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Sounds fascinating - can't find you though

I think Microsoft Project does Gantt's

I quite like it - my iPhone really hates it though.

The vast majority of preferred artists mentioned here, are from the early half of the last century. Does this say something about HN'ers understanding and awareness of contemporary art?

It's a curious contrast with how most people reading HN are working at the absolute cutting edge of 21st century technology. Curiously, art has always been driven by advances in modern technology; whether that be in metal casting, developments in pigments and dyes and of course, the invention of the lens.

I agree completely with this...no idea what's going on here, but it intrigued me enough to spend time poking about trying to find out, and actually come back to this thread later to see if anyone could enlighten me. Really like the design, you've obviously got something, I just can't work out what it is, which from your side, is a problem.

Enlighten me please.

It's really, really difficult to read because of the font sizes/layout/design. I couldn't get past that so I clicked out. Looks like a useful idea though. Maybe hire a designer?

I agree with this poster - it looks great, like something I'd want to use, but I read the whole landing page and still didn't know what I could use it for.

It isn't - unless the point is that he's hacked the law for 30 years

Surf, learn and practice bushcraft techniques, daydream about owning a campervan for kids/bikes/surboards, take photographs of clouds, go fishing but never catch anything.

What's with the crazy devil-eyes cat as a header?

Hopefully a lot, which is what the article seems to say.

Now I feel encouraged to build that 'dating based on your favourite music' website we've been thinking about.

http://www.movix.co.uk/muzixs.jpg

Hire a designer - do it quick

It seems like the comments you posted from Apple explain pretty clearly why, but according to the App Store, it looks like it's for sale - or isn't it?

Great idea about the API's - thanks

Effective and interesting choice of blue tones. I like the point and click pictures on the front page - I actually wanted to click to see what happened. so I did...then you want me to sign up. Please give me something before you take.

If I could see what the site did, before you signed me up, I might go for it. All I know so far, is that I've told you my three favourite foods, and that I want to go on a "Camping trip at Yosemite".

I'd love it if you'd answer my question to you.. where do you get your first sign-ups for your social networking site? If there's no one to network with, what am I doing here?

I actually can't abide the 'mac club' mindset, it's partly the reason I avoided the platform for so long - the idea of being part of a brand 'family' is hideous I think. The association of the fact that you use one particular brand over another, in some way makes you superior to other computer users, is an appalling, but highly effective piece of marketing hype.

Just as a machine to use, I find it very efficient, I couldn't care less who made it.

Posterous - great eamil interface, effortless blog creation and updating and the Share on Posterous widget rocks

SDNWOTN

It is? Why? What did I miss?

That seems like a great app - well done.

Minor niggle, change the tacky stock photos in the header and footer of your web page. People make subconscious judgments on the quality of your product by subtle clues they pick up on in how you present it. You've done all that hard work in the coding, seems a shame to not to maximise your potential sales by not giving your full attention to your sales page.

I have NO idea what this is about.

Nice design though.. so that intrigues me. I'm guessing some sort of social networking, but there's no way you're going to force me to sign up before I find out what you site's about.

Tell me, if it is a SN site, how do you get your first 10,000 users, so it gives the slightest chance of me finding someone I want to network with?

Assuming that you started on day one, with just your nearest and dearest signed up, where do you get your real customers (are they customers I still don't know if you're providing some sort of service) or users from? I'd love to know.

After 15 years of being a PC advocate, last year I switched over as the main development platform we were using was Mac only.

I would never go back to PC now, and I can't even give you a succinct or informed reason why, there's just something about using a Mac, when you get used to it, that just feels 'right'.

I'd go Mac.

Is that - yes they're considered spammy, or yes it's a valid form of getting feedback? Or both?

I would say that in the end, it's all about the user experience, and that unfortunately or not, comes from the design.

The cleverest app, or piece of coding is useless if the user doesn't get what they want from the experience of using it.

Brilliant design doesn't have to be flashy or clever, and of course, the simplest interfaces are always the best. There is a huge amount of skill and intelligence involved in taking what is a potentially complex idea or concept, and expressing to the user, not only how to use it, but also what the app is capable of, in a simple, graphical way.

There's been a of of discussion on HN about the new Sequoia site. I think I'm one of the few who think it's brilliant, because it already assumes a lot about its users, and that if they're on the site, they probably have a pretty good idea already of why they're there. The site is tailored to those people, they don't need to be hand-held with descriptions and explanations. This would be completely out of place in many other instances, but the designers knew their users, and what their needs were, so built accordingly. The web is a graphical interface for information, great design is crucial.

The OP made the point about a team...my point is that this has to a be a balance of skills, each member understanding their value and importance to the project, and understanding and valuing the importance of their colleagues. Teams made up of entirely one skill set will never be as productive as one with a wide range of skills.

http://dptv.co.uk/weasleboy-tearmeup.mp3

Old school tape recorder

Really well designed app, nice brand identity, lots of useful functionality. All looking good.

Then I played the demo video - @OwlHuntr...I didn't last more than 12 seconds before I died of boredom. If I need a video lecture, you have to make it something I want to watch, and it shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to give me the info I need.

Mercedes can convince me to buy a car with a 30 second TV ad, (not literally, but you get the idea). My time is too valuable to watch the long-form directors cut of your promo.

46,463,575 registered users. Two things immediately come to mind here.

1. how many of these huge social networking sites are there out there, and how many of them (like this one) have I never heard of?

2. yet again it's free, so what's their revenue model.

If this posting was just spam to HN, or put here to generate discussion, I just can't tell.

"If for some reason I can't be on the trail I'll hole up indoors next to my air filter."

I appreciate his concerns for the environment, but isn't this taking things a little too extremely? Judging by the comment he makes about the pollution of his urban area by fireworks, I'm assuming that he has to drive to the trail... presumably past houses where people are sitting next to their domestic air filtration systems, in the hope that they can breath air with all the motor vehicle toxins removed.

We should all be concerned about protecting the environment, but maybe a campaign against the pollution caused by international freight shipping may be a better point to start than with fireworks.

FYI ships at sea create more greenhouse gas emissions than the whole CO2 output of the UK, yet there is no fuel duty on the fuels used in these vessels.

The point I was making was about beauty of design, not on the technology, which is where I think the Beetle/jet combo fails, and the handmade, beautifully crafted bicycle/pulse jet excels.

Although you could propose that the Beetle follows the Corbusian 'form follows function' ethos, the end result taking it's shape from it's purpose so elegantly illustrated by the original Beetle itself, strapping a whopping great jet to it does not.

The bicycle on the other hand, has obviously been lovingly crafted to be an aesthetic whole, even though two disparate technologies have been employed - therefore = win.

You could of course argue that Corbusier didn't follow his own ethos and 'fie rules' either though.

I actually think that the Beetle/jet combination is a very appropriate metaphor for many types of technology we use.

"Here's thing A, which only does X, if we add thing B to it, it now does XYZ, just not very efficiently, and it looks awful"

I'm thinking interesting project, but beauty of design points = fail.

For the ultimate in elegant, jet powered simplicity, I think Mr. Maddox and his pulse jet bicycle is leagues ahead:

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2009/06/02/pulsejet-bicycl...