adamkiss

Someone in the inability field for 20 minutes still can't hyphenate.

Even then would work (on youtube, for instance) if the owner was entertaining enough, while eating delicious chocolate.

I am not questioning whether OP did something wrong; If he did, as a paying customer (and first offender), I would anticipate some kind of notification email, or something at least.

Sure, for repeat offenders: repeat notifications, then close account, refund adequate part of payment and that's it. You should never irreversibly delete someone's data. Moreover when he's paying you.

Ah, that didn't cross my mind. Thanks

Does it even care if it's rejected or not? There is a prior patent, doesn't that count as 'prior art' (i.e. this new patent is just overpriced paper)?

> They seem to have the same quirky creative culture

I see what you did there.

+1

Well, at least they "Think Different" – "Here's to the crazy ones…"

:D

> But a simple 2-strike rule is worthless.

If paid service unrestorably deletes data without first getting in touch with client, it is worthless, as you should have moved away first time it happened.

for $10k-$15k and good brief, you could get let's say 5–8 freelancer designers to do a PAID creative pitch (there's your difference between spec work and 'normal' creative pitch), get multiple high quality (and relevant) options, and give the job (and the rest of the money) to the designer you like most.

Basically, you pick few designers, who you think will fit the job most (looking through their portfolio) and will pay them for the time pitching to you. That's it.

FYI: I really wanted to sign up just to try out the service, but I can't, I picked GitHub (because that one takes less information than, say, Twitter ["Application will be able to follow new people"]), but I just keep getting redirected to sign up.

>> I know the founder of remenis.com he explained to me the idea in Dec 2011

That's good for him, but you can hardly clone something, that's an idea in someone's had, right? Thus it seems that - shocker - there was no cloning involved.

>> Whats the difference between this and blogging socially on wordpress.com or blogger or tumblr?

I bet that the authors can explain this better than I can (if they haven't yet in this post on HN)

Simple WHOIS shows that storylane.com is online since 2003 (although this service probably wasn't there, but I am a user of storylane since about march 2012) and remenis.com was created on 18-Jun-12, so you've got that clone the other way around.

I can't believe the amount of positive reactions to this. Am I the only one who is reading something along the lines "Yeah, they don't want us, and we don't care. We won't do anything in hopes of people switching iOs for Android" in this?

If that's true… they must be naive, at least.

You kind of already do target mobile – except, of course, professionals quoting wikipedia.

I thought so as well first time, but it seems they do, see 'subset' section here: http://www.edgefonts.com/#url-specification

Also: http://jsfiddle.net/6zUQu/1/

It seems that only the example on their site includes 'default' character set. Note that, though, sadly not all fonts have different than latin-1, or partial latin-1-ext.

Neat? I thought it sucks for me for the same reason… Once I started text selecting as I usually do, it went black, then back, then black… annoying.

I can't believe this isn't on the homepage. Such a great story of clash of 'the doers' on one side and poor management and no vision on the other side.

First: congratulations; doing something meaningful AND succeeding at the same time, moreover at that age deserves some congratulation, and some nods. Good work.

Second: With rather good spirit and having something to say (obviously, you know your stuff), I'm rather surprised that your blog doesn't mention the obvious design inspiration, and even adds some copyright.

Okay, then it's the javascript. But what javascript (running jQuery+UI) providing async script loading and few UI elements, can cost $100.000 to debug on IE8+, for instance?

I'm not saying there [on the 4ormat] isn't technical solution that could be this expensive to debug on IE, but none is visible on 4ormat page and nothing less obvious is mentioned in the article, thus diminishing article's credibility;

You know, instead of something awesome like 'we implemented geolocation, offline aps and 20-years-too-soon-UI, so we ditched IE', they are doing 'Hurr Durr bad IE can cost up to totally out of my ass pulled $100.000'.

What is this? There was no real argument, no mentioned technologies, that were the ice-breaker.

Sure, in IE6, even the PNGs weren't working properly, but, talking layout, IE7+ is mostly a question of 5-10 additional rules (on small scale websites) and IE8 actually works without any (mostly), save for a css3 features like border-radius, etc.

As for the design, having less visual effects and no rounded corners doesn't have to be a problem – most of the designs work without it rather well (not to mention 4ormat's design doesn't use plasticity, gradients and shadows that much)

This article would gain much more credibility if it mentioned at least one or two technological obstacles that take you more than 30 minutes to sort out.