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Dude, if you are not willing to take advice, you will not progress. Your software is too complicated! You say it allows one take notes. Well, how in heavens nam

Dude, if you are not willing to take advice, you will not progress. Your software is too complicated! You say it allows one take notes. Well, how in heavens name does one do that? I do not see a button or link. This is why a lot of these ycomb reject startups are failing. Their software has obvious flaws and when it is pointed out, they do not work on fixing it. Your site is fatally flawed. If you wish, mail me at maximusklein at gmail dot com for further discussion. If you don't wish to, start fixing it by explaining to me (and hundreds of other dumbasses like me), what the hell a "resource" is.

amichail 19y ago
A "resource" is the artifact to which you would like to attach sticky notes. It may be a book, video, online document, etc. To add a note, you first need to add a resource. Then you can click "Add Sticky" under the resource to add a sticky for that resource.
- aston 19y ago
  To put it in a nicer way, what's a resource? People work better with analogy to something they already know. For example "stickies" conveys something that can be stuck onto something else. Maybe that something else is a "stickable"? Or you could drop the generic word, and just mention the specific things you can stick to, like images, webpages, and videos. In general, your site is daunting to a new user. Most of the things are not labeled in a way that a person unfamiliar with your terminology and layout conventions could jump right in and start using it. One thing to concentrate on is the names of actions. I see that I can import stickies, but I have no clue why I would want to. Where would they come from in the first place? A FAQ/Help page would help out some, but it's really confusing from the outset, moreso than it should be for what I think (?) is a relatively simply idea.
  - amichail 19y ago
    The import currently supports the XML format used by the export. This allows you to make backups using export and in case of data loss on the server import your stickies back in. It also allows you to write a utility to import stickies from some other format. In the future, I may provide a heuristic import that works with plain text.

amichail 19y ago

A "resource" is the artifact to which you would like to attach sticky notes. It may be a book, video, online document, etc. To add a note, you first need to add a resource. Then you can click "Add Sticky" under the resource to add a sticky for that resource.

aston 19y ago
To put it in a nicer way, what's a resource? People work better with analogy to something they already know. For example "stickies" conveys something that can be stuck onto something else. Maybe that something else is a "stickable"? Or you could drop the generic word, and just mention the specific things you can stick to, like images, webpages, and videos. In general, your site is daunting to a new user. Most of the things are not labeled in a way that a person unfamiliar with your terminology and layout conventions could jump right in and start using it. One thing to concentrate on is the names of actions. I see that I can import stickies, but I have no clue why I would want to. Where would they come from in the first place? A FAQ/Help page would help out some, but it's really confusing from the outset, moreso than it should be for what I think (?) is a relatively simply idea.
- amichail 19y ago
  The import currently supports the XML format used by the export. This allows you to make backups using export and in case of data loss on the server import your stickies back in. It also allows you to write a utility to import stickies from some other format. In the future, I may provide a heuristic import that works with plain text.