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I like this a lot, especially the artwork/design. Can I make two suggestions? 1. Consider shortening the name, this is really just a subjective thing but a sho
by warent 9y ago
I like this a lot, especially the artwork/design. Can I make two suggestions?
1. Consider shortening the name, this is really just a subjective thing but a shorter name is easier to remember/type. Maybe just "Alpaca"
2. Load time is really slow after clicking "Find a getaway", the loading screen sat there for a while. Consider showing only first few results and dynamically loading the rest
Nice work!
- mstade 9y agoBut.. Alpaca My Bags is such a lovely pun!
- ezekg 9y agoThanks for the feedback. We, and other people too, usually refer to it as "Alpaca", so we'll see where that goes. For now, I think the name is punny, but will keep that in mind for the future. As far as load times--I'm definitely working on that; sometimes it even times out and shows a Heroku error page, which is no good at all (Heroku has a hard 30s timeout). Hopefully that will be resolved within the coming weeks, and like you said, looking at showing results as they come in via websockets instead of waiting for all searches to complete.
- cal5k 9y agoYou may just need to upgrade your dyno? Definitely shorten the URL. But I second the other comments - really nice UI, looks great!
- ezekg 9y agoIt doesn't look like a memory issue--more of a latency issue with third-party APIs (some of them can take quite awhile to send back a response). But either way, I will look into upgrading the dyno and/or database to see if that helps. I think implementing websockets and rendering results as they come in would be my best bet, but it would add additional complexity, and I'm not a big fan of that at this stage.