Show HN: Lonenote App - Make handwritten notes to share moments alone

http://lonenote.com

by wtsui • 13 years ago

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highCs• 13 years ago

Loneliness sharing. I can see teens using this app :)

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Thanks for the comment. I hope it becomes a safe and supportive place for people to share this experience.

cgag• 13 years ago

us lonely adults like to keep it bottled up where it belongs

toomuchtodo• 13 years ago

Seems like a private version of PostSecret [http://postsecret.com/]

EDIT: Just an observation.

mafro• 13 years ago

I could see a usecase for Snapchat-esque sending of an image+note with a friend, where the note is private between the two of you (obviously it doesn't expire like SC though).

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Nice.. great idea.

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Be right back, upgrading instance on DigitalOcean!

wtsui13• 13 years ago

...and we're back!

jcutrell2• 13 years ago

I like this a lot. I hope this avoids Chatroulette syndrome.

Any plans for that?

jcutrell2• 13 years ago

Clarification: I hope this stays unmarred by overly pornographic self indulgence. (Didn't mean to down on CR directly so harshly...)

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Thanks!

Just moderating with care and possibly a trust system where good users are given additional privileges.

electrozoic• 13 years ago

I love writing by hand in my journal and sending cheesy postcards to my friends, so this is very interesting. Looking forward to the Android version!

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Thanks for the comment!

morganb180• 13 years ago

Really like this. Looking forward to using it.

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Looking forward to having you be part of it! :)

bx_• 13 years ago

Downloaded it. Experience is a bit strange, ex: swipe down to refresh doesn't appear to do anything, then after a 1 min lag it refreshes the content. I love being able to handwrite on my photos, but really hate not being able to save my own stuff. Also, seems there's no way to be updated when people comment on or like your content? Had to delete it. Hopefully the 2nd run smooths some of this out :) Still, the handwriting alone was very cool.

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Appreciate the feedback. Totally agree with you, need to improve the content loading experience, allow saving, and add notifications. Thanks for giving the app a try.

morgante• 13 years ago

Talk about niche... I really don't get the desire to (solely) "express their moments alone."

hkmurakami• 13 years ago

FYI the screen with the longish text and the sunset switches a bit too fast for me to comfortably read the text, which I think might annoy some visitors. Maybe swap text for something a bit shorter? Might help with user mood which might positively nudge downloads a bit :)

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Super helpful feedback, thanks!

brokentone• 13 years ago

There was a website like this some time ago, people would anonymously post an image and paragraph, others would comment, identified only by an animal avatar. It was called something like weareeverybody.com or something, but it is no more. Seems pretty interesting -- I'm not sure that the "alone" requirement is necessary though. It seems photo + handwritten note provides the necessary context.

wtsui13• 13 years ago

Interesting. I agree that "alone" may not be a requirement for an app like this. Alone is an experience that really resonated with me, in particular because of having spent a lot of time hacking on things solo. One hope is that by sharing this experience, we might feel a little less lonely when we are alone.

nacs2• 13 years ago

Suggestions:

1) There is entirely too much text when the app starts up. I thought it was the typical EULA scroll-down-and-hit-agree text and didn't bother to read any of it (this feeds into the point below which I'm guessing this more than 1 page of text mentioned).

2) Taking a photo and adding some text immediately uploads to the public server without saying anything about "Send Message"/"Uploading" or any kind of notification or warning. Looks like as soon as I add text its public with no way to delete either? This is a big problem. Fortunately I chose a harmless non-personal image to test with but people are going to end up uploading images that are sensitive or something they didn't want to upload without even realizing they're doing it. This is bad. Now give me a minute to revoke this app's photo album permissions/delete the app before it decides to upload some more photos without any warning..

wtsui13• 13 years ago

These are really good points, thank you. Adding a delete button as we speak, and soon will add more messaging to make things clearer.

nacs2• 13 years ago

I sounded a bit harsh earlier but the upload without warning caught me by surprise. Good to see you're responsive to issues and good luck with the project.

etwigg• 13 years ago

Way cool! The handwriting feature is very well done, and seems like a decent barrier to entry for copycats.

One critique - when I was trying to write letters that required multiple strokes, such as 'i' or 't', oftentimes the screen would scroll away from me as I was trying to do the second stroke, and I would make a mess. Maybe it should disable writing while the text is scrolling? Maybe a sine-interp on the movement to make it a little more predictable?

Once I figured out to pause as I wrote to let it finish scrolling, I was confused that sometimes my last letter was still visible, but other times I had to scroll backwards to dot my 'i' or cross my 't'. The undo and scroll commands are very good, but ideally I wouldn't have to use them them unless I made a mistake.

wtsui13• 13 years ago

This is super awesome feedback. Definitely been thinking a lot about how to improve handwriting input and your thoughts are spot on.

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