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I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.

There's only one logical outcome: we need to introduce the !really-important marker.

Back when I was a lowly customer services rep for an online store I replied to a customer email with that spelling. She did not see the funny side..!

From the little explanation offered, this sounds like a great idea. I'm often going to the cinema by myself because none of my close friends are into the same movies as me. Plus there could be room to expand into different niches with it, like dating.

I think having the Facebook sign in is fair in this case.

On the downside, the appearance of the site looks pretty poor, a classic case of bootstrapitis.

I missed out on IntelliJ last time because of the downtime, but not this time!

That's disappointing to hear. I was a few days away from pulling the trigger on one of these but maybe I'll just lump up for the 13" MBP retina after all.

Some of the articles surrounding this seem to hint that the app was failing. Is this true?

Furthermore, kudos to the founder for creating this thing at such a young age, but is he really going to have a space at Yahoo?

Agreed. There's been a few of these plugins and saas offerings recently, and neither of them feel quite right to me.

It's cloaked so only google can see it - try changing your user agent to match googlebot's.

Great looking site, good font, and an invaluable collection of resources. But the name is confusing - the .js in it suggests it's a javascript library to me?

Also your github link 404s.

By 'hits', do you mean page views or visitors? Just curious.

I used to go down the repository/unit of work route but I found that just adds loads of unnecessary abstraction and complication. Now I simply expose the data context through an interface and inject that into my controllers. For testing I use a fake data context.

An excellent idea and I'm sure there's definitely a gap for it, as long as you're a decent and enthusiastic reviewer and writer.

What makes these screenshots "gorgeous" or "beautiful"? They look like pretty standard screenshots to me.

Why make this a pay monthly thing? You should offer a block of uses on a pay-as-you-go scheme, like 20 uses for $10.

I remember when you launched. How are things going? Is this a full time endeavour?

Maybe you could open source it and let others add those features?

The internet is great. It's like burying one of those time capsules full of stuff that was important to you at the time, then digging it up 20 years later and marvelling at your naivety.

Great, thanks for the reply. I'm also working on something to compete with Easybib. But at the moment it definitely falls into the 'non-comprehensive' category that you mention.

Can you elaborate?

Distraction free writing. Except you do it in the biggest distraction on your computer - the browser: where burning an hour like it's nothing is just a Ctrl + T away!

I was expecting it to be free as well, to pad a portfolio or similar. We have a freelancer thread every month do we not?

Because it hasn't been dominated by domain squatters and it has a techie association (input-output).

But I still wouldn't use it for a serious business venture. Look at how a lot of previous x.io companies have now switched to xio.com.

I was just thinking the same thing, but it's a bit like kickstarter without the cash pledges. Which means all someone has to do to endorse your idea is click a button (potentially), which is no means an intent to buy the finished product.

Secondly I'd be pretty pissed if I put my idea up on a service like this, demand for it skyrockets, then someone steals it and develops it before me.

Wow, that's a lot of changes! It sort of looks like you went from an OSX-esque appearance to Metro... that's quite interesting.

To quote Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

A bit like Hittail?

Oh come on. "Instagram for pixel art"? When will the baity associations end.

The description on the app store sums it up perfectly - "Draw! is a pixel art editor. Draw 16 x 16 animated pictures and share them with your friends."

Awesome. How about animating it so you can see the posts actually moving up and down?

I think this is the second 'bootstrap designer' posted to HN today alone.

Here's my gripe with these things. It seems like we're going backwards. Years ago everyone used Frontpage and Dreamweaver to create their pages, which was fine. But it soon became apparent that handwriting your own HTML gave your far greater control and added way more value, and so use of these visual editors died down. But now they're back for revenge, except from the browser this time, and stuck with a totally overused css framework which in my opinion [when used at stock] completely devalues your design.

As a then designer who took the time to learn HTML and CSS during the WYSIWYG cull of the early 00s - which wasn't that hard - I just can't see why these editors are needed.