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Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by SpeakMouthWords on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:36AM (#15330314)
If only you'd planned for the traffic from HN!

Website looks down to me.

Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by ainiriand on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:06AM (#15330568)
HN killed it. I dont understand why small projects dont start with a free plan from Cloudflare for example. It removes a lot of pain from your life.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by bpicolo on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:29AM (#15330772)
Helps a blog, doesn't really help for the dynamic web-app bit.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:27AM (#15339480)
Hi, I did consider to use cloudflare. However, I saw that at least business plan could help my service, but it is really out of the budget now.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:02AM (#15339258)
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 kristerv on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:24AM (#15330733)
noone can access it, yet it's on the front page - must be good :D
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by goodoldboys on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:56PM (#15333556)
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 (#15339274)
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 chrismorgan on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:40AM (#15344979)
Congratulations: you have now provided incentive to use utterly untuned WordPress instead of static HTML or anything else faster.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by TheArcane on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:44AM (#15330382)
Yup, down for me too.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by tbirrell on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:31AM (#15331250)
Its still down
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by bdukic on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:46AM (#15330401)
For me as well.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by samnwa on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:21PM (#15331677)
Pwned. Hilarious. Feel free to downvote me everyone, but this made my day.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by jason_slack on Monday September 25, 2017 @09:56AM (#15330471)
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 (#15332091)
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 (#15332194)
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 jklein11 on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:24PM (#15333264)
There are always services like mailinator
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:09AM (#15339315)
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 tkyjonathan on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:32AM (#15330789)
I do this already... with a notebook and a pen.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by quickthrower2 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:18AM (#15337467)
The problem with that is you are not supporting some entrepreneurs money making idea! Your lifetime value is not contributing to anyone's pitch deck.

I recommend you try http://bulletjournal.com

Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:21AM (#15339430)
Thanks. Let's see what I can do
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by jaxn on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:22PM (#15332735)
I also have a pen and paper version, but I am interested to see this one.

I do have a worksheet that I use: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6kdqtcdidbeck4/2016SuperSimpleAnn...

Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:32AM (#15339526)
Great worksheet. I really like to hear your feedback on what I can do to the app to make it be able to replace the pen and paper.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by bastijn on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:32AM (#15336439)
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 (#15339554)
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 (#15340990)
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 (#15336589)
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.

Hope this helps.

Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by camidealweek on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:11AM (#15339334)
Thanks for your suggestion, I will try to improve the page to reduce confusion. Cheers!
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by donatas_st on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:50AM (#15336699)
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 (#15339403)
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 (#15339241)
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!

Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by thenewvu on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:27PM (#15354106)
I couldn't login to the app, I think you should provide a demo account with an ideal data for people who just want to give it a try.
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by ep103 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:17PM (#15349995)
So, its jira for personal use
Re:Show HN: Plan your week and increase productivity by tfjaeckel on Monday September 25, 2017 @07:18PM (#15334948)
Still down.