Show HN: How much does a non-programmer app sucks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6154868

by flimbu • 13 years ago

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Made my first web app 100% alone. As i'm not a programmer but a CEO of a startup, I feel great. But, how much does it suck? functionality, design, everything...

take a look at: http://wastats.pythonanywhere.com/

hath995• 13 years ago

What's it do? You might start with a better explanation of what it is and why anyone would want to use it for whatever it does.

metricman• 13 years ago

You could just call yourself a programmer and be done with it. If you wrote a program, I mean, isn't that... lots of people do it without much formal training.

It looks like a good basic app. The layout/design stuff seems well-intentioned but not tuned or styled. The functionality seems to include some pretty general things, like uploading files, and displaying some database query (or whatever).

So, good work. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to do the NSAs job for them by uploading my chats. I already pay my taxes...

auganov• 13 years ago

Well you are one now. Actually you'll do yourself a favor thinking of yourself as a programmer.

Anyways I don't use WhatsApp so cannot comment on functionality. Design wise: -confusing navigation: "Start Now" and "Chat Stats" leads to the very same page. Would be more logical to exclude it in the top bar. -bad typographical hierarchy: info that should be emphasized is actually de-emphasized. Just didn't know where to begin. And please limit text line width, that one long line is just a pain to read.

I have no clue what it's doing.

coin• 13 years ago

I pressed submit without selecting a file and got:

Internal error

Ticket issued: wastats/134.21.203.171.2013-08-04.15-00-48.fd885357-c8af-45ce-8316-75bdffc004e2

flimbu• 13 years ago

Thanks to all of you for your comments and advice. I'll try to improve the tool next weekend.

There is one main issue: the process of getting the chat history and uploading is too long. I still can't figure out how to shorten it.

Thanks again!

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