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Comment by zwayhowder | Hacker News Reader

Just finished the first session, feedback so far:

No offline option, I live in a poor service area so that's a long term deal breaker for me. I tend to queue up everything when I'm at uni. (Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsite, LinuxAcademy, Podcasts, Headspace all offer offline downloads).

The app crashed on my ipod touch, and of course it crashed at a pause in the narration so it took me a minute to notice, then I had to restart.

No seek option that I could find, so I had to start from the start.

I would prefer a one month free trial than a curated foundation set.

I also vote for a webapp (again with offline).

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Thanks for checking it out!

An offline option is definitely something we will be implementing in the future, hope to see you back when we do.

Sorry, it crashed! We're working on a bug fix atm so hopefully it won't keep happening, has only happened to a couple of users so I'm not sure why... We don't have a scrub/seek option due to the fact that being interrupted in the middle of a session would effectively mean you are brought out of the state and would need to re-enter but we could consider adding it in cases of early interruptions etc.

We actually do have a one-month-free trial of the premium service, if you tap the subscribe button it will tell you about it. However, I definitely see how it can be confusing without tapping 'Subscribe', and we'll make it clearer in the new version.

Really appreciate your frank feedback, we're still-relatively-new developers and the app is quite fresh so ironing out these bugs/improvements is really important to us.

I appreciate the seek option isn't much use generally, but this was about 3 minutes in during the intro.

I have no problem shouting you guys a couple of cups of coffee for the service (assuming I like it).

Yeah definitely makes sense for that, we'll add it in for you next update :)

Cheers, I hope you like it as well!

Hey there, just letting you know hat we’ve listened to what you said and added a skip intro function and fixed the crashing issues.

Cheers We’re still working on the download and save function but it will be our next update!

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