Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

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Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 7:24 AM UTC

eagleal wrote: post #118

Congrats on launching! I would append this css (for the footer) #top-footer .footer-logo {left:-21px;} #top-footer h3 {background:none;padding-left:0;} There is no reason to use bullets (dots) when you use inline lists (#top-footer h3). #top-footer .footer-logo is not aligned with the paragraph below it.

Done. Thanks!

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

#132

Post by AndyKelley » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 7:31 AM UTC

kabuks wrote: post #107

AndyKelley wrote: post #106

Your features page should be very well done and professional because it's how people will decide whether or not to sign up. Here are a couple issues: spelling error: The home screen of your project is the first page your will see. It shows an overview of your team’s work with: "Your" should be "you" Also use PNG instead of JPEG for the screenshots. It's a big deal.

Thank you Andy. I'm ignorant about why PNG is better. Can you teach me?

Short answer: Use PNG for everything except photos, in which case you should use JPEG. It will be better for both file size and quality.

Long answer: ehhhh, look them up on wikipedia.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

#133

Post by kabuks » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 8:03 AM UTC

Just took a look at google analytics from yesterday.

4000 unique visitors from HN, and only 4.4% use IE!

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

#134

Post by davewasthere » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 10:31 AM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #23

zyang wrote: post #5

is this it? http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm

Interesting. Looks a bit like pivotal tracker. See for yourself: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/482# http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm/dashboard

That was my initial take too. I love pivotaltracker and don't particularly like to see it ripped off.

That said, it's an amazingly functional interface. But I'm hoping some degree of permission was obtained first.

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

#135

Post by yayitswei » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 11:19 AM UTC

Typo on your features page (http://rm.bettermeans.com/front/features.html), search for "esitmate"

Re: Tell HN: I'm launching in 30 days. No matter what. Hold me to it

#136

Post by jtheory » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 1:00 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #23

zyang wrote: post #5

is this it? http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm

Interesting. Looks a bit like pivotal tracker. See for yourself: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/482# http://rm.bettermeans.com/projects/bm/dashboard

Well, there's that one background image ("dropzone_repeating_pattern.png" in both; I'm not sure of the original source for this image). But otherwise it seems like a sort of standard JS-GUI interface, and not all that much exact overlap in functionality beyond commonalities you'd see in anything that tracks tasks through stages.

FWIW, it looks like BetterMeans is using JQuery-UI and PivotalTracker is using YUI, and I don't notice any commonalities in their source with a quick review... so it may well just be mostly that bg image (which they may have both gotten from a common & free source).

Dunno if you see a smoking gun somewhere, but I haven't thus far.