. I will have to look into other uploaders.
Thanks again for the time.
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#14Please tell me you haven't used the default wallpaper from OSX Tiger as your background :|
Sorry, I can't tell you that.
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's say you want to share a PDF with some HN readers in a comment, you can quickly upload the document and share the view link with others. No registration, sign in and all the other stuff. You could have the document on your server. But believe it or not, several people do not have servers to host documents they may want to share publicly. I think if you wanted to quickly share a ppt or pdf without much control ov…
Most PDFs I want to share are taken from an online source, so I'd just link to that source. When it isn't, it's usually a document that I'm sharing with a couple people (I would email it). I don't remember the last time that I needed to share a document publicly that I didn't just find online. Since this is such a rare occasion, I probably wouldn't remember this site and just use something more general like dropbox.…
Thanks Frazzydee for all the feedback. All taken into consideration. And thanks for catching the grammatical error.
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#16Please tell me you haven't used the default wallpaper from OSX Tiger as your background :|
Sorry, I can't tell you that.
Sorry, but you absolutely need to change this. It's overt copyright infringement. You've provided zero attribution to the content creator, and don't own the rights to the work in the first place.
Ripping off someone's work - whether they're an independent designer or a multinational corporation - is not cool.
Anyway, I tried uploading a PDF to demo the service, but it didn't work; the file uploaded and it redirected me to /manage/[id].php, but the page never fully loaded. So, I'm really not sure what to say but I'm kinda bummed out by that.
It's cool that you've created something to share with us, and I really wish you luck in making it your own and getting it to work. Good luck, and feel free to share it later on!
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#17Please tell me you haven't used the default wallpaper from OSX Tiger as your background :|
Sorry, I can't tell you that.
Cscotta,
Thanks for feedback. I have to create more error messages.
Also I frankly did not think it was necessary to give a shout out to Apple. Nevertheless, the background will be gone as soon as I do a simple design.
Thanks again for trying the app and for sharing.
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#18Yikes, first of all: get a designer. Secondly, I'm not sure what the point of this is. Doesn't Google provide sharing with Google Docs? And they even throw in a full featured word processor, presentation, and spreadsheet suite.
Yeah, the design is pretty wonky. It's a simple app: keep the design simple (as in, maybe just one color, instead of a graphic?).
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#19I just uploaded a pptx created with PowerPoint 2010 beta and all I got was "This document type is not supported".
You will definitely need to support pptx if you don't already, and make sure you work with Office 2010, otherwise you're losing a huge chunk of potential users.
Re: Ask HN: Review my application (2nd try).
#20I just uploaded a pptx created with PowerPoint 2010 beta and all I got was "This document type is not supported". You will definitely need to support pptx if you don't already, and make sure you work with Office 2010, otherwise you're losing a huge chunk of potential users.
Thank you city41. I am simply using the Google Doc Viewer embed feature, hence I can only support the document they support. But I will try and find a work around. Thanks again.