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Okay, let's summarize: There is a need, but this may not be its satisfaction. A pity that it made it to front page entry 1 already before really working on user

by erikb 10y ago

Okay, let's summarize: There is a need, but this may not be its satisfaction. A pity that it made it to front page entry 1 already before really working on user needs. E.g. if you make a video, don't make it 6 minutes long, don't use such kind of annoying background music, don't advertise that you can call someone. It's like advertising a computer by showing that it can connect with a USB mouse. Show us the dev environment for apps, and how far your API can look into the system. Show us the operating system and its features, e.g. by showing that someone manipulates the list of processes in screenlock widgets or something. Show us the people who do cool stuff with it that they couldn't do in a walled garden environment.

majewsky 10y ago
> A pity that it made it to front page entry 1 already before really working on user needs. The old free software dilemma: Do you wait until your product is polished, thus cutting yourself off all possible publicity? Or will you be vocal about your development efforts, and stand the complaints about rough edges, in order to attract helping hands?
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- erikb 10y ago
  This is not a question of an unfair world and you must decide either one of the choices you give. You can do both, if you can communicate well. Communication is a skill, like programming, that can be learned. And especially if you communicate with the masses it is less about understanding people and more about understanding patterns. Totally possible for developers to learn. E.g. both your messages target different people. Why inform users about your work in progress product instead of developers who may help you? And is this page really the best way to generate helping hands or is this more a user ad?