Show HN: Flutter HP Redesign + Play/Pause Spotify, WMP via Gesture on Windows7
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(edit) To elaborate - there are people who care deeply about privacy, and there are those who don't (really) give a damn about it. Former won't touch Flutter with a pole no matter what you say. They won't touch it even if Flutter were open source. I know because I am one of them. Latter group however is substantially larger and it basically includes everyone with a Facebook account. Having built a product that could've been seen as privacy-invasive, I was in a situation similar to yours and the take away was to counter complaints from the former group with a simple "this product is not for you." It saves nerves, time and money.
Great site redesign by the way. Not sure if it'd would help with getting $ customers, but it's certainly un-ordinary.
I don't have a problem with pausing Spotify because I have play, pause and skip keys on my Mac and I just hate having my webcam on, I know it's not recording or going to the cloud but on the few occasions I tried to put my hand up to pause and play it wasn't fast enough to fit into my workflow.
I see where this can be useful in the entreprise and other areas and as the technology develops it will be important though.
We hope you give us a try after we add few more gestures!
Let us know if it doesn't work for you!
Also, just a heads up that your /about/ page and your /jobs/ page have dead links to http://flutterapp.com/jbos at the top and are missing <title> elements. I can also confirm lukifer's CSS bug occurs on FF13/Linux as well.
One note: there seems to be a CSS bug when scrolling right on a browser window less than 1000px wide (Chrome, Mac).
Also: have you considered aiming marketing and features more at the media center market? Every demo pic is of a laptop, and yet turning down the volume from the couch with no remote seems far more useful.
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Really cool concept though.
In our tests it results on ~10-20% additional drain. We hope to make utility high enough so that it doesn't matter.
Pausing music is a moot point if you use a Mac and iTunes. Speech recognition built into the os can do this.
"can't reach" is such a first world problem that building an application for it is laughable.
Am I missing something?
I'm not the best guy to value your services as I use bash, vi, and Grep for everything. I understand the love for technology but the amount of time spent building this app seems a little silly considering it is as far from solving world hunger as one could get.