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I have another iminlikewithyou invite to reward good feedback, or you can just do it for karma. Please go through the demo and see if it's easier now than last

by brlewis 20y ago

I have another iminlikewithyou invite to reward good feedback, or you can just do it for karma. Please go through the demo and see if it's easier now than last time I asked for feedback. I've also added an ad-supported option. There may be kinks. Please try it. This site is implemented with Scheme as the language and Java as the platform. I use PostgreSQL 8.1. I'm curious as to who else has any of these elements in common. With Paul Buchheit inquiring about how to simplify upload of image files, I'm concerned that some tough competition in the "amazingly simple photo sharing" space may be on the horizon. Any feedback would be super helpful. http://ourdoings.com/ http://ourdoings.com/

willarson 20y ago
Just a quick list of impressions on seeing the site, don't want to sound really negative, just trying to convey my thoughts quickly. No direct login on front page. Front page is very busy. I would put the "ourdoings" image at the top, and drop the "ourdoings.com" title. Its just a lot of raw data. Don't really care for the use of hyperlinks on the frontpage. Seems like it is pushing pricing a bit too early, I don't know anything about your product, and you are talking to me about money, I feel insecure ;) Need backwards links, for example on registration page I want to go to your front, but it has no link to do so. As noted above. Front page - Tutorial - Edit leads to a crash. I assume you are using SISC scheme on top of the JVM, which seems fairly reasonable, but I'd take a quick look at liftweb.net , which is a pretty pleasant scala web development environment (it isn't Lisp or Scheme, but I think Scala is pretty decent to look at (once you get over typing functions...), and being able to grab Java libraries is pretty handy, although SISC is giving you that too, the Scala syntax for doing it is dead simple).
- brlewis 20y ago
  Quick impressions is what I'm after. Don't worry about sounding negative. Your feedback on the front page is definitely useful. The only part of your feedback I'd push back on is taking pricing off. Everybody was asking me how much it cost before I put that there. I'm using the Kawa Scheme compiler, which on some benchmarks was 200-300x faster than SISC, the fastest interpreter. I don't need to bring in Java libraries all that often, and Kawa's FFI syntax is plenty good enough for me to quickly write a Scheme API, as I'm sure I'll do with s3. Basically all I'm doing is translating form inputs to data, and data to HTML, with escaping where appropriate and lots of conditionals. I've already got the perfect language for that. I fixed the demo early this morning. Please have another look.

by brlewis 20y ago

willarson 20y ago

Just a quick list of impressions on seeing the site, don't want to sound really negative, just trying to convey my thoughts quickly. No direct login on front page. Front page is very busy. I would put the "ourdoings" image at the top, and drop the "ourdoings.com" title. Its just a lot of raw data. Don't really care for the use of hyperlinks on the frontpage. Seems like it is pushing pricing a bit too early, I don't know anything about your product, and you are talking to me about money, I feel insecure ;) Need backwards links, for example on registration page I want to go to your front, but it has no link to do so. As noted above. Front page - Tutorial - Edit leads to a crash. I assume you are using SISC scheme on top of the JVM, which seems fairly reasonable, but I'd take a quick look at liftweb.net , which is a pretty pleasant scala web development environment (it isn't Lisp or Scheme, but I think Scala is pretty decent to look at (once you get over typing functions...), and being able to grab Java libraries is pretty handy, although SISC is giving you that too, the Scala syntax for doing it is dead simple).

brlewis 20y ago
Quick impressions is what I'm after. Don't worry about sounding negative. Your feedback on the front page is definitely useful. The only part of your feedback I'd push back on is taking pricing off. Everybody was asking me how much it cost before I put that there. I'm using the Kawa Scheme compiler, which on some benchmarks was 200-300x faster than SISC, the fastest interpreter. I don't need to bring in Java libraries all that often, and Kawa's FFI syntax is plenty good enough for me to quickly write a Scheme API, as I'm sure I'll do with s3. Basically all I'm doing is translating form inputs to data, and data to HTML, with escaping where appropriate and lots of conditionals. I've already got the perfect language for that. I fixed the demo early this morning. Please have another look.