Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support) • Hacker News Board

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by ironkeith » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 4:25 PM UTC

ironkeith wrote: post #50

Maybe this is just me, but I couldn't get the site to work. Check my profile for the email address I used to sign up. First try, Firefox 3.6 on Snow Leopard: - Opened iPhoto and dragged a photo in, progress bar filled, but no picture appear, and no indication of success was given. Check file info and realized it was a NEF. - Repeated process with a JPG. Progress bar filled, but same results. Next try, Safari 4.0.4: -…

One last, really minor thing:

When I create a new event, and click "Untitled Event" to edit it, it would be really nice if it auto-selected the text for me. As is I had to click, then double-click, so it's three click for a one click operation.

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by Sam_Odio » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

ironkeith wrote: post #50

Maybe this is just me, but I couldn't get the site to work. Check my profile for the email address I used to sign up. First try, Firefox 3.6 on Snow Leopard: - Opened iPhoto and dragged a photo in, progress bar filled, but no picture appear, and no indication of success was given. Check file info and realized it was a NEF. - Repeated process with a JPG. Progress bar filled, but same results. Next try, Safari 4.0.4: -…

Thanks for the heads up. We've had an unexpected rush of uploads this morning as the east coast woke up.

We've started additional AWS Instances and things should be working normally and just a few minutes.

UPDATE (9:52 PST): We now have 5 machines processing & resizing photos. There are still 6,500 photos left in the upload queue from earlier today. We're processing them LIFO so it may take us a few more minutes for us to get to the photos uploaded early this morning.

Since the queue is so large expect new photo uploads to take longer than they normally should.

If you have any more problems please email us directly: human -åt- divvyshot -dºt- com

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by drusenko » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 11:25 PM UTC

est wrote: post #46

drusenko wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in our experience, a drag drop action is incredibly hard for a user to perform, and should really be reserved only for when it add significant UI context to the action. i'd stay far away from having users drag and drop goods into a shopping cart.

But once you get it you will be very addictive to it :D A drag drop shopping cart is far more interesting than a cart webpage, more intuitive, quickly manageable.

revenue is not made by "interesting" products. and for a shopping cart, i'm not sure it's necessarily that much more intuitive.