Thank You to the Hacker News Community

Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by rdwallis on Saturday January 19, 2013 @05:40AM (#5083088)

In the first paragraph of your post you should mention what alias does.

Or at least make your value more clear on the rest of the page. I don't immediately understand what your product does from the small hard to find "manage your aliases in the cloud" phrase.

In fact the first thing I'm aware of when visiting your page is that it is very easy to register for your service. But it's very hard to find out what that service might be.

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Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by benjy1 on Saturday January 19, 2013 @05:44AM (#5083095)

Thanks, I thought it was clear from the three feature boxes at the top of the site but I see what you mean. I've added a few extra words into the opening paragraph.

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Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by rdwallis on Saturday January 19, 2013 @06:01AM (#5083114)

Emphasizing that you're a way to manage bash aliases rather than just aliases might go a long way to clear things up. I thought for a few minutes that you might be a way of managing my facebook, twitter or hn profiles.

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Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by benjy1 on Saturday January 19, 2013 @06:05AM (#5083116)

I've never even thought of it that way. It's great to have other people's perspective.

I've mentioned bash here and there but I tried to be generic because people using other shells can also use the site.

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Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by keithpeter on Saturday January 19, 2013 @11:16AM (#5083755)

Yup, I had to delve deep before I realised it was bash aliases for Linux commands. It was actually the list on the right hand of the screen that lead to the realisation!

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Re:Thank You to the Hacker News Community by kaybe on Saturday January 19, 2013 @06:06AM (#5083118)

Yes, it was the same for me.

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