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Re:Google Fortifies Chrome on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:45PM (#2658200)
I'd love to learn more about this malicious facebook script blocking thing. Surely that'll have adverse effects on bookmarklets?
A few things:

1. I logged in and got taken to some other service ("Momentomail" or something.) Bit confusing.

2. I'm not too keen on the design. The logo seems a bit amateurish to me.

3. I like the concept, but I feel the "Can you type an email?" thing to be misleading. What does email have to do with this, aside from logging in?

4. There were a few broken images on the WYSIWYG editor. Might just be my machine, though.

5. When I create a page, it's published online with your site's wrapper all around it. It'd be nicer if it were just a blank HTML page -- with my content -- and maybe a footnote for KyMaLabs. Again, a bit misleading.

6. I think you could make the email-to-page thing more successful by perhaps doing something like Posterous does -- send an email to create a web page? You could provide a public email address, solicit HTML mail and then host them online. I'd use that.

Keep trying, I'm sure there's promise in this idea :D

EDIT: One more thing. If I were you I'd scrap the whole 'services' thing, drop the KyMaLabs brand and just focus on creating one, rock solid service. Solve a practical problem really well and provide a service that people really need to use. Don't spread yourselves too thin.

Re:Learning from Mistakes: Your Startup Failure Story on Monday May 23, 2011 @03:10AM (#2575212)
Sounds obvious now, but don't obsess over abstracting everything in the application ("Oh, I need to create my own authentication system with redundancy and openid support!") where it's not necessary.

I've spent countless hours fumbling over parts of code which weren't really integral to the prototype at all... such as a custom javascript library...

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup: http://thewallmachine.com on Saturday May 21, 2011 @10:55PM (#2572473)
Nice. I've seen this done many times before but you seem to have nailed the concept.

I think you should make the application's virtues more prominent on the landing page though; what makes TWM better than all the others?