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You also could allow the user to create an account and access the website directly but remind him that he needs to verify its email address. Of course it depends on your website and what you are offering, but allowing user to access your application as fast as possible should be a good idea.

Take the example of twitter which allows you to create an account and start using it without the verification. But it reminds you to verify the email everytime you log in.

You can find previous discussions about it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053370 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5082923

After reading your comments it seems that you are mostly trying to get in touch with people interested in your project/idea. It's been a long time since I sent an email to a service to register or at least show interest.

Why not add a field to add my email info as most launchrock pages do? It would be a lot easier than copy/pasting your target email address to email you.

(EDIT: You might also want to use a dedicated email address for your project instead of one based on you HN tag, mainly because I want to remember why you are writing me back later if you do and your address should provide that which it does not)

You can also use the last digit of each number. x^N will always end with a '6', y^N with a '1' and z^N with a '5' for N>=1 so ut can't work

There was a discussion about this subject 3 months ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417367

Already discussed here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4894401

What about the YCS11 company Yardsale https://www.getyardsale.com/ ? What are your main differences compared to what they offer?

Not exactly because you don't have the ratio idea where you have to share XXX MB with someone before having YYY MB for yourself.

In France Free is a well-known ISP offering this kind of feature with its ADSL box. You open your WI-FI to others and then you have access to every other WIFI shared by users from this ISP.

That's pretty awesome! Wish I had this when learning the hiragana/katakana!

Two remarks : it would be nice for the divs not to move while using it. I'm not sure why but when trying to keep up the pace I was always distracted by something moving on the page. I think it is beacause your divs below with % of appearance/success was moving everything when going from a 1 digit % to a two digits?

Also, when seeing an hiragana and thinking it is a one letter such as "u" instead of "mi" the system does not really detect my "u" as wrong because it only has one character and expects two. So I can change my answer and get the correct one.

There was multiple discussions here on HN where you might find some answers. The most recent I found being: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4673106

I thought most of the email clients did that already and I just checked a few which in fact don't! I'm pretty sure thunderbird does this if you want the same feature on an external application.

already posted yesterday twice. You can find the discussion here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815658

Ok you might want to add this kind of info on your website as I guess a lot of people might have the same questions.

You should also add the possibility to register for the launch by email if you want to ensure people interested in your trailer know when you launch!

There's not a lot to go on on the website except the trailer.

Which platform will you support? Do you have an idea of the price range you'll target? Will you offer an SDK to allow people to design their own level/maps as you can do in Super Meat Boy for example?

Anyway the trailer gives a good idea of the type of gameplay you can expect. The problem will be to use the "gimmick" of moving the camera to change the "level plan" in a lot of different ways to avoid too much repetitions. It reminds me of something but I can't put a name on it yet ! But it seems as fun as trying Portal for the first time so that's encouraging

jgrahamc already posted it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815658

Don't change your name just based on my comment! At least wait for some other opinions! Moreover, using "pouch" you will lose the original meaning your were going for and people might think you sell small bags or something (which is the meaning of the word "pouch").

Yeah ok so it is the same word as in French. I'm not a native english but I'd say that adding the "O" changes the pronounciation you're looking for if you target an English market. And having T-S-C-H at the end of the word seems a bit "too-much" because the word "pouch" in english should have the exact pronounciation you want so people might write that and be confused.

Where does the name come from? Because in French it sounds like the word "putsch" meaning "military coup" or "takeover" and in English it does not seem to mean anything except if you look to "to pout" or "a pouch" ?

How would you pronounce it and are you sure that someone hearing you would understand how to write the name of the application and reach the website or email you easily?

Is it really critical? If you take the datepicker of the TFL official website (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/) they start the week on sunday too. But I agree it can be a pain when you assume the first day is monday.

clickable : http://appfail.net

I like the idea but could you tell what are you key differentiators from something like http://www.muscula.com/ which is one I was considering to use right now?

