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there is the possibility of the breaking point coming too late.

Good discussions online happen in established communities, something news websites don't know how to build.

+1 for NoVa (I am in Arlington)

Thank you for creating this. I have been thinking of making one for years because all the Arabic alphabet apps in the app store are really bad/low quality. Now I have no reason to do that :) I let my 4 year old take play with it and here is some feedback from her and from me observing her use it:

* The buttons on the start screen are too close. My daughter kept touching the wrong button and ending up in the browser in your cafe press store * The cafe press store. I hope you are planning on integrating it in your app. It really disrupts the experience when you leave the app and open the browser * When you start reviewing the alphabet, my daughter had a hard time with the arrows. Her instinct was to swipe, which didn't work * The menu in the top right hand corner is also easy to touch by mistake and end up interrupting the experience

Hope this feedback is helpful to you and congratulation on an excellent app!

Thank you. Inspectlet looks promising. I will give them a try.

I can't tell but if I had to guess, it service like http://dribbble.com/

ok, good point. However, based on my experience with HN, I bet the second segment of people you describe are under represented here. I generally see swagger discouraged around here so a strategy like this is not effective, even if it made the frontpage.

Not all publicity is good publicity.

Indeed, all my tweeps from Syria have gone silent. Phone lines seem to be down too. Calling Syria gives me "all circuits are busy" message. This is not a good sign.

Anti-Semitism is a term that, in the western culture, is used to mean anti-jewish. When you treat it literally, you are ignoring a long and established history associated with it. See this for much more articulate explanation than mine:

http://www.ibishblog.com/blog/hibish/2010/12/16/arabs_and_an...

<quote> anti-Semitism is not the optimal term for anti-Jewish sentiment, among other things because there are other Semites than Jews, but it is the one we have, and comes with a long history and a well-established meaning. Rather than critiquing the term or coining a neologism to substitute for it, speakers of English should simply understand the term's history and commonly accepted definition and use it accordingly. </quote>

edit: corrected typos

Yes, I do mean Mobile Safari. A bookmarklet will be great. And I can't wait for the backup/sync/sharing. Good luck.

Best recipe manager on the iPad hands down. Bought one for me and one for my wife. Here is what I hope to see in the future:

* Ability to send page from safari to paprika

* Ability to copy URL from paprika browser (currently the recipe capture comes on when trying to select content of address bar)

* Access to safari bookmarks from paprika

* Online storage and syncing (you can make money on subscriptions)

* Shared recipe book, synced through the cloud, for family sharing (That way my wife & I are able to share one resource)

* Wiki-style recipe editing to make experimenting easier without losing the original recipe.

Hope that helps and keep up the good work.

What other languages are you planning to offer? (Dropdown on translation form says more languages are coming soon)

I think your are on to something. Report how many people saved a recipe (and unsaved it?), how many printed it and how many views it received.

Additionally, I think the mentioned websites ignore an important fact about recipes: they are not static. Most recipes have variations in technique or ingredients. Many cooks, as you stated, substitute ingredients that subtly, or not so subtly, change a recipe. If a mechanism exists to capture those variations (wiki style, maybe?), those people might have an incentive to come back and share their experience rather than their impressions.

But aren't you punishing your target audience by making them pay money, no matter the amount, so you can "weed out the chaff?" If that is their motivation, I don't like it.

Sometimes the best UI is the one you don't remember.

So in order for you to track your metrics, you willing to annoy your client's followers. I am not sure that's a good idea.

You are not crazy. It is just people on both side of the debate are feeling a little extra defensive about the subject.

Because according to Andrew, they make $1 billion in sales. The site is making a lot of money with the existing design. I can see why they don't want to fix what is not broken.

wtf? Identifies Arabic correctly but displays the Saudi flag. I like the service, though, despite of this minor annoyance.

I worked on many multi-lingual websites and always used the name of the language in its native form (Arabic => عربي, Greek => Ελληνική, etc ) to offer language selection. It works very well for me. I agree with others who advise against using flags for this.

Down the road from both of you in Silver Spring, MD

It is one thing to say start your business for the right reasons but this takes it a bit too far. Hope people don't get discouraged.

Boycotting large companies rarely works without a highly organized campaign and participation by the masses. Unlikely in the case of Apple and their very popular iPhone. I agree, though, that we need to demand respect as customers.

In her jurisdiction, it is illegal to use the phone while driving without a hands free device.

And I don't understand his complaining about EA not charging more for their game. Is he saying they are not making money? Or that they are not making enough money? It is odd to see someone argue that.

Quicksilver is still better because it is more than a program launcher. QS provides a wide array of tools at your fingertips like a calculator, terminal commands, email commands, image manipulation etc.

But to get people to sign up, you need to show them data or explain the benefit of signing up. Read the rest of the comments on this page on how to make people sign up. People will not sign up just because you ask them to. Give them something.

I agree. Marketing is, largely, how you interact with your customers. But there is still a need for the work described in the question. As a business you still need to do outreach to new customers. And that is the type of work I would rather someone else do.

Great, a twitter application that is simple, easy to use and does not generate noise. Nice work.