I like it, and I signed up. I don't want to get emailed at 8pm -- that's after my internet cutoff, so I faked a timezone. But, it would be nice to just choose a time.
Also, who did your webdesign? I like it!
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Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#32I think the vertical spacing between the various components is too much. If you could move things up a bit it would work real well. The colors, fonts, and graphics are very soothing and welcoming. I just didn't expect to scroll down so much.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#33You wanna drop that ned flander out, not everyone know him
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#34Very cool. Does that mean YC has a vested interest in your side project?
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#35Quick first glance feedback on the page, take it or leave it: a) "the easiest way to" lowercase start and then "Write your life story" uppercase start. Seems weird to me. The other way around or both uppercase. b) Top bar seems empty, maybe an actual logo (that adds some other color/shade) would chance that. c) "See an example" needs no-Javascript fallback. I assumed a video behind it. Pleasant surprise to see someth…
Also wanted to write: a, b, c, d, x
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#36Accept PGP-encrypted mail seamlessly and you won't need a privacy policy except for those who like throwing their lifelog at random strangers. Be sure to use PGP/MIME to include the old message in your mailing.
Of course, setting up PGP, let alone remembering the passphrase (gasp) is a lot to ask of the typical user who needs to use his mail client as a text editor.
Otherwise, it's a cute idea, really. Please excuse cynicism.
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#37I notice that a huge part of my daily life is recorded in email conversations with other people -- it would be cool if I could forward a conversation to post@ohlife.com and it would automatically make it a part of my journal and make it aesthetically pleasing at the same time. Great job on the execution of this app. I have talked to others who have had this same idea, but their execution was ugly/unexcting/etc. This…
Taking your thought a step further, let's also save the comments you make on others' blogs and bring them into your journal/blog as well. At the end of the day, I don't need another blog or a slight variation on blogging technology. I need something that basically blogs for me. If I can add value to my site by adding comments like this one to other people's sites (then pressing this "magic" button (maybe a bookmarket…
I need something that basically blogs for me.
Tumblr is pretty close to doing this, but the problem is its just context-free noise. It's echoes from a very, very noisy set of interactions that you perform. I had a Tumblr blog that harvested photos, blog posts, Twitter, last.fm etc etc. and it all meant absolutely nothing.
This isn't really blogging, it's journaling. Writing a diary is supposed to be therapeutic because you're writing down the things you dare not talk about with others (maybe not even your SO). It's not about what you do, it's about how you feel.
That's why I would like to see encryption mentioned somewhere, and pushed hard. I wrote one entry to see how it works, but I'm going to disable the notifications until I know that my personal outpourings are not actually being read by others.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the kind words! We're currently working on encrypting the entries - this is an MVP and we initially wanted to see if people like the idea.
It does say on the home page that "Only you can see your entries." If they are not currently encrypted, that would seem to be untrue.
Even if they do encrypt it, they will have to be able to decrypt them server side to send you your month old posts. That means the owners are technically capable of also reading all of your posts.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#39I like it, and I signed up. I don't want to get emailed at 8pm -- that's after my internet cutoff, so I faked a timezone. But, it would be nice to just choose a time. Also, who did your webdesign? I like it!
We'll be adding the ability to change when the email is sent, and it should be out by next week. Clever workaround though!
And thanks for the design compliment! We did it all in-house, so we really appreciate the kind words.
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#40This is really cool. I'm curious if you can read the entries?
That's a very difficult feature to implement, since the encryption has to be 2 way. It's much easier to achieve this with passwords, because all the system needs to do is validate supplied passwords (as opposed to reproducing the passwords themselves).
You could use a passphrase in the head of your email.
"Open sesame" or something equally corny.
However, you'd need an inversion of what is proposed here. Instead of emailing you an entry from the past then asking for your entry for today, it would need to ask for today's entry (plus passphrase), then reply back with an entry from the past instead.
I don't think the latter version is as compelling as the former, but encryption is sort of a must have.