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https://muzzleapp.com/ https://muzzleapp.com/ Does a great job of demonstrating the value of the product.

by johnymontana 9y ago

andkon 9y ago
I just fully belly laughed my way through that. So good
djflutt3rshy 9y ago
Funny release notes too.
- roselan 9y ago
  CodeKit reviews stand their ground too.
benetzz 9y ago
ahaha, nice one!
eljimmy 9y ago
That truly is a great landing page. The fake notifications were so entertaining I shared it with some friends.
ricardobeat 9y ago
Note they are using real people's faces without permission (through randomuser.me / uifaces.com) for the avatars in those 'funny' sample notifications. https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/970753038406373377 https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/970753038406373377
- aaronbasssett 9y ago
  They do have permission though. The people used granted permission when they submitted their face to uifaces.com, in fact they even went so far as to submit their faces to the "authorised" section on uifaces > those awesome folks allow their faces to be used on live products They might not have ever imagined that their faces would be used in this manner, but they did give their permission.
  - Silhouette 9y ago
    If you read further down the Twitter feed, it's clear that this particular person didn't think she'd granted such permission, and the whole setup looks questionable on other grounds as well. Putting someone's face next to suggestions of serious problems like drug abuse or STIs on a public site without their knowledge or explicit consent at least raises ethical questions, and then trying to argue that it's obviously a joke when apparently the person in question has been receiving concerned mail from friends who didn't know that makes it pretty clear that any joke has gone too far. The dismissive attitude of the site developer just makes it worse.
    - aaronbasssett 9y ago
      I did read the entire thread, the site developer offered two different solutions. But the other commenters seemed to dismiss both suggestions, preferring to fetch their pitchforks instead.
      - ricardobeat 9y ago
        His “solution” would be to hack it to avoid that specific person's image, which is not really solving anything, other than the site author’s own problem. The footer of uifaces still says _mockups_ and the FAQ/TOS haven’t been available for a while. This is clearly playing legal sword fighting and unethical.
      - Silhouette 9y ago
        I'm not sure I'd consider anything he suggested a good solution, though. What he's done, and the aggressive/dismissive way he's handled a perfectly reasonable request afterwards, are what very expensive defamation lawsuits are made of. That is as it should be, IMHO, given that notwithstanding the developer's personal opinions about visitors understanding, the consequences of his actions demonstrably did reach someone close to the person whose photo was used and cause real distress and concern.
    - paulcole 9y ago
      > Putting someone's face next to suggestions of serious problems like drug abuse or STIs on a public site without their knowledge or explicit consent at least raises ethical questions This was the plot of a Friends episode like 20 years ago. Joey's face is used in a herpes ad in the subway. I think he got paid but the issue is the same. Give someone carte blanche to use your likeness and there might be some negative consequences.
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avip 9y ago
"YouPorn: Billing issues" Whoever did the writeup for that one - you have all my respect.
- piqalq 9y ago
  Not as good as - “StackOverflow: How to add numbers”
  - reificator 9y ago
    For anyone who hasn't seen it yet: http://i.imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif http://i.imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif
    - chasedehan 9y ago
      I hadn't seen that before - I really need to brush up on my jQuery!
    - neil1023 9y ago
      This is great. Nowadays, we would replace "there's a jQuery plugin for that" with "there's an NPM module for that".
    - tudorconstantin 9y ago
      Try and add 2 ethereum amounts correctly without using a library. They have 18 decimal places.
      - reificator 9y ago
        DECIMAL(38, 18) in SQL should do nicely for that.
      - doingmyting 9y ago
        Just carry the one a few times. You'll be fine
    - z3t4 9y ago
nkkollaw 9y ago
Best I've seen I think ever.
fnord123 9y ago
Cute app but I have to share something I learned a week or so ago: you can silence all notifications if you click the Notification icon in the top right corner. Then scroll UP and turn on Do Not Disturb.
- amorphid 9y ago
  Good tip, thanks. The only reason I might like muzzle a bit more is that you don't have to remember to turn it on & off (according to the landing page, I have not yet tried it).
- mojomark 9y ago
  "...a week or so ago..." That's awesome. Seriously though. For those of us who need our chat on despite the frequent unpopular rants of our sister/brethren, I welcome this attempt to filter. Btw - excelent landing page!
- M4v3R 9y ago
  Actually you can Alt (Option) click that icon to enable Do Not Disturb without actually opening the notifications center :).
  - spiralganglion 9y ago
    Mac pro tip: Option-click everything. It's remarkable how many secrets are lurking behind near every UI element. And once you've option-clicked, also option-shift-click, command-click, control-click, etc. An easy favourite is the Wifi menu bar item. Option-click to see all sorts of useful info about your current connection, including IP address, MAC address, connection speed (Tx Rate), the amount of noise, etc. And when you've option-clicked the menu, hovering over network names shows you the key info about that network.
    - M4v3R 9y ago
      Yeah, pretty much every icon in the menu bar has an Option-click alternative. I very often Option-click the volume button, which lets you select input and output devices without opening the sound preferences pane.
protomyth 9y ago
Funny, but skip politics in your demonstrations, no need to limit your audience.
andrei_says_ 9y ago
IMO the examples are ridiculously unlikely. I’d very much focus on something more business-oriented and believable, like a question about a report and in an extreme case, possibly speaking about a client in a less than professional tone. “meet me in the bathroom” is not within the realm of feasibility for anyone I know.
- inostia 9y ago
  Yeah, but then it wouldn't be funny.
- gtm1260 9y ago
  I don't think that's the point. Many of us have ourselves or seen someone we know go up to present and have private notifications be displayed as they hustle to turn on Do not Disturb. While they aren't as extreme as this, these are funny and make the viewer recall a time when they were in this situation, and perhaps see how much better they'd be if the downloaded the app.
doubleocherry 9y ago
Did not realize this was a problem :-)
wyclif 9y ago
It's also one of the most entertaining landing pages ever.
NightlyDev 9y ago
That page was actually shit. The font is really small and the text to background contrast is really bad on mobile.
alpb 9y ago
Actually it isn't. It does not talk about a lot of important details/questions one might wonder before downloading the app, like: - "how does this app do it" - "how is this app any different than macOS's Do Not Disturb feature" - "where's the source code for this app, why would I trust this software with full access to my compute (it requires that)"
- exotree 9y ago
  A lot of folks who may download this app are unlikely to care about any of those questions. They only care that their problem is solved. If they landed on this website during their searches for an app to snooze notifications, the above the fold first paragraph answers that succinctly, promptly followed by a download button.
- azeirah 9y ago
  If there's one thing I realized as a technical person/programmer: it's that other people do not think like this at all. Barely anyone give a crap about source-code, it could be written in an amalgamation of COBOL, ActionScript, windows .bat files and C#/.NET to glue everything together. As long as it does what it does without causing major trouble, it's fine for them. I guess you could add a link to a FAQ with answers to questions you might be interested in for those who do care.. and they do have that, so it's no problem whatsoever.
fouc 9y ago
I almost want the reverse of this - fake hilariously embarrassing notifications.
- pc86 9y ago
  That you can somehow trigger on someone else's machine while they're screen sharing!
- citruscomputing 9y ago
  Here you go I made it: https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications
dbg31415 9y ago
So I get that you can Option + Click on the Notifications icon in the upper right to turn on Do Not Disturb... but I love that this does it automatically for you. And it's free. No brainer. Yes, this app is great.
therealmarv 9y ago
alt + click on notification bar on top right (which looks like some notes, kinda the burger menu) gets it also done (for free). Nice page though.
mosselman 9y ago
Very nice landing page. The funny notifications made me download it.

