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Too Twitter-y. You need clever fresh terminology (i.e. not "Following") and a slightly different design. It looks good, but I get an "I've seen this before" fee

by maxwell 19y ago

Too Twitter-y. You need clever fresh terminology (i.e. not "Following") and a slightly different design. It looks good, but I get an "I've seen this before" feeling. If you're targeting English and Chinese speakers, it could be cool to incorporate that into the design, probably to the extent that non-Chinese speakers can safely parse the characters as "icons" though. You definitely need something that makes it standout. Why shouldn't I just write down my dreams or post them on my blog? I could see some cool text pattern recognition features encouraging me to post a dream; that is, who else had a dream like this last night/ever? You mention natural language processing, so perhaps you've already got something like that in mind... Being able to reply to individual dreams might be annoying, though maybe we could post "interpretations" (in the Freudian sense).

vlad 19y ago
Perfectly twittery. Excellent user design. I love it. All you need to do is 1) spread the word to non-developers and 2) solicit feedback from registered users (most important source) as well as those who aren't ready to register yet (a feedback box.) I wouldn't use it because I don't remember my dreams. But I would have a starry night background, with some purple in it, like the background of the Mac OS X Leopard desktop.
btw0 19y ago
>Too Twitter-y. I like the twitter design, can't design a better one. So I mimicked the interface, it's clean and straight. >Why shouldn't I just write down my dreams or post them on my blog? Had this question in my mind from the day 1. I am working on a dictionary like database, the only difference being the explanation would be interpretation. Then it should work like this, for every word when there is a match in the database, the word become a tag and the word/interpretation pair is displayed below the dream text. The only difficulty is building such a database. >Being able to reply to individual dreams might be annoying, though maybe we could post "interpretations" I agree, interpretations make more sense than comments here.
derefr 19y ago
Indeed, I was thinking almost the same thing--I'm reminded of [that music app I can't think of the name of at the moment] where you sort of explore a "web" of songs. This could be quite similar, but with a "cloud" of dreams (heh) with a sort of haunting, serene element, perhaps with vector animations of recurring nouns floating about in silhouette... for convenience and impact, it would ideally be a screensaver. At any point, you could hit a certain key (probably Enter or Space) and instead of dumping you back to the desktop, it would pop up a text editor for entering your new dream, which would then float away into the "cloud." I could even see adding a sort of MMO element where each person gets a little avatar that slowly explores the "dream world" for them, being moved to a new dream's location on the cloud whenever one is entered. The little avatars could bump into one another and tell you in the morning of who you "met" in your dreams.

by maxwell 19y ago

vlad 19y ago

Perfectly twittery. Excellent user design. I love it. All you need to do is 1) spread the word to non-developers and 2) solicit feedback from registered users (most important source) as well as those who aren't ready to register yet (a feedback box.) I wouldn't use it because I don't remember my dreams. But I would have a starry night background, with some purple in it, like the background of the Mac OS X Leopard desktop.

btw0 19y ago

>Too Twitter-y. I like the twitter design, can't design a better one. So I mimicked the interface, it's clean and straight. >Why shouldn't I just write down my dreams or post them on my blog? Had this question in my mind from the day 1. I am working on a dictionary like database, the only difference being the explanation would be interpretation. Then it should work like this, for every word when there is a match in the database, the word become a tag and the word/interpretation pair is displayed below the dream text. The only difficulty is building such a database. >Being able to reply to individual dreams might be annoying, though maybe we could post "interpretations" I agree, interpretations make more sense than comments here.

derefr 19y ago

Indeed, I was thinking almost the same thing--I'm reminded of [that music app I can't think of the name of at the moment] where you sort of explore a "web" of songs. This could be quite similar, but with a "cloud" of dreams (heh) with a sort of haunting, serene element, perhaps with vector animations of recurring nouns floating about in silhouette... for convenience and impact, it would ideally be a screensaver. At any point, you could hit a certain key (probably Enter or Space) and instead of dumping you back to the desktop, it would pop up a text editor for entering your new dream, which would then float away into the "cloud." I could even see adding a sort of MMO element where each person gets a little avatar that slowly explores the "dream world" for them, being moved to a new dream's location on the cloud whenever one is entered. The little avatars could bump into one another and tell you in the morning of who you "met" in your dreams.