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https://idealweek.net

by camidealweek • 9 years ago

61 34 9 years ago

idealweek.net

SpeakMouthWords• 9 years ago

If only you'd planned for the traffic from HN!

Website looks down to me.

TheArcane• 9 years ago

Yup, down for me too.

bdukic• 9 years ago

For me as well.

ainiriand• 9 years ago

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.

bpicolo• 9 years ago

Helps a blog, doesn't really help for the dynamic web-app bit.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

kristerv• 9 years ago

noone can access it, yet it's on the front page - must be good :D

tbirrell• 9 years ago

Its still down

samnwa• 9 years ago

Pwned. Hilarious. Feel free to downvote me everyone, but this made my day.

goodoldboys• 9 years ago

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!

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

chrismorgan• 9 years ago

Congratulations: you have now provided incentive to use utterly untuned WordPress instead of static HTML or anything else faster.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

jason_slack2• 9 years ago

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.

nsgi• 9 years ago

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.

jason_slack2• 9 years ago

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...

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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...

tkyjonathan• 9 years ago

I do this already... with a notebook and a pen.

jaxn• 9 years ago

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...

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

quickthrower2• 9 years ago

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

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

Thanks. Let's see what I can do

tfjaeckel• 9 years ago

Still down.

bastijn2• 9 years ago

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.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

bastijn2• 9 years ago

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.

MarkCole• 9 years ago

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.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

Thanks for your suggestion, I will try to improve the page to reduce confusion. Cheers!

donatas_st• 9 years ago

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.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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.

camidealweek10• 9 years ago

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!

ep103• 9 years ago

So, its jira for personal use

thenewvu• 9 years ago

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.

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