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Thanks. Please let me know how you like using it. That's exactly what we were going for, and I hope that the experience persists throughout.

Thank you. Fixed!

I love this quote. Thanks for reminding me of it! :) For me, the "magic" refers to the magic moment that I experienced when we prototyped this internally. Despite the power of today's on-demand services, I've always felt them to still be rather frustrating. Sometimes the drivers cancel, they get lost, you still have to manage them. We tested this by delivering the product to each other internally, handling all the annoyance of dealing with these services behind the scenes. The result feels like magic. Just text in what you want...and it appears.

In our previous businesses we have scaled large customer support teams efficiently, and we also have handled a lot of online chat-based systems. As long as we can charge appropriate fees, this should be solvable. So far, so good.

This is a great question. We are still trying to figure this out right now. Our vision is to be a service that handles everything - and that means everything from ordering food, to ordering clothes, to booking a one week's vacation in St. Thomas. The fees obvioulsy vary. Any ideas you have about doing this in a more straightforward way would be welcome. For now what we are doing is thinking about what would be reasonable on the fly. Sometimes it's more than people think, i.e. if someone wants milk delivered to their house in Wisconsin, we have to call a local courier, etc. However we've found people are willing to pay more than you would think, too.

Thanks! Yeah, honestly, after deciding to launch this we released a really minimal landing page which I saved here: http://getmagicnow.com/index-old.html - As you can see I made that in about 20 minutes, and was not expecting this. After someone posted it on Product Hunt I spent whatever time I could polishing it up. In general though, I agree, simple websites are much better. Thanks for the kind words.

Hey everyone - this is insane. My friends and I created Magic a few days ago as a side project and it's completely blown up by accident since then. We're getting stormed with messages and orders.

We thought we'd launch it ourselves later if it did well, and other people have been posting it on Product Hunt, Reddit, HN themselves...

I'm here to answer any questions, although we've hardly slept!

Bettir is one part logging tool, and one part a team of algorithms, experts, and doctors that will give you feedback on managing your blood pressure on a regular basis.

We'd be thrilled to have you use our Android web app. Feel free to reach out to me at mike@bettir.com if you have any questions or comments.

We started out charging people $10/month for our service, and most of our users felt that was a fair price. We are playing with some other options now. In the healthcare industry there are a lot of possible payment models.

We have done a lot of internal calculations to prove that we can make the numbers work, but you are right that covering the costs is a challenge for this type of service. Without revealing too much, I'll say that part of our secret sauce is the way that we provide high-quality feedback at an affordable cost.

You would be surprised how many people have an irrational fear of doctors. And that said, even people who aren't fearful generally don't like going. For most, it's just not a pleasant experience.

We'd love to get you signed up, go ahead and email me at mike@bettir.com I can answer any questions that you have.

And you also nailed something on the head that hasn't been addressed much yet in these comments - one of the biggest benefits of what we're doing is that many people around the world don't have access to the best doctors. By giving people care through our service, we're enabling high-quality care in a widespread fashion.

Good question. There are ambulatory blood pressure monitoring devices, but much more common are devices that take discrete readings. At Bettir, we factor in all data points.

Ambulatory is not necessary in many cases though, where a simple daily reading still provides vastly more information than the once or twice a year that most people go to their doctor.

Most of our users record 1-3 readings per day, which provides a wealth of useful data.

Thank you, and thanks for sharing. Shoot me an email at mike@bettir.com, we can explore whether or not there is anything useful we could work on together.

Mike, one of the founders of Bettir here.

While we do track and chart blood pressure data, Bettir is a service that offers daily feedback from experts and doctors on your blood pressure.

Recording your blood pressure is an important part of managing high blood pressure and other blood pressure conditions, but it's only a piece of the puzzle. If you use Bettir, you'll input your blood pressure and other related metrics into our app, and we'll connect you with our in-house specialists who will offer you feedback and suggestions on how to manage your blood pressure.

I don't. If you do and you feel there's a reason to make an intro, send it to mike@bettir.com. Thanks!

There are some interesting blood pressure monitors in the works. I know some internal information from several companies who are working on this that I am unable to disclose at this time. There will be more streamlined, wearable blood pressure devices in the near future.

Before then, it's important to note that current home blood pressure monitoring technology is actually pretty good. There are wrist-based monitors available at your local drug store most likely for $50 or less. They're slightly bulky but they are way better than nothing.

