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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by khangtoh »

mstefff wrote: post #2

Hey, My latest web application went public today and I'd love to hear some input from everyone. The site is called Streetread. I've been dubbing it 'Google Reader meets Wall Street'. Streetread is a single-page ajax-driven interface that simplifies the process of gathering the large amount of news and data that flood Wall Street every day. The site aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading financial…

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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by axod »

mstefff wrote: post #36
axod wrote: post #26

Scrolling is seriously broken. (ff3/OSX) You display some articles, then I scrollwheel, and things go bezerk. I scrollwheel down and it jumps up and down like a kid with hyperactivity disorder. There's no scrollbar - I have no idea where I am in the list of stories. Trying to match up where I was with where I am now is pretty hard. You've put up/down/top/bottom buttons at the very top and called them "Navigate". So y…

New window link fixed. Worked fine earlier. Strange.

Well, it opens it in both now... also you cannot copy the link :/

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by jme »

mstefff wrote: post #29
jjburka wrote: post #24

Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.

As I said earlier, if you're at the top, you shouldn't scroll up, you should scroll down.

I second the scrolling problem. Once I scrolled down, trying to scroll back to the top was ridiculously impossible. I think that I might have reached the top, but then the list changed directions (?) and started scrolling on it's own. It feels like overkill to me. Just give me a scroll bar and hard stops at the top and bottom of the list.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by dmix »

Well designed, works very smoothly for me on FF3+Leopard. I love how quickly it switches back to the reader.

First two things that stood out to me: 1) I would like to be able to input a stock symbol on my own with out signing up, that would show how its valuable to me personally without jumping through hoops. 2) Search, I'd like to be able to search the multiple sources if possible. I'm guessing your just aggregating feeds, but it would be a quality feature.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by j2d2 »

mstefff wrote: post #2

Hey, My latest web application went public today and I'd love to hear some input from everyone. The site is called Streetread. I've been dubbing it 'Google Reader meets Wall Street'. Streetread is a single-page ajax-driven interface that simplifies the process of gathering the large amount of news and data that flood Wall Street every day. The site aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading financial…

Most people in my firm (used to be one of the top wall st firms until, say, around march :) swear by bloomberg. So do the guys who bought us. You'll definitely need some sort of login system that allows chatting and a LOT more information if you wanna get these people off their bloomberg terms.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by swombat »

mstefff wrote: post #32
byrneseyeview wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you watched someone actually use your app? Here's how it went for me: start at the top, scroll down a few days, scroll back up to the top, somehow end up scrolled back weeks . It's arbitrary to loop after a few days -- if you could collect data going back to the beginning of each company's history, that might be more sensible. I don't see any real-world analogue to going forward from the present and ending up se…

The list of items goes back the latest 100 items. When you are scrolling towards the bottom and you reach the end, it brings you back to the top.

After asking your users for feedback, it's generally useful to listen to them.

Here you have a sample of users who are saying the wrap-around navigation is totally broken for them.

What's the right answer to that? Hint: it's not: "No, you're wrong, it works fine."

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by swombat »

mstefff wrote: post #29
jjburka wrote: post #24

Looks nice. The only thing I found is if you scroll up in the news list area it doesn't stop at today's news , it loops back to a couple days ago. Which is rather unintuitive.

As I said earlier, if you're at the top, you shouldn't scroll up, you should scroll down.

Things you should never tell your users: "You shouldn't do this, you should do that."

If users are doing what they shouldn't do, it's your fault.

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