Dear News.YC: please review my Mac app, Evom

Post by Disparity » Sun, May 24, 2009, 10:16 PM UTC

jpcx01 wrote: post #14

I love it. I can just drag my Youtube links from the browser address bar over to the Evom dock icon and it queues it up for download. It would be nice to be able to set a "default" capture type so it was automatic. Also, some kind of bookmarklet would be nice. Maybe you can set your own system url handler which would make it easy to catch the links. The popups are royally screwed up. There's no way to get rid of them…

Post by jmtulloss » Mon, May 25, 2009, 1:14 AM UTC

hbien wrote: post #3

jmtulloss wrote: post #2

A few things: Your site needs a favicon I don't understand how to get videos off the web. From your web page, it's not clear to me what your product does. Convert & transfer movies from your computer and the web. could be simplified to something like "Get your movies anywhere." When I open the app, nothing happens. It should open the "Open" dialog by default, I think. The site looks great, and the app is quite clean.…

I like the window that says "Drop movies, folders, or movie links" with a big drop icon, no need to have the open dialog by default =]. I would probably hate having a dialog open right when the app starts.

Post by jpcx01 » Mon, May 25, 2009, 5:46 AM UTC

Zev wrote: post #40

jpcx01 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate DMGs. I know it seems to be the most common way of installing stuff, but, really, what's the point? I have to mount, drag, unmount. Zip's automatically get extracted by Safari, and you just drag it where you want it (or launch it from Downloads). One step, vs 3 steps. A short example: my uncle's been using a mac for 5 years and still has absolutely no idea how to install programs on mac because of this convolu…

Why use a dmg instead of a Zip? See Apple's docs, http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conc... Also, you could have taken 30 seconds in the past 5 years to explain to your uncle how to install Mac apps. Instead of, you know, ranting about how its convoluted the entire time. All you have to do is say "Double click it and drag and drop the file to /Applications." — Though thats irrelevant now, since…

Post by jpcx01 » Mon, May 25, 2009, 5:53 AM UTC

pieter wrote: post #32

pieter wrote: post #19

OK, after testing I have mixed thoughts. The interface is OK (though you really need a way to close the registration pane / beta warning), but the conversion process is painfully slow. It's been converting a 22 minute movie for the past 40 minutes now, and the bar is only at ~15%. Also, do you really need the 'step 1 of 2' thing? Can't you just leave that out, and adjust the progress bar accordingly? Using multiple s…

OK, I'm going to stop this now. It's been running for more than 4 hours, and still isn't halfway through step 1.