zarprey

I agree. Your app looks like a much better rss reader than the ones currently out there but if I can't sync it to google reader I won't use it.

From my experience free trumps paid unless the paid app is promoted by apple/lots of blogs. You may get more return users with a paid app (since they shelled out the cash they will probably want to get their money's worth) but if you're trying to build a user base and especially if your app relies on one, which yours seems to, free is the way to go.

You always have (at least) two options in life when it comes to hard experiences.

1) Allow yourself to wallow in your failure and keep yourself there by constantly focusing on the negatives of what happened.

2) Focus on the experience that you had. Think about what you learned, good and bad. And use that to help you form your path towards the future.

I know it sounds really cliche to say that "failing often" can lead to success, but I have known many people who have gotten laid off or failed miserably at something and instead of dwelling on the fact that they were a failure, they bounced up and took the lessons they learned to do something different or change directions in their life or career.

Personally, I've also had a few experiences with failure that devastated me at the time, but after a few days of mind numbing woe is me, I picked myself up and did something about it and I am much more successful now than I was back then because I reflected on what happened in those instances and it helped me redirect my efforts.

So cliche or not, your attitude matters and if you start focusing on what you've learned instead of what you've lost I'm sure you'll bounce back.

Yes, this is something we're still working on and hope to improve in subsequent versions. Most coloring book apps only allow you to fill or paint and if you are able to fill the number of areas is pretty low. We decided to go for doing everything and although it's working well (we think) we're continually seeking ways to improve the speed in that area.

Some good ideas here, thanks!

Thank you, we are definitely thinking about localizing.

That's actually something we've talked about but haven't worked out the logistics of yet. :)

Thanks for your thoughts. I'll definitely look into the slow loading of the site. We've been trying to get everything together so quickly we probably didn't optimize it as much as we could have. I'll go back through and try to fix that for sure.

Undo isn't in the app right now but it's on the list for a future update.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. We're really excited about this app and appreciate the help spreading it around as well as the feedback/suggestions.

thanks! really appreciate the help spreading it around.

Thanks. It's targeted for kids of all ages.

Sorry for the crashes - any chance you could let me know what device you are using it on?

Thank you and thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely look into that for the next update.

Thanks, really appreciate the help spreading the word.

Thanks! It's an iOS app written in Objective-C.

Whoops. Good point, when we swapped the site from the holding page to the launched state we forgot to add that back. I'll have to fix that.

I hadn't heard of Sinatra before. I'll check it out. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll check out the link. I know it will be hard but I'm excited to dig into something new.

Working for a company -> Working for myself

doing my own taxes -> tax lady

designer -> entrepreneur

saying yes to everything -> saying no

trying to do everything -> focus

What a great use of a neglected space. Really inspiring project. It'd be great to do a timelapse of people writing on the wall. The variety of people would be interesting to see.

I'm working on an iphone/ipad app for kids. It's a silly thing just a coloring book but we're trying to make it better than anything else out there interface-wise and we're experimenting with in-app purchases and a bunch of other ios features. It's my first app that i've worked on from concept to execution so its pretty exciting to me.