Makes a lot of sense. Save energy, travel further and carry more.
Unfortunate that I won't have a blimp arriving at my doorstep though (yet!) :P
Good luck!
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Good luck!
We think apps like Superhuman have brought the idea of single-key shortcuts into the forefront, and we really like how much more memorable they are for most users.
We'll definitely learn from our users' feedback though, and we'll work on a solution with them if they have issues with it :)
Someone here has recommended tying our values down into some form of legal agreement which prevents the company from straying from them. That would also work for acquisition (though I'm not sure how to go about something like that)
Someone else has suggested not talking about privacy at all, since those who care about it will want open-source browsers.
We're still figuring out how to talk about this. All we want to say is we want to build an awesome product, we try to handle as little user data as possible but handle it appropriately, and we will be doing more to resolve privacy issues in browsers.
If I can assuage any concerns (not the major one of it being closed-source though. I can only say trust us for that :p), no session data is captured when you use the app. We don't know what tabs are open. Now if you choose to sync your data across devices, your session data will then be uploaded to our server, stored encrypted. The only user data we have otherwise is from the sign up form.
Hopefully eventually, you'll reconsider when it looks even more awesome :)
Try out the product, tell us how to improve it, and we will :)
My personal inspiration is Vim (as mentioned in the post), but we want to avoid the initial punishing feeling that learners feel when learning Vim. SigmaOS should still feel faster to use even from the first time you start using it.
(Link should be accessible from the question mark at the bottom-left of the app)
You can help speed this process up by reporting the issue using the question mark at the bottom-left of the app. It increases the count of how many of our users need this so we can prioritize our tasks :)
These are all users who joined during our private beta and who we spoke to personally :)
Thanks!
And honestly, I think SigmaOS is still great (biased ofc :p) when you have a few pages open, just from the ability to organise those pages.
Right now, if you accidentally close a page, you can quickly "Z" (or click the undo button that shows up) to bring the page back.
We were trying to replicate a Typeform-like feel (questions, one by one) to make it more palatable but the goal isn't to bait you into thinking you're done.
Do you think we're missing something to replicate the feeling of a nice Typeform, or do you think Typeforms in general are similarly annoying for you?
Right now, it shows a message on the bottom-left asking if you meant to close a page and suggesting "D" as the shortcut instead.
I think adding a classic mode with those shortcuts enabled should solve the issue. What do you think?
It is our long-term goal for that name to make more and more sense :)
Yes, I use my browser mainly for work, but product demos are usually a bit boring. Also, I was hoping for a little Vim vs Emacs flame war (which didn't happen) and "Backwards Hippo" is just great :D
(And AppAnalytics is needed for it to work with SwiftUI, I think? Might be why we're using that.)
It's true that the signup could be simpler but then I'd worry in the case that someone uses someone else's email, that the real owner of the email when logging in would get access to the original user's session if they chose to sync.
Maybe we could have a more complex solution given some time. Any ideas?
A web-app OS is definitely part of our long-term goal here, and you've covered a bunch of our thought process.
Right now, we're targeting individuals and they recommend it to their co-workers and their colleagues, which allows us to get it to teams in a very natural way.
Of course, we're still workshopping our pricing model. We appreciate the advice :)