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idealweek.net

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If only you'd planned for the traffic from HN!

Website looks down to me.

Yup, down for me too.

For me as well.

HN killed it. I dont understand why small projects dont start with a free plan from Cloudflare for example. It removes a lot of pain from your life.

Helps a blog, doesn't really help for the dynamic web-app bit.

Hi, I did consider to use cloudflare. However, I saw that at least business plan could help my service, but it is really out of the budget now.

noone can access it, yet it's on the front page - must be good :D

Its still down

Pwned. Hilarious. Feel free to downvote me everyone, but this made my day.

perhaps its a new kind of market fit validation - you're only allowed to spin up a micro instance and if it gets overwhelmed, you've validated your idea!

Sorry for your bad experience. I did launch the service with 2 linode-2gb and 2 linode-1gb, and yes it didn't fit with the situation. I've increased the resources now. I hope that it will be a balance between my budget and server performance. Thanks for your message.

Congratulations: you have now provided incentive to use utterly untuned WordPress instead of static HTML or anything else faster.

Yes, you're right. I didn't plan well for this amount of traffic from HN. I've increased resources for the servers now, I hope you will go back and review it. Thanks.

Your website says: No credit card or personal information is required.

But you requires Google ID, that seems personal to me...

Edit: yes, I can also "create" an account, but that too is personal information.

Edit 2: after the down vote, let me explain. Calendaring and scheduling is inherently personal. Some websites for demo purposes give out a unique URL, not tied to a log-in. This seems appropriate in this case.

The site is down, but if it just requires an email address and password then I wouldn't class that as personal information. It's easy to create a throwaway.

true about the throw-a-way. I could imagine just how much burden this would carry on mail providers if even 1% of the population created a throw-a-away (or more than one!!) for trying sites like this. At 7.5 billion people on this earth...

There are always services like mailinator

Thanks for your feedback. My intent was not a demo, I would say it is a trial. So the app will need something to identify the user, and I chose email because this will be the main contact channel in case you have further requests such as: password reset, questions, etc...

I do this already... with a notebook and a pen.

I also have a pen and paper version, but I am interested to see this one.

I do have a worksheet that I use: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6kdqtcdidbeck4/2016SuperSimpleAnn...

Great worksheet. I really like to hear your feedback on what I can do to the app to make it be able to replace the pen and paper.

The problem with that is you are not supporting some entrepreneurs money making idea! Your lifetime value is not contributing to anyone's pitch deck.

I recommend you try http://bulletjournal.com

Thanks. Let's see what I can do

Apart from the comment on personal information, which I totally agree with (came here to comment just that), no free demo will diminish the people who try.

Every product demo should have at the very least a demo account or other means to try the product without registering. Period.

Thanks for your suggestion. I can have some demo account for testing, but I don't know how I could support multiple accesses from single account. Let's see what I can do.

If you have a single account and all people running the demo share a session that is already fine. Even if other users add all sort of things that's fine. Just reset the account state every hour or every day to start afresh.

Hi, just thought I'd chime in with my experience.

The Call to action buttons link to a login page, but the buttons "Start building your ideal week today" seem to suggest this would take me either direct to the app or at least to a signup page. This confused me a little, and I'm sure it would confuse others.

The login page itself doesn't look great for converting people, the "create an account" button gets drowned out and it took me a second to find it.

I'd suggest linking directly to a signup page and having a seperate link on the homepage for existing users to login.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your suggestion, I will try to improve the page to reduce confusion. Cheers!

Hi, I would really like some way to add recurring events. Also, tasks should have a description capability that would be displayed on hover/click. Also, why can't I add colors clicking on the task itself, but only on the subtask? That's inconvenient when coming from Google Keep. If you addressed those points, I would consider trying it out for more that 5 minutes.

Hello, Recurring event is supported now. If you click on event's title to open Event details, there is a check box named Repeat, it's the place you define recurrence. Color tagging is supported at goal level. If you click on the goal's title to open goal details, there is a section called Color. The color of a goal is displayed as thick right border of it and its related events. For now, I don't support background color like google keep as I think it will be too many colors on the calendar and it might hurt the eyes.

Hi all, sorry for the down time yesterday. I've fixed the site vulnerable issues and increased resources for all servers. It should work now. Thanks.

I built this application by myself and manage everything alone, so please allow me to have some delay in response to your comment or issue. Thank you and have a great day!

I couldn't login to the app, I think you should provide a demo account with an ideal data for people who just want to give it a try.

So, its jira for personal use

Still down.

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