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Hey all, I'm the developer behind Shortcat. Feel free to ask me questions or give me feedback! I'm on a short holiday at the moment so I might not be able to respond super quick.

If you do use the app and it crashes, please send a crash report and a short description what you were doing. It helps me a lot figuring out what the problem is. I post up known issues at https://trello.com/board/shortcat-bugs/51ac6a3711f6b34606001... (public Trello board) so people can vote and comment on issues.

I strongly suggest reading the README as I haven't baked in a tutorial to the app just yet.

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Loving the product, have been using it for 20 minutes or so now. I can see myself using this super heavily. Thanks!

Bug report: http://i.imgur.com/wTwXpx2.png

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Great!

That's quite odd... WebViews are a hard beast to figure out cause web pages generally contain quite a few elements (sometimes 20k+), which makes it rather annoying to search and deal with. Chrome with the --force-accessibility-renderer flag has issues with element positions due to caching (I think). Safari has much better support but it's a tiny bit slower than Chrome. Right now, I'm focusing on other features. Hopefully browsers get better!

I'm using a mouse-less browsing plugin anyway, so don't need shortcat in the browser.

I've had it installed a while now and found that I almost never use it -- surprisingly.

One thing you could support to fix that: why can't I click on the menu bar of an application?

One thing that annoys me: whenever I cylce through open applications with cmd-tab, shortcat is there.

Does it have a "my mind has been poisoned by emacs" mode?

I haven't used it much yet, but it seems nice.

How do I pay you for it? :-)

I'll be adding licensing in the next month or two :)

What will it cost?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822

Great Idea, great execution, great name. I love it so far! Thanks a ton!

Yeah, despite my suggestion in my other comment. This is great stuff.

Looks like a great idea… any chance of Snow Leopard compatibility?

Not at this point, sorry :(

The issue is that people on 2007 macbooks could upgrade to Lion, but Lion is a tad slower then Snow Leopard and they need all the performance they can get. But thanks for the great software!

I love this! Would love it even more if it let me choose from the open tabs (the open coversations) in adium...;)

I believe this is an issue with Adium and the way it reports the accessibility details for the tabs. It seems to be the entire tab bar rather than just the tab itself (I use vertical tabs). I haven't found the time to send in a patch just yet as I'm sinking most of it into Shortcat. Hopefully an Adium dev ends up using Shortcat and fixes it!

Similar issue occurs in iterm: http://i.imgur.com/UBybMP4.png

Would you mind sharing which font that is? Looks a bit like some form of Courier. Is it a specific zsh theme (oh-my-zsh), or custom? :)

Maybe add some kind of window movements with a keyboard? To fully get rid of mice.

Try slate: http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate/

Good job, thank you so much. Public Trello board is a brilliant idea too :)

So how do you plan to make money with this?

The app is in Beta. I imagine he could sell it for a reasonable amount.

The app icon's a little creepy.

Heh, it is a bit. The reason is probably the uncanny valley effect[1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Who did your logo? Very cute :)

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