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I really recommend MIT's Entrepreneurship 101 course on edx.org, it taught me a lot about finding your end user, which is what you're doing now. https://courses.edx.org/courses/MITx/15.390.1x/3T2014/info
1. No idea what this does, even after logging in and clicking around.
2. It wouldn't load for me at the start/seems VERY slow. Saw some comments about a 5MB file... maybe that is it?
3. "Slack meets github issues" means nothing to me! Who is your target audience? Those both seem like dev tools, but it looks like you're hitting consumers?
Good luck!
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I don't know whether you really are just hedging your bets to karma farm or whether you believe what you say but the author has stood up and asked what people think. What on earth is the point of everyone on here going "oh well it's not up to us to say what we think; he should just start stacking up debt on credit cards and bank loans until it's finished and then the market can dictate!" That is the logical conclusio…
1. I don't comment often, and when I do, it's not to earn magical internet points. 2. I am certainly not advocating diffuse positivity. If you knew me, you would know positivity is not my strong suit. :) There's nothing wrong with saying that the product seems unfocused or overly complex, or suggesting that the creator focuses either the execution or its messaging. That's useful, constructive feedback that the creato…
Pretty sure that's a bug.
Other than that...Good luck!
the loopz seems to be a cool concept. Still I'm not sure what problem you are solving:the website doesnt help me to understand anything and only the blog post helped. btw I'm in a similar situation : 34 with 2 kids + one on the way and I'm almost out of money after investing on my 2nd startup. You shouldn't see this as a desperate situation but as a challenge with an opportunity to focus on what really matters ( in y…
Would you be interested in connecting? I'm looking to connect with entrepreneurs with families who are still trying to make it all happen.
Wow, yesterday was surreal! :-) I’d just like to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who has commented on this so far and to all those who sent encouraging messages of support via email as well. It really makes a difference.
I honestly didn’t expect anyone to notice my post and with all the unexpected traffic that came from it, the servers caved in unfortunately! As soon as I noticed, I increased the capacity on Heroku and everything should be working fine now. So a big sorry to anyone who couldn’t access OpenLoopz yesterday - please try again!
I also want to apologise for the tone of my original post. I wasn’t looking for pity and I definitely didn’t want to give the impression this has been the worst time of my life or that my family have been seriously affected or anything tragic like that. For the most part this has been an amazing ride and my family have been behind me 100%. I had enough savings to be comfortable financially throughout (up until now at least!) so it wasn’t as bad as all that. I’m not saying it hasn’t been tough because it has, but for the most part it’s been a very positive experience and great fun!
I am a programmer who sucks at marketing and I know that more than anyone, so all the harsh feedback is more than welcome! From this feedback I now have the missing piece of the puzzle and I feel like I can finally do the landing page some justice. You guys make it sound so easy, but when I am staring at a blank screen, trying to think of ways to get the message across about a project I am so close to and know inside out, I always come up blank. But that’s no excuse - I just need to stop coding and start learning some new skills so Challenge Accepted! ;-)
So thanks again. I’m going to focus on the landing page today and hopefully I will have something much better to show all you very soon.
I really like the project and think it has a lot of potential but could do with some polish. Well done!
I think you should use the demo page to tell a story. Instead of pictures with 'demo1', 'demo2', etc let's have a family planning a vacation. There's a group chat about destination and everyone is posting airbnbs/hotels they find. Then there's a loop for items list to see who's bringing what. Oh, did Cindy say we spent too much at restaurants last year? Let's have another loop so we can plan who's cooking what for dinner as we take turns for the week. May as well create a shopping list so we can get all the ingredients for the week in one or two goes. etc...
You could have a series of these to show off the product.
Good Luck!
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I hope whenever I submit something to HN that 1) someone cares enough to be this critical\constructive and 2) I am adult enough not to take it on the chin and not get sulky. I'm most worried about #2
I am the OP and I would hate it if I had a few "this is cool" comments and no constructive criticism. I really appreciate it. When I first read some of the harsher feedback on here, it did feel like a punch in the face - I won't lie ;-) But then I took a deep breath and read it again objectively and actually tried to take it in. And 99% of what's here is excellent feedback. I wasn't expecting any responses, honestly…
Can someone explain to me the apparently common obsession with creating to-do lists and chat programs? I can't figure out why so many people devote this much of their time to building to-do lists.
Developers tend to have a lot of activities and tasks they need to keep track of, and it's too much to remember. So we all wind up making lists: on paper, on whiteboards, in text files, in email, in apps. These lists always start out being fairly simple and manageable, but they also always grow into an unmanageable mess. Being developers, we wind up blaming the record-keeping tool for the unmanageable mess rather tha…