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Will _definitely_ be in touch.

I've pushed new cards, a couple of which are less douchey. If there's still not one that fits the bill I'll make one with the exact text above. Thanks again!

Fixed. Let me know if it's still confusing. Thanks again.

Great suggestion. Working on alternatives now but, I'm kinda a dick. Any non-dickish suggestions?

The pre-order is a one-time payment forever. Thanks, we'll make the wording more clear.

Sorry for the confusion. Yeah, we built a prototype for Android. Now we're asking folks if folks want a full version for the iPhone.

Thanks for the suggestion. Fixed.

Thanks for the feedback, I think you're right.

In mTurk, you can select which countries your workers are in and you could use Skype instead of Google Voice.

By and large, I'd agree with you, but consider that people are still people when they're off work. By that I mean, if the decision maker you're looking for could easily be on Mechanical Turk in their off time. I can promise there are Music Teachers on mTurk, just like there are marketers, hr reps, sales people, real estate agents, etc.

Sounds like a really interesting product, and something we'll definitely check out, but to be very clear...interviews != surveys.

In terms of customer discovery and problem identification, absolutely nothing beats interviews. Surveys may have their place when it comes to getting demographic information or validating a market size, but interviews should not be replaced with surveys.

Sweet on my way!

Thanks for the feedback!

Can I get the address that was giving Bounce trouble? We'll take a look.

Rest assured, this was rolling around in our heads longer than two weeks ago, and we had no idea a SW team had tried to build something like this.

Not that, that would have changed anything anyway... :)

Thanks for sharing. Our take:

- We try to only run GPS when your next calendar event is coming up.

- Right now we have an application-wide setting that says, "Add X minutes to my travel time." We're hoping people will use that to accommodate the fact that they have to walk to their car, find parking, etc. Eventually we'll make this configurable for each event.

- Yeah, traffic estimates aren't 100% accurate, but they're better than crossing your fingers and hopping in the car. :)

Good call, thanks for the suggestion. I'll see if I can come up basic privacy agreement. Thanks.

+1 for the lack of friction in the Android Marketplace.

We'll try it out in a place where we can't get a GPS signal make it better. Thanks again.

Thanks a ton for the <title /> issue. Fixed. Video forthcoming!

Re unbounce, yeah we'll build our own site shortly.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the feedback. It should get your location from the network if GPS isn't working. Will look into it.

Yeah, place lookups are really rough now - that's really high on our priority list. Forthcoming version versions will be much better.

Thanks again.

Good call. We'll start working on a video shortly.

We use some rudimentary location lookup APIs now, but hope to improve them going forward. We should have place lookups soon (e.g. starbucks, etc.) but places that don't show up on Google maps searches probably won't work.

Thanks for the feedback.

Big thanks for the feedback Jon.

1. Bounce doesn't actually (at least it isn't supposed to) use your GPS all the time. It should poll for updates every 30 minutes until it gets closer to when you need to leave, then we ask for updates the closer we get to your "Bounce time."

2. Yeah, we'll make it smarter so you can customize which events it notifies you for and which it doesn't.

Thanks again.

Btw, if any HN readers want a copy, let me know your UUID (here or at vibetogether.com). Latest version also vibrates phones, so you can use it w/o an OhMiBod.

The OhMiBod runs off audio signals, but it doesn't require both audio channels to operate so I send the audio signal from the app through one channel (i.e. the right speaker) while the phone conversation runs through both. To have a conversation that doesn't include the clicking sound I generate to pulse the vibrator, you just listen in on the left headphone.

Now, that means the conversation is also driving the vibration, but that can be fun too. :)

mmm...hiring? ;)

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Freudian headline?

Thanks for the feedback. As opposed to meaning individual companies suck, we wanted to say, "the way to find the right online services today" sucks. It's just not simple. In the video we tried not to be too harsh on any one solution - we're all startups at the end of the day.

As for "they suck and we won't", I'm afraid our pitch there isn't even that good. More like, "they suck and we might not." All about testing hypotheses and seeing if we can solve the problem better (and make money doing it).

TBD. This experiment is all about testing hypotheses. If it turns out we can sustainably provide value and generate revenue, perhaps there's a business here. If not, we'll see what fell short and seriously consider fixing it.

There's a really nice, and free, extension for chrome called StayFocusd that I use.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip...

You can mark sites you visit as "time wasters" (e.g. news.google.com, hulu.com, HN, etc.) as well as how much time/day you should be allowed to waste during work hours (customizable). It then logs the time you spend on those sites and after you've reached your daily limit, it will redirect you whenever you try to visit them.

Of course, you can work around it, but I find their redirect page wakes me out of an almost knee-jerk reaction to waste time throughout certain times of the day.