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Ask HN: Need Mobile Beta App Testers

2 points by mstefff 18y ago

Hey, I'm the owner of Streetread.com - you may remember reviewing the site on here about a month ago. If you don't, Streetread is an innovative, ajax-driven, news aggregator for