awwx

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Andrew Wilcox
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Comment · 1 year ago
> Is there a broader need for a service like this?

This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Bizarrely, many search engines seem to think it would be helpful to truncate the titles of search results. For example, the example search "python exceptions" suggested by Kagi on their homepage results in:

> How to Handle Exceptions in Python: A Detailed Visual...

A search on DuckDuckGo displays the complete title.

Comment · 3 years ago
fyi - your fancy scrolling message box at the top of your homepage ("Bringing methane leaks to zero" etc.) is almost impossible to read on my laptop.
Comment · 3 years ago
Behind Closed Doors by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
fyi - some feedback on your website, in case it might be helpful.

I clicked on it first before I read your description here.

Looking at your website, I had no idea what you were doing.

I don't even see "mobile" mentioned anywhere.

The headline says "Turn your app into a link"; I skipped over "APK", and read "get a shareable link to an interactive version of your app"

Um, isn't my app already interactive?

I scrolled through the rest of the page, and still had no idea what you did.

Then I came back here, clicked on "comments", and read your description.

Which was great. Oh, you give a link to a -> mobile app -> emulator -> which can be easily tested without having to get it on an actual phone.

If you took your description here and put it on your home page, it'd be much better :-)

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Comment · 5 years ago
I don't mind scrolling down to find pricing information. It's not a problem to first describe the benefits and then to describe the price.

The problem is that you don't have pricing information on your homepage. "Join today for $29.99 to start." could mean anything: $29.99 for three days and then $200/week.

All you need to say is "$30/month" on your homepage somewhere and then I know what the price is.

If you don't tell me the price I'm going to assume I can't afford it :)

Comment · 5 years ago
Pricing is hard to find; the main site only says "Join today for $29.99 to start." which could mean anything ("$30 for the first month and $300/month after that")

I had to click through to the portal and then get past the kit to find the actual pricing. $30/month is quite reasonable if it works, and it'd be reassuring to see that up front!

Comment · 5 years ago
My favorite method of following a blog continues to be using an RSS feed reader.

(It's kind of like email: email is boring and old-fashioned, and there are many shiny new alternatives, but I still use email more than I use anything else. Same with following a project's progress on a blog using a RSS feed reader).

If you add an RSS feed to your blog, I'll subscribe :)

Comment · 6 years ago
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
> Some features in our products use an event sourcing pattern

Ah, sounds very interesting!

Are there any examples you'd be able to share?

E.g. one example of a TLA+ assertion that your event store is serializable, or whatever you can?

Comment · 8 years ago
https://patentpandas.org/ is a resource site for patent information and for getting help.

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