Something I don't understand in your pricing is the difference between professionnal and business about the history. For professionnal you only have 60 days history for up to 12,000 issues and for business you have 180 days history for up to 40,000 issues. The problem is that if you reach the maximum for professionnal in 60 days you'll probably reach the maximum of business too in 180 days, wouldn't you ?

Also what do you mean by "Web Sites (Applications)" is it URL based, domain based?

Another small point, under Firefox, if I click on "Pricing" on the header, it goes to the pricing by showing/hiding every div and it's not a nice effect.

EDIT: You might also want to add a menu for "Features" because when you are on "Pricing" or "Support" it's not intuitive where to go to see more info.

There was a long discussion on HN on friday, you can find it here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788902

They released an Android App with their first bundle that allows you to check for updates and install them easily.

https://www.humblebundle.com/app

Someone "launched" Kamuze recently on HN. No idea how good it is, I tried commenting on his post but he/she never came back. You question made me remember it so maybe it would suit you? And as I said in my comment on this post, if you read/speak french senscritique.com would do this also. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597796

I really like the design which is clean and the colors relate to memory for me. But the site still feels a bit empty. You have more explanation than most of the iphone apps websites i've seen, meaning not just a name, a one sentence pitch, a screenshot of the app and a link to the appstore. At first, I did not even see you add stuff below as it really looks like a "landing page". You might want to add something to show you have more info below? You might also want to add more details to what your app does, how the design looks for each case (taking a picture, checking a trip, etc.)

The 67% also confused me at first. I don't know if I'm the only one but I first thought of a "loading animation" more than the point where you currently are in your development. Now that I know you reference your work in progress, it would be nice to know if you have an idea of a deadline for the 100%. If you're at 67% but started last week or two years ago it's not the same.

I don't know if it's wanted but when selecting text/image the cursor change to look as if I can "edit" your content. And the second screenshot (of the map) in your presentation looks "deformed" (don't know the proper english word, but like it's not to scale).

I'm not sure I would buy this app as is but maybe if you offered more options like export the trips/memories online, share it with friends easily? But it seems that this kind of app already exists in Free (such as travelog, trip journal, etc.) how are you different from them or what more do you offer?

Anyway keep up the good work and add new functionalities!

I like the design and it seems pretty well thought. One thing I really enjoy is the ability to test the product without having to create another "fake" account first just to see what I really could do with it so kudos to that.

You indicate you are in beta right now, do you plan to stay always free or will you offer paid tier later?

It's hard to see how you're different from upverter.com in the end and what would be one (or more) killer feature(s) that make your solution the one to use in th end ?

The idea seems interesting. In france we have already this kind of social network with www.senscritique.com and they also handle books and video games too, don't know if you've heard of them (as they seem limited to French language for now)

After a few searched I found a few :

https://splitabill.com/

https://wesplit.it/

http://splitwise.com/

https://www.paydivvy.com/default.aspx

I've not used any of these so I just hope you find one that suits you.

I have the RSS feed in Netvibes that I check during the day/evening. I don't read everything, just skim through the titles trying to find what seems interesting to me. And from this I mark as "to read later" every article that I like but is too long to read now or to be sure to come back for comments later.

Then I also skim through the Ask HN/newest posts depending on the workload.

You don't have to follow everything, read everything, just skim through the topic that interest you. Overtime you'll instinctively dismiss a lot of articles just by their title.

And anyway, just go to the "frontpage" of HN to see which threads are really popular at a given moment.

What about using a virtual machine? That way when you have a hardware failure you just switch computers, even on an old one temporarily and are still able to work properly?

That's what I'm doing to ease when I'm working from my parents' home for example where they have multiple computers and I use one available.

What about the model used by flightfox where the customer pay a fee upfront to find the best deal available? It would change a bit from what you are currently proposing but it could be a lead.

I know it can seem strange/hardcore at first but if you guarantee the best deal they can get, in the end you might make it work.

You could maybe offer this option at first and see how many people are willing to pay to ensure a good offer by hotel for a large group of people.