casenelson

Is it the examiners who post some of the requests for prior art? If so, it would be nice if their accounts or requests could be badged so other users can be reasonably sure that the research they do will be seen by the USPTO.

Great feedback, I truly appreciate it.

Please feel free to contact me directly: case (at) protopattern (dot) com We really want to work with early customers to make sure that our app does what their apps need.

Thanks for the feedback. You're correct, we're definitely trying to follow the popular advice on here.

Yeah, getting the benefits across is going to be the only way people will see the value of the app. We tried to do that on the front page. Is it the name "overlay" that is throwing you and masukomi off?

Time to go reread copyhackers.

This is my first product, I'd be really interested to hear what the community thinks about it.

We built this because as web developers we're always asked to implement an in app context sensitive help system, but maintaining that help system and keeping it up to date really calls for a crm like functionality. FAQ pages and knowledge bases are rarely visited and users shouldn't need to context switch to find out if there's an answer posted on some subsite.

It's rare that I've seen the Java VM described as horrible.

In fact, it seems to be quite highly respected and seems to be working out well for Scala and Clojure. Obviously, there's also Twitter who partially moved to the VM from Rails.

Would you care to elaborate? Has Linus talked about the VM before?