Show HN: PineHQ – We built a app that lets you check-in with yourself every day

by iamdeedubs • 12 years ago

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fweeks• 12 years ago

Interesting idea. Constructive criticism from my end as a potential user: I always try to get a sense of what is "included" in the app when I download, but after searching through your site for a few minutes, and visiting your page on the app store. I'm still not sure, and I didn't bother to download to check it out. More pictures would be the first step and more explanations of your features What do you mean by "check-in"? My locations? Me checking in to the app to see how im doing? When I "connect" with friends and family, what does that entail? Showing my mood for the day, seeing there? Just knowing they to are using?... Just me!

renjie2• 12 years ago

Hi, thanks for the comments and feedback, really appreciate it. Im on the team that built PINE, so I’ll jump right in and respond to some of the points you’ve raised. Hopefully, you’ll re-consider downloading PINE and giving it a shot. We’re still very much in prototype mode, so our landing page has the minimum amount of information needed to launch the app. We’ll be updating this in the coming weeks. That said, we’ve also outlined how PINE works in our blog post https://medium.com/@pine/pine-your-daily-check-in-beta-relea... , I’ve also outlined my experience on PINE thus far https://medium.com/@renjie/my-experience-using-pine-1768c312... as well. And we’ve got another blog post from another team member http://lewwwk.com/post7583 , for good measure. For V 2.0.0 on the App Store, we didn’t realize that we couldn’t add screenshots until after we had already submitted the developer release. The forthcoming V 2.0.1 update will have the screenshots that we included in the blog posts. Now as for check-ins, the check-ins are NOT location based. Rather, they are personal and private check-ins, in response to the question, ‘how are you doing?’, where only the user can view them. When you connect with family and friends, all they’ll be able to see is that you’ve checked-in on PINE, but not what you’ve actually written down in your private reflection. By being connected on PINE with friends and family however, you’ll be able to send each other nudges, encouraging each other to check-in on PINE. Hope this clarifies a few things. Thanks!

wingerlang• 12 years ago

Cool. I've been thinking of building the (almost) exact same thing for a while.

renjie2• 12 years ago

Thanks! If you do end up downloading and using PINE, would love to get your comments and feedback!

Show HN: PineHQ – We built a app that lets you check-in with yourself every day

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