One in three American adults have high blood pressure and it is strongly correlated with increases in death from strokes and heart attacks. Even before the monitoring technology is perfectly elegant, it's crucial that people start monitoring their blood pressure using what is currently available.

Yes.

Your blood pressure is a wave, going up and down throughout the day, week, month, etc. Just taking it once every time you're at the doctor's office is not even good enough for some diagnoses.

One example of this is "white coat" hypertension, which some studies indicate occurs in 20-45% of people diagnosed with hypertension. Their blood pressure is high in the doctor's office but low at home, which can result in overmedication.

If you do have hypertension though, then the big challenge is getting your blood pressure under control. Medication is one way, but without home monitoring, it is hard to find out exactly how well the medication is working.

When it comes to lifestyle changes (diet, sleep, caffeine, etc.), we help you track, monitor, and manage the improvements these types of changes can bring.

If you have hypertension, you are at a greatly increased risk of dying from a stroke or from heart disease, and Bettir is designed to help you manage that.

Wonderful. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reach out to me at mike@bettir.com.

Thanks for your kind comments. :) You're totally right. We believe this is the correct paradigm for the future of medicine. Going to the doctor's office is no fun, and nobody likes to do it. As a result, many preventable causes of death and illness remain untreated. Bettir's goal is to make it possible to manage certain conditions, like high blood pressure, from the comfort of one's home.

Mike here, one of the founders of Bettir. We'd love to have you try it out. White coat hypertension is one of the biggest problems with hypertension diagnosis. For those that don't know, some studies show 20-45% of people diagnosed with hypertension actually only have white coat hypertension, which means they don't actually have hypertension but that their blood pressure is elevated while in the doctor's office.

Home monitoring is one of the best ways to handle this, and it's a really good use case for Bettir.

Feel free to reach out to me at mike@bettir.com, we'll make sure that you get set up to use Bettir ASAP.

We currently have a (beta) mobile webapp that works on Android, and we will definitely have an Android app in the future. We also give our service to some people over email and SMS. Visit http://recordbp.com/ from Chrome on your Android to get it going. It supports being added to your home screen.

Hi, I'm Mike, one of the founders of Bettir. I'm available to answer questions if you have any.

Just added a killer feature many people were asking for that I wasn't sure was possible given the iframe approach. In the latest Chrome and Firefox 4 (but apparently not Firefox 3.6), gtasker.com now saves your selections for which lists appear in each cell. Set up your dashboard once, use it forever. :)

I just figured it out! Now, in Chrome and FF4 it remembers the lists you select. I'm really excited about this...enjoy! :)

Agreed. Most pages don't dynamically create framesets in window.onhashchange. Nevertheless, it clearly should work in Opera and they need to fix it.

I typically don't test in Opera but I was curious about this one so I fired it up. Seems like the initial page load doesn't work, but if you change the hash (or the settings, same thing), it actually will render properly after that.

At some point, if I feel like it, I will write an ugly workaround just for Opera based on this principle. So far 1.81% of visitors from HN are using Opera, FWIW.

Hi, yes, I'm the author. See this reply of mine to another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2278963

To answer your question directly, I am not using an API and I am not scraping anything, I'm just framing Google's pages in a way that I found useful and productive.

Cool. No easy access to an Ubuntu box right now and it's late...I will check in to this when I get a chance. In the meantime, I would be interested to hear:

- Is anyone on Chrome/Ubuntu not having this problem? - For those who are having this problem, any more information would be greatly appreciated. - In my own testing, Chrome on OSX and Windows works fine. Has anyone had this problem on either OSX or Windows running Chrome, or in another browser on any platform really?

Thanks!

In order to get multiple lists working, you'll need to go down to the lower-right corner of each frame and select a different list to be shown in each frame. Otherwise you are just using the same list in different frames.

I'm totally with you that this UI/UX is not ideal. If Google exposed more of a Web API we could do more.

There are plenty of good web-based todo lists, what I wanted specifically was to beef up Google Tasks.

However, now that you mention it, there may not be a good multi-paned todo app out there. Someone should make it. Maybe me, maybe you! ;-)

Odd, I'm unable to reproduce. What version/OS? Just out of curiosity, what happens if you try it in incognito mode? Is anyone else experiencing this?

Please do, and if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them.

It's not possible in traditional browsers, given the way browser security is set up these days. I've done exactly the thing you're talking about though with AIR and my own versions of webkit. So, the effect you desire is possible if you're willing to use a separate executable on your machine. Kinda loses part of the charm for me though, since one of the main reasons I moved to Google Tasks is so that I could do more from my browser.