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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464354

by gxespino • 13 years ago

4 6 13 years ago

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http://bit.ly/18Aybks - right click save as to save .mov file or click to open in browser. Quicktime needed. It is interactive.

tommaxwell• 13 years ago

Definitely a cool concept. Now build it!

gxespino3• 13 years ago

Thanks! I'm getting it as far as I can and validating it with people along the way. The goal is to show some traction in order to attract the right developer.

styts• 13 years ago

Regarding this form of mockup: it was not clear what else I could do besides clicking between the years from the dashboard view. In general, I think many will not have figured out that you're supposed to click somewhere.

So it's subscriptions management app, cool. It won't be so trivial to deduce the subscriptions from the users mailbox, wonder how you'll do that.

gxespino3• 13 years ago

Sorry for the crudeness. In the MVP you can click between years and manually add a subscription.

Does "cool" mean "meh, cool" or "I'll sign up and pay when it's done, cool"

Thanks for the feedback and yes I know the actual app development will be much more difficult.

bjourne• 13 years ago

So you trawl through a users inbox and look for confirmation email from paid services? How do you differentiate between free services and paid ones? And after you've identified the services how is your agent supposed to interact with them?

Getting that right is huge and involves some very heavy nlp. But if you can create it, then there are many much more exciting products you could create than just turning off paid services.

gxespino3• 13 years ago

Thanks for the response. What possibilities do you see with this?

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