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Hi all! I'm the person behind this site -- if any of you have any questions or withering critiques, send 'em here! I will be watching it all day.

patrickfl 11y ago
One of my favorite blogs without a doubt, been reading your onboards since the beginning.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Good lookin' out, homie!
ameyamk 11y ago
It would be nice to list tear downs in the order in which they were reviewed - so I can read new ones quickly when I visit. Looks like current list is alphabetically sorted.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Ah, good call! I will def add that to the list.
tomlongson 11y ago
Some kind of datatable showing key observable metrics would be great.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Hmm, any suggestions on what those metrics would be?
  - baronseng 11y ago
    most viewed, most likes and newly added will be awesome.
    - samuelhulick 11y ago
      Copy that. Thanks for the feedback!
mikerg87 11y ago
I would love to know if and how any of the sites reviewed reacted? None of these sites are in a vacuum. Would love to see a few of them get reviewed again in the future to see if they got better or worse. Slack, Basecamp, Gmail as examples of example of small, medium and large sites.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Very, very few of the product teams have reached out, interestingly enough. The ones that have have usually been along the lines of "yeah... we're working on that..." As for re-reviewing them, thats definitely something I'd like to get to at some point. For now, though, I'm just a single person and can only review so many as it is!
thedevil 11y ago
I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things (sometimes zooms, sometimes scrolls, sometimes just jumps around, not sure why). I end up zooming in to touch a button, then when I tap it, it moves so the image takes up the screen and I can't scroll away from it to see the whole image or press the next button. It's sad because the best times for me to look at it is on my phone and it's incredibly good content. It still seems okay on larger screens. Please understand, I'm not dissing your site. I only give (hopefully useful) feedback because it's awesome.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  I totally hear you, and a fix will be in soon! Thank you very much for the respectful help.
delinka 11y ago
Fabulous work! Love your attention to detail. Kudos for not polluting my history with each slide. Here: have an Internet!
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Thank you for the internet!
wingerlang 11y ago
I think this http://i.imgur.com/bgAJfwI.png http://i.imgur.com/bgAJfwI.png is not something us iOS developers have any control over. It is a message that automatically will pop up upon starting the app, as opposed to the location message when we are asking for the location. (This one is saying the app might use it in the background).
- notatoad 11y ago
  I think the best practice there is to "prime" the user before they see the iOS permission prompts. Something like "your phone will now ask for permission to access your location. We need this to do x,y,z.."
  - wingerlang 11y ago
    Sure, but my point is that for this very specific one (app may use location in the background) we are unable to do the priming as this one will be displayed by the app automatically (as opposed to most/all other such popups).
    - notatoad 11y ago
      Right, that makes sense. Wasn't thinking about the consequences of it being the background location prompt specifically
  - bpicolo 11y ago
    That's just an extra step sadly. But yeah
- MaxGabriel 11y ago
  I don't think this is the case. On iOS 8.0+ there's a method on `CLLocationManager` called `requestAlwaysPermission` that causes this popup to appear. I'm not positive about older iOS versions, but I thought they asked for permission when you started using `CLLocationManager`. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLocation/Reference/CLLocationManager_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/CLLocationManager/requestAlwaysAuthorization https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...
bpicolo 11y ago
This was/is very cool! I'm going to keep coming back :)
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Great! Please do!
viraptor 11y ago
Going through top 4-5 pages, I noticed that slides after 80 randomly stop working (just blue background). Click next a few more times and 9X works again... (evernote did it for example)
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be. Could you tell me which browser you're using?
  - m_eiman 11y ago
    Same for me on Firefox/OSX.
  - viraptor 11y ago
    FF42/Windows
yeukhon 11y ago
Great stuff. Had fun reading a few of them. This is a fun project. The scarams is strong, pretty much align with me signing up with a few of these services at the beginning "wtf" moment. One quick note: I noticed you are blurring sensitive info (for example in Hulu's case) and I recommend you don't do that. Just capture the screenshot before you enter the info. There are techniques to recover blurred text and your blurred text are not fully covered up so you may end up leaking the info.
- samuelhulick 11y ago
  Thanks for the tip, and I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the teardowns!

patrickfl 11y ago

One of my favorite blogs without a doubt, been reading your onboards since the beginning.

samuelhulick 11y ago
Good lookin' out, homie!

ameyamk 11y ago

It would be nice to list tear downs in the order in which they were reviewed - so I can read new ones quickly when I visit. Looks like current list is alphabetically sorted.

samuelhulick 11y ago
Ah, good call! I will def add that to the list.

tomlongson 11y ago

Some kind of datatable showing key observable metrics would be great.

samuelhulick 11y ago
Hmm, any suggestions on what those metrics would be?
- baronseng 11y ago
  most viewed, most likes and newly added will be awesome.
  - samuelhulick 11y ago
    Copy that. Thanks for the feedback!

mikerg87 11y ago

I would love to know if and how any of the sites reviewed reacted? None of these sites are in a vacuum. Would love to see a few of them get reviewed again in the future to see if they got better or worse. Slack, Basecamp, Gmail as examples of example of small, medium and large sites.

samuelhulick 11y ago
Very, very few of the product teams have reached out, interestingly enough. The ones that have have usually been along the lines of "yeah... we're working on that..." As for re-reviewing them, thats definitely something I'd like to get to at some point. For now, though, I'm just a single person and can only review so many as it is!

thedevil 11y ago

I love the site, but fyi the teardowns are hard to work with on mobile (android chrome nexus5). It jumps around when I hit next, the icons are very small and require a zoom each time, touch gestures on the images do seemingly random things (sometimes zooms, sometimes scrolls, sometimes just jumps around, not sure why). I end up zooming in to touch a button, then when I tap it, it moves so the image takes up the screen and I can't scroll away from it to see the whole image or press the next button. It's sad because the best times for me to look at it is on my phone and it's incredibly good content. It still seems okay on larger screens. Please understand, I'm not dissing your site. I only give (hopefully useful) feedback because it's awesome.

samuelhulick 11y ago
I totally hear you, and a fix will be in soon! Thank you very much for the respectful help.

delinka 11y ago

Fabulous work! Love your attention to detail. Kudos for not polluting my history with each slide. Here: have an Internet!

samuelhulick 11y ago
Thank you for the internet!

wingerlang 11y ago

I think this http://i.imgur.com/bgAJfwI.png http://i.imgur.com/bgAJfwI.png is not something us iOS developers have any control over. It is a message that automatically will pop up upon starting the app, as opposed to the location message when we are asking for the location. (This one is saying the app might use it in the background).

notatoad 11y ago
I think the best practice there is to "prime" the user before they see the iOS permission prompts. Something like "your phone will now ask for permission to access your location. We need this to do x,y,z.."
- wingerlang 11y ago
  Sure, but my point is that for this very specific one (app may use location in the background) we are unable to do the priming as this one will be displayed by the app automatically (as opposed to most/all other such popups).
  - notatoad 11y ago
    Right, that makes sense. Wasn't thinking about the consequences of it being the background location prompt specifically
- bpicolo 11y ago
  That's just an extra step sadly. But yeah
MaxGabriel 11y ago
I don't think this is the case. On iOS 8.0+ there's a method on `CLLocationManager` called `requestAlwaysPermission` that causes this popup to appear. I'm not positive about older iOS versions, but I thought they asked for permission when you started using `CLLocationManager`. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLocation/Reference/CLLocationManager_Class/#//apple_ref/occ/instm/CLLocationManager/requestAlwaysAuthorization https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...

bpicolo 11y ago

This was/is very cool! I'm going to keep coming back :)

samuelhulick 11y ago
Great! Please do!

viraptor 11y ago

Going through top 4-5 pages, I noticed that slides after 80 randomly stop working (just blue background). Click next a few more times and 9X works again... (evernote did it for example)

samuelhulick 11y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be. Could you tell me which browser you're using?
- m_eiman 11y ago
  Same for me on Firefox/OSX.
- viraptor 11y ago
  FF42/Windows

yeukhon 11y ago

Great stuff. Had fun reading a few of them. This is a fun project. The scarams is strong, pretty much align with me signing up with a few of these services at the beginning "wtf" moment. One quick note: I noticed you are blurring sensitive info (for example in Hulu's case) and I recommend you don't do that. Just capture the screenshot before you enter the info. There are techniques to recover blurred text and your blurred text are not fully covered up so you may end up leaking the info.

samuelhulick 11y ago
Thanks for the tip, and I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the teardowns!