https://muzzleapp.com/ https://muzzleapp.com/ Does a great job of demonstrating the value of the product.

andkon 9y ago

I just fully belly laughed my way through that. So good

djflutt3rshy 9y ago

Funny release notes too.

roselan 9y ago
CodeKit reviews stand their ground too.

benetzz 9y ago

ahaha, nice one!

eljimmy 9y ago

That truly is a great landing page. The fake notifications were so entertaining I shared it with some friends.

ricardobeat 9y ago

Note they are using real people's faces without permission (through randomuser.me / uifaces.com) for the avatars in those 'funny' sample notifications. https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/970753038406373377 https://twitter.com/ohhoe/status/970753038406373377

aaronbasssett 9y ago
They do have permission though. The people used granted permission when they submitted their face to uifaces.com, in fact they even went so far as to submit their faces to the "authorised" section on uifaces > those awesome folks allow their faces to be used on live products They might not have ever imagined that their faces would be used in this manner, but they did give their permission.
- Silhouette 9y ago
  If you read further down the Twitter feed, it's clear that this particular person didn't think she'd granted such permission, and the whole setup looks questionable on other grounds as well. Putting someone's face next to suggestions of serious problems like drug abuse or STIs on a public site without their knowledge or explicit consent at least raises ethical questions, and then trying to argue that it's obviously a joke when apparently the person in question has been receiving concerned mail from friends who didn't know that makes it pretty clear that any joke has gone too far. The dismissive attitude of the site developer just makes it worse.
  - aaronbasssett 9y ago
    I did read the entire thread, the site developer offered two different solutions. But the other commenters seemed to dismiss both suggestions, preferring to fetch their pitchforks instead.
    - ricardobeat 9y ago
      His “solution” would be to hack it to avoid that specific person's image, which is not really solving anything, other than the site author’s own problem. The footer of uifaces still says _mockups_ and the FAQ/TOS haven’t been available for a while. This is clearly playing legal sword fighting and unethical.
    - Silhouette 9y ago
      I'm not sure I'd consider anything he suggested a good solution, though. What he's done, and the aggressive/dismissive way he's handled a perfectly reasonable request afterwards, are what very expensive defamation lawsuits are made of. That is as it should be, IMHO, given that notwithstanding the developer's personal opinions about visitors understanding, the consequences of his actions demonstrably did reach someone close to the person whose photo was used and cause real distress and concern.
  - paulcole 9y ago
    > Putting someone's face next to suggestions of serious problems like drug abuse or STIs on a public site without their knowledge or explicit consent at least raises ethical questions This was the plot of a Friends episode like 20 years ago. Joey's face is used in a herpes ad in the subway. I think he got paid but the issue is the same. Give someone carte blanche to use your likeness and there might be some negative consequences.
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avip 9y ago

