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Poyozo - Make Life Make Sense

21 points by seancron 16y ago

weego 16y ago
I find it endlessly frustrating that people's best plan for making my life easier is to add more software and more things for me to look at every day.
chaostheory 16y ago
As much as I like the idea of centralizing all of that, unless it's on my own machine; I don't like the idea of making Big Bro's work any easier.
- mortenjorck 16y ago
  From the "Paint your data" section: And it's all hosted on YOUR computer, so there's no chance we can use it for evil or marketing!
drewcrawford 16y ago
Your audio on that video sucks. Seriously. I almost gave up on your pitch. Also, rethink the text superimposed on the whiteboard--I didn't see it until after it was gone. It took me well into the video to figure out what the project actually was. Being on HN, my context was immediately "this is a startup". When I saw the donate button, my first reaction was "Why should I donate to a startup?" It took me a long time to figure out that you were actually a non-commercial OSS project. I know you probably put a lot of thought into your huge tagline (which is great!) but consider adding the words "open-source" in there to maybe kick me out of startup mode.
- WalterGR 16y ago
  Also, the project seems to be affiliated with CSAIL. Your everyday user has no idea who CSAIL is, but I think it's got some huge geek credibility. I wouldn't "hide" the affiliation behind the link to David Karger at the bottom of the page.
- pinchyfingers 16y ago
  Yeah, I'm reading it and thinking, "Man, I really don't understand how Kickstarter works."
brfox 16y ago
I haven't tried it out yet but I really, really like the idea of saving all my online activities to my computer. I put a lot of effort and I actually spend time worrying about how to make sure these things will not get lost when these companies go out of business or decide to delete old entries, etc. So, I look forward to trying this out! And, I agree with another post here which says you need to emphasize that it is open source (and with local storage) vs. a startup which will fail/get purchased and then all my data is gone.
- brfox 16y ago
  I just tried it out and it is not what I hoped it would be. It only stores a little bit of gmail - subject plus a little text from the unread mails (maybe IMAP works better). It didn't seem to get any of my facebook posts... so I'm going to uninstall from Firefox. :(
Fedons 16y ago
This software tries to solve a real life problem, that I feel everyday more important to me. Their intuition is right: the problem can be (partially) solved with good presentation of data. But why using only Firefox as a platform? They almost had me, but I'm using Chrome and I really don't want to install another browser just to use as a platform for another software.
lukeqsee 16y ago
Nothing for Chrome? I seriously thought the web was past non-universal apps. I absolutely love the concept of it. I played with building something similar. But, I'm not going to stop using Chrome for my daily browsing. Oh well, maybe next time. Good luck with the Firefox people!

21 points by seancron 16y ago

weego 16y ago

I find it endlessly frustrating that people's best plan for making my life easier is to add more software and more things for me to look at every day.

chaostheory 16y ago

As much as I like the idea of centralizing all of that, unless it's on my own machine; I don't like the idea of making Big Bro's work any easier.

mortenjorck 16y ago
From the "Paint your data" section: And it's all hosted on YOUR computer, so there's no chance we can use it for evil or marketing!

drewcrawford 16y ago

Your audio on that video sucks. Seriously. I almost gave up on your pitch. Also, rethink the text superimposed on the whiteboard--I didn't see it until after it was gone. It took me well into the video to figure out what the project actually was. Being on HN, my context was immediately "this is a startup". When I saw the donate button, my first reaction was "Why should I donate to a startup?" It took me a long time to figure out that you were actually a non-commercial OSS project. I know you probably put a lot of thought into your huge tagline (which is great!) but consider adding the words "open-source" in there to maybe kick me out of startup mode.

WalterGR 16y ago
Also, the project seems to be affiliated with CSAIL. Your everyday user has no idea who CSAIL is, but I think it's got some huge geek credibility. I wouldn't "hide" the affiliation behind the link to David Karger at the bottom of the page.
pinchyfingers 16y ago
Yeah, I'm reading it and thinking, "Man, I really don't understand how Kickstarter works."

brfox 16y ago

I haven't tried it out yet but I really, really like the idea of saving all my online activities to my computer. I put a lot of effort and I actually spend time worrying about how to make sure these things will not get lost when these companies go out of business or decide to delete old entries, etc. So, I look forward to trying this out! And, I agree with another post here which says you need to emphasize that it is open source (and with local storage) vs. a startup which will fail/get purchased and then all my data is gone.

brfox 16y ago
I just tried it out and it is not what I hoped it would be. It only stores a little bit of gmail - subject plus a little text from the unread mails (maybe IMAP works better). It didn't seem to get any of my facebook posts... so I'm going to uninstall from Firefox. :(

Fedons 16y ago

This software tries to solve a real life problem, that I feel everyday more important to me. Their intuition is right: the problem can be (partially) solved with good presentation of data. But why using only Firefox as a platform? They almost had me, but I'm using Chrome and I really don't want to install another browser just to use as a platform for another software.

lukeqsee 16y ago

Nothing for Chrome? I seriously thought the web was past non-universal apps. I absolutely love the concept of it. I played with building something similar. But, I'm not going to stop using Chrome for my daily browsing. Oh well, maybe next time. Good luck with the Firefox people!