Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:02AM
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Yes, you're right. I didn't plan well for this amount of traffic from HN. I've increased resources for the servers now, I hope you will go back and review it. Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by goodoldboys on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:56PM
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perhaps its a new kind of market fit validation - you're only allowed to spin up a micro instance and if it gets overwhelmed, you've validated your idea!
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:05AM
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Sorry for your bad experience. I did launch the service with 2 linode-2gb and 2 linode-1gb, and yes it didn't fit with the situation. I've increased the resources now. I hope that it will be a balance between my budget and server performance. Thanks for your message.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by jason_slack on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:56AM
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Your website says: No credit card or personal information is required.
But you requires Google ID, that seems personal to me...
Edit: yes, I can also "create" an account, but that too is personal information.
Edit 2: after the down vote, let me explain. Calendaring and scheduling is inherently personal. Some websites for demo purposes give out a unique URL, not tied to a log-in. This seems appropriate in this case.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by nsgi on Monday September 25, 2017 @01:03PM
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The site is down, but if it just requires an email address and password then I wouldn't class that as personal information. It's easy to create a throwaway.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by jason_slack on Monday September 25, 2017 @01:15PM
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true about the throw-a-way. I could imagine just how much burden this would carry on mail providers if even 1% of the population created a throw-a-away (or more than one!!) for trying sites like this. At 7.5 billion people on this earth...
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:09AM
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Thanks for your feedback. My intent was not a demo, I would say it is a trial. So the app will need something to identify the user, and I chose email because this will be the main contact channel in case you have further requests such as: password reset, questions, etc...
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by bastijn on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:32AM
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Apart from the comment on personal information, which I totally agree with (came here to comment just that), no free demo will diminish the people who try.
Every product demo should have at the very least a demo account or other means to try the product without registering. Period.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:34AM
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Thanks for your suggestion. I can have some demo account for testing, but I don't know how I could support multiple accesses from single account. Let's see what I can do.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by bastijn on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:50PM
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If you have a single account and all people running the demo share a session that is already fine. Even if other users add all sort of things that's fine. Just reset the account state every hour or every day to start afresh.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by MarkCole on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:14AM
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Hi, just thought I'd chime in with my experience.
The Call to action buttons link to a login page, but the buttons "Start building your ideal week today" seem to suggest this would take me either direct to the app or at least to a signup page. This confused me a little, and I'm sure it would confuse others.
The login page itself doesn't look great for converting people, the "create an account" button gets drowned out and it took me a second to find it.
I'd suggest linking directly to a signup page and having a seperate link on the homepage for existing users to login.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by donatas_st on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:50AM
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Hi, I would really like some way to add recurring events. Also, tasks should have a description capability that would be displayed on hover/click. Also, why can't I add colors clicking on the task itself, but only on the subtask? That's inconvenient when coming from Google Keep.
If you addressed those points, I would consider trying it out for more that 5 minutes.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:19AM
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Hello,
Recurring event is supported now. If you click on event's title to open Event details, there is a check box named Repeat, it's the place you define recurrence.
Color tagging is supported at goal level. If you click on the goal's title to open goal details, there is a section called Color. The color of a goal is displayed as thick right border of it and its related events.
For now, I don't support background color like google keep as I think it will be too many colors on the calendar and it might hurt the eyes.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity
by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:01AM
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Hi all, sorry for the down time yesterday. I've fixed the site vulnerable issues and increased resources for all servers. It should work now. Thanks.
I built this application by myself and manage everything alone, so please allow me to have some delay in response to your comment or issue. Thank you and have a great day!
Website looks down to me.
But you requires Google ID, that seems personal to me...
Edit: yes, I can also "create" an account, but that too is personal information.
Edit 2: after the down vote, let me explain. Calendaring and scheduling is inherently personal. Some websites for demo purposes give out a unique URL, not tied to a log-in. This seems appropriate in this case.
I recommend you try http://bulletjournal.com
I do have a worksheet that I use: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6kdqtcdidbeck4/2016SuperSimpleAnn...
Every product demo should have at the very least a demo account or other means to try the product without registering. Period.
The Call to action buttons link to a login page, but the buttons "Start building your ideal week today" seem to suggest this would take me either direct to the app or at least to a signup page. This confused me a little, and I'm sure it would confuse others.
The login page itself doesn't look great for converting people, the "create an account" button gets drowned out and it took me a second to find it.
I'd suggest linking directly to a signup page and having a seperate link on the homepage for existing users to login.
Hope this helps.
I built this application by myself and manage everything alone, so please allow me to have some delay in response to your comment or issue. Thank you and have a great day!