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Well, admittedly I made it partly for my own personal use and partly for fun. I just thought that most of the sites that did this weren't very well done, or did

by meese_ 17y ago

Well, admittedly I made it partly for my own personal use and partly for fun. I just thought that most of the sites that did this weren't very well done, or didn't achieve what I was looking for completely. It is a little discouraging to have your work dismissed in a couple sentences though. I put an awful lot of time into it.

idoh 17y ago
It's happened to me to. It's hard to go directly at competitors. Users will only switch if your thing is significantly better, by that I mean some multiple better. Anyway, it looks like you've got the skills to make something nice. Maybe you could try to push the space into some fresh direction that no one has done before, instead of doing an incremental improvement.
dannyr 17y ago
I don't think he's really dismissing your site. Positive and negative comments come with the territory once you launch/announce your site to the public.
javery 17y ago
Honestly when you get a couple sentences from someone that is good, the majority of users give you about 2-3 seconds to show them why they shouldn't just close the tab or move to another site.
parfe 17y ago
Looks pretty, I guess. But you still haven't said anything of substance here or on your site about why it is better. What is wrong with other sites? What does your site do better? I put about as much care into my comment as you put into selling your website.
prawn 17y ago
I'd get used to feeling discouraged because this is the reality of competition on the net. As someone's already noted, a couple of sentences is more than you'll get from most people who just look and then dismiss it. There's great feedback to take from the original comment even if it's short - if you have a point of difference, it's not obvious. FWIW, I also viewed it, thought 'what sets this apart from all the other alternatives?' and then left. I think your design is really loose. Other than that, I use a snippets function in my text editor and the things that doesn't cover aren't enough to warrant using a site like yours. There might be some advantage I'm missing though?
- meese_ 17y ago
  No, you're right, it was a totally valid criticism. Sorry, I just haven't been having a very good week :)

by meese_ 17y ago

idoh 17y ago

It's happened to me to. It's hard to go directly at competitors. Users will only switch if your thing is significantly better, by that I mean some multiple better. Anyway, it looks like you've got the skills to make something nice. Maybe you could try to push the space into some fresh direction that no one has done before, instead of doing an incremental improvement.

dannyr 17y ago

I don't think he's really dismissing your site. Positive and negative comments come with the territory once you launch/announce your site to the public.

javery 17y ago

Honestly when you get a couple sentences from someone that is good, the majority of users give you about 2-3 seconds to show them why they shouldn't just close the tab or move to another site.

parfe 17y ago

Looks pretty, I guess. But you still haven't said anything of substance here or on your site about why it is better. What is wrong with other sites? What does your site do better? I put about as much care into my comment as you put into selling your website.

prawn 17y ago

I'd get used to feeling discouraged because this is the reality of competition on the net. As someone's already noted, a couple of sentences is more than you'll get from most people who just look and then dismiss it. There's great feedback to take from the original comment even if it's short - if you have a point of difference, it's not obvious. FWIW, I also viewed it, thought 'what sets this apart from all the other alternatives?' and then left. I think your design is really loose. Other than that, I use a snippets function in my text editor and the things that doesn't cover aren't enough to warrant using a site like yours. There might be some advantage I'm missing though?

meese_ 17y ago
No, you're right, it was a totally valid criticism. Sorry, I just haven't been having a very good week :)