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Re: Open Startups List

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Post by lecarore »

Opening this on Firefox mobile with js off by default. Half empty page, ok I'll turn js on. Then the scroll just changed on the end of a scrolling swipe, damn that's not user friendly. Like, I tap down, swipe to scroll, and when releasing it Scrolls by a few items.

Re: Open Startups List

#32

Post by anon1m0us »

tiborsaas wrote: post #27
Etheryte wrote: post #2

As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.

> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? Because they are tracking clicks on each button that goes to an open page. It's not really over engineering, but side effect of good old tracking.

  function trackClick(){
     //steal users' privacy here
     return true;
  }
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $('a').click = trackClick;
  });

Re: Open Startups List

#33

Post by jeanlucas »

ferminrp wrote: post #29
Etheryte wrote: post #2

As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.

Hey! I'm not a developer ... I studied business and work on marketing. I barely know how to code. The whole backend for this is a google sheet and I'm using sheety.co. This is one of the first times I've coded a whole page and I'm really really lame with javascript. By the time I had finished creating the divs with the startups and the code that imported them from the API I realized I didn't have any links to the sta…

Hey buddy, I'm a developer, would be glad to help building that. I think it's great information and hat with great ux is useful to everyone. DM on Twitter: aleattorium

Re: Open Startups List

#34

Post by tiborsaas »

anon1m0us wrote: post #32
tiborsaas wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? Because they are tracking clicks on each button that goes to an open page. It's not really over engineering, but side effect of good old tracking.

function trackClick(){ //steal users' privacy here return true; } $(document).ready(function(){ $('a').click = trackClick; });

The page includes hotjar, so you can draw something nice with your mouse movements :)

Re: Open Startups List

#35

Post by ferminrp »

lecarore wrote: post #31

Opening this on Firefox mobile with js off by default. Half empty page, ok I'll turn js on. Then the scroll just changed on the end of a scrolling swipe, damn that's not user friendly. Like, I tap down, swipe to scroll, and when releasing it Scrolls by a few items.

Hey lecarore, not sure I understand whats happening to you once you turn js on. If you can spare a couple of minutes, can you send me an email with a screenshot or recording? Hello@open-startups.xyz

Re: Open Startups List

#36

Post by dennisy »

andygcook wrote: post #24
dennisy wrote: post #23

I love this movement / idea. I am however interested in what people feel the benefits are to the companies who decide to operate in this manner?

Andy from Tettra here. We recently made all our metrics public using Baremetrics. We're very transparent internally and decided to be transparent externally too. You can check out our metrics here: https://tettra.baremetrics.com/ The honest answer is that when we asked ourselves the true downsides of people outside our company knowing our numbers, we couldn't really think of any that were actually that detrimental. S…

Thanks Andy, do you think this makes sense for B2B and B2C companies to the same level? Do you think there are certain product categories which do not fit into the model, i.e less developer focused?

Re: Open Startups List

#38

Post by droidist2 »

MiroF wrote: post #37
droidist2 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to "free as in speech, not free as in beer"?

I don't have to pay to speak either

That's true, but not what they mean by that saying. It's distinguishing between the two common usages of "free" to clarify that free and open-source software isn't about price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre#%22Free_be...

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