marakas

How many times can you use the walk-through-your-house technique without reducing the strength of the associations ? I can see how useful it would be to use it once - milk on your front doorstep, steaks attacking you in the foyer, it makes sense, but what about the next time you want to remember something? Perhaps, the next time I want to remember a sequence of numbers starting with zero and I will have Ozzy Ozborne on my front door step. After that maybe I want to remember something else and I might have something random on my front doorstep like a mental image of Jack Bauer with a gun .. After a few goes at doing this how will I remember what is supposed to go on my front doorstep at all ?? Does anyone have experience of this ?

Have you considered going straight for the paid option ( ie. no free content ) and seeing how much demand you have? I think the app looks a lot better than most of the stuff already out there, and the price point would reassure parents that they are getting a high-quality product for their kids.

Beautiful design, lovely idea, I will be downloading this tonight. Do you have any plans for localizing it to other languages ? ( I think it would be a successful app in Japan )

I would love to stop supporting ie6 but I develop for customers in China and on the last count from our logs over 60% accessed the service with ie6. ( which, surprisingly, is about double of what is shown on your link )

I am not convinced that kids will nag their parents enough to make them pay to upgrade - I suspect most parents will just be happy to let their kid play with the free version.

"Start with the end goal in mind."

Ok, so my end goal is I want you to buy my app .. so how do I work back from that to great copy ?

The only thing I came up with is: "YOU GUY, BUY MY APP!" .. maybe I missed the point?

yes there is that too.. but I would like to add some anecdotal evidence.. I am not Asian and while living here I've gradually adopted the same diet ( and adapted to the portion sizes ) and it has done me wonders.

Just now, looking around the office here in Tokyo - most of the engineers here sit at their screens day in day out from 9.30am through to past 10pm. Most of them don't exercise more than walking to the elevator and maybe standing on the train for the half hour daily commute. They are all, with a couple of exceptions, "skinny" by western standards. Why are these sedentary office workers not gaining the pounds? It's got to be the diet.

The computer room is an interesting idea but I am not sure I want my kid running around in it at the same time as I am trying to use it. For that reason there will always be a home on my coffee table for the iPad ( or what ever tablet takes over the number 1 spot in the next few years )

Considering flying out from Japan to attend, that's if I can arrange some vacation time.

I am still working on the back-end to the system but in the meantime I really want to get some feedback from you guys. I have been building the system in my spare time and have now got to the point where I need some extra motivation to see it through to completion. Honest comments appreciated!