Congratulations Mark! A well deserved fireballing. Have fun with it!
Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
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#32Congrats Mark! Looks like you'll surpass your 2013 goals before it even starts. I'm a very happy user of the app and have known Mark for years. He is awesome! He has another really neat and surprisingly useful app on the AppStore: Lidpop - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lidpop/id441887602?mt=12 - "Lidpop makes your Macintosh play a sound when it sleeps or wakes up. Close the lid with a resounding clank or a happy sli…
Nice app. I'm going to steal your idea if you don't mind.
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#33Having been a beta-tester of DragonDrop from the start, one thing I'd like to add is how important the concept of user-interaction truly is and how Mark really innovated in this regard. Lots of Mark's friends, including myself, suggested using one of the screen corners as a hot-zone. But since most people usually have other actions associated with the corners and the extra distance required to drag the icon far from the center makes the movement tedious, Mark kept looking for a better way to handle it.
He spent weeks & months trying out different UI and actions, finally coming up with the 'shake-your-cursor' action. It seems trivial now that you see it but it was something none of his potential users could imagine. And since then, he's been refining the app constantly to get it to its current state, including the rotating background and optimal thumbnail for a variety of mimetypes. I'm so glad to see the app finally getting the attention it deserves.
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#34This is just brilliant. Please create a Windows equivalent and make my whole year.
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#35Congrats Mark! Looks like a few HN folks have already used this app in the past. How did you reach out to an audience to build up beta testers? And, more importantly, how do I make sure I'm on people's hit list for beta testing new apps?
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#36Well done. This is the sort of app you look at and think "Why isn't this built into the operating system already?"
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#37This is delightful. Apple, please buy this guy out like you did with CoverFlow.
Re: Show HN: my Mac app just got fireballed
#38Having been a beta-tester of DragonDrop from the start, one thing I'd like to add is how important the concept of user-interaction truly is and how Mark really innovated in this regard. Lots of Mark's friends, including myself, suggested using one of the screen corners as a hot-zone. But since most people usually have other actions associated with the corners and the extra distance required to drag the icon far from…
Reading the description, I felt that waiting for the overloaded page to load was going to be a waste of time. Having seen the video, I am contemplating tossing him some cash.
Drag, think... doh! wiggle, store. Dig, dig, find, unstore, drop.
That wiggle makes all the difference. Come to think of it, I might unconsciously wiggle things while I'm trying to remember where I meant to drag them to.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, Sean. :) I wrote this up a few weeks ago to help give other developers their own plan B in case of similar difficulties: http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap...
If you were rejected from the App Store for the mouse shaking behavior, how'd you finally get it approved?
I had lots and lots of conversations with the App Store appeal board, a plea for direct download customers to write to Apple and tell them they want the app in the store.
Apple rejected it for "interfering" with a standard system operation. What ultimately got me in was an email I wrote pointing out that the app PopClip (a great utility from @pilotmoon) was in the store and also enhanced a system behaviour.
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#40Congrats Mark! Looks like you'll surpass your 2013 goals before it even starts. I'm a very happy user of the app and have known Mark for years. He is awesome! He has another really neat and surprisingly useful app on the AppStore: Lidpop - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lidpop/id441887602?mt=12 - "Lidpop makes your Macintosh play a sound when it sleeps or wakes up. Close the lid with a resounding clank or a happy sli…
Nice app. I'm going to steal your idea if you don't mind.
Ha, the idea for the app or the idea for the silly sounds? ;)
Note: my wake-up sound is currently the boot sound effect form OS/2 Warp 4, just because I love weird, retro-computing goodness.