"YouPorn: Billing issues" Whoever did the writeup for that one - you have all my respect.

piqalq 9y ago
Not as good as - “StackOverflow: How to add numbers”
- reificator 9y ago
  For anyone who hasn't seen it yet: http://i.imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif http://i.imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif
  - chasedehan 9y ago
    I hadn't seen that before - I really need to brush up on my jQuery!
  - neil1023 9y ago
    This is great. Nowadays, we would replace "there's a jQuery plugin for that" with "there's an NPM module for that".
  - tudorconstantin 9y ago
    Try and add 2 ethereum amounts correctly without using a library. They have 18 decimal places.
    - reificator 9y ago
      DECIMAL(38, 18) in SQL should do nicely for that.
    - doingmyting 9y ago
      Just carry the one a few times. You'll be fine
  - z3t4 9y ago

nkkollaw 9y ago

Best I've seen I think ever.

fnord123 9y ago

Cute app but I have to share something I learned a week or so ago: you can silence all notifications if you click the Notification icon in the top right corner. Then scroll UP and turn on Do Not Disturb.

amorphid 9y ago
Good tip, thanks. The only reason I might like muzzle a bit more is that you don't have to remember to turn it on & off (according to the landing page, I have not yet tried it).
mojomark 9y ago
"...a week or so ago..." That's awesome. Seriously though. For those of us who need our chat on despite the frequent unpopular rants of our sister/brethren, I welcome this attempt to filter. Btw - excelent landing page!
M4v3R 9y ago
Actually you can Alt (Option) click that icon to enable Do Not Disturb without actually opening the notifications center :).
- spiralganglion 9y ago
  Mac pro tip: Option-click everything. It's remarkable how many secrets are lurking behind near every UI element. And once you've option-clicked, also option-shift-click, command-click, control-click, etc. An easy favourite is the Wifi menu bar item. Option-click to see all sorts of useful info about your current connection, including IP address, MAC address, connection speed (Tx Rate), the amount of noise, etc. And when you've option-clicked the menu, hovering over network names shows you the key info about that network.
  - M4v3R 9y ago
    Yeah, pretty much every icon in the menu bar has an Option-click alternative. I very often Option-click the volume button, which lets you select input and output devices without opening the sound preferences pane.

protomyth 9y ago

Funny, but skip politics in your demonstrations, no need to limit your audience.

andrei_says_ 9y ago

IMO the examples are ridiculously unlikely. I’d very much focus on something more business-oriented and believable, like a question about a report and in an extreme case, possibly speaking about a client in a less than professional tone. “meet me in the bathroom” is not within the realm of feasibility for anyone I know.

inostia 9y ago
Yeah, but then it wouldn't be funny.
gtm1260 9y ago
I don't think that's the point. Many of us have ourselves or seen someone we know go up to present and have private notifications be displayed as they hustle to turn on Do not Disturb. While they aren't as extreme as this, these are funny and make the viewer recall a time when they were in this situation, and perhaps see how much better they'd be if the downloaded the app.

doubleocherry 9y ago

Did not realize this was a problem :-)

wyclif 9y ago

It's also one of the most entertaining landing pages ever.

NightlyDev 9y ago

That page was actually shit. The font is really small and the text to background contrast is really bad on mobile.

alpb 9y ago

Actually it isn't. It does not talk about a lot of important details/questions one might wonder before downloading the app, like: - "how does this app do it" - "how is this app any different than macOS's Do Not Disturb feature" - "where's the source code for this app, why would I trust this software with full access to my compute (it requires that)"

exotree 9y ago
A lot of folks who may download this app are unlikely to care about any of those questions. They only care that their problem is solved. If they landed on this website during their searches for an app to snooze notifications, the above the fold first paragraph answers that succinctly, promptly followed by a download button.
azeirah 9y ago
If there's one thing I realized as a technical person/programmer: it's that other people do not think like this at all. Barely anyone give a crap about source-code, it could be written in an amalgamation of COBOL, ActionScript, windows .bat files and C#/.NET to glue everything together. As long as it does what it does without causing major trouble, it's fine for them. I guess you could add a link to a FAQ with answers to questions you might be interested in for those who do care.. and they do have that, so it's no problem whatsoever.

fouc 9y ago

I almost want the reverse of this - fake hilariously embarrassing notifications.

pc86 9y ago
That you can somehow trigger on someone else's machine while they're screen sharing!
citruscomputing 9y ago
Here you go I made it: https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications https://github.com/riley-martine/inappropriate-notifications

dbg31415 9y ago

So I get that you can Option + Click on the Notifications icon in the upper right to turn on Do Not Disturb... but I love that this does it automatically for you. And it's free. No brainer. Yes, this app is great.

therealmarv 9y ago

alt + click on notification bar on top right (which looks like some notes, kinda the burger menu) gets it also done (for free). Nice page though.

mosselman 9y ago

Very nice landing page. The funny notifications made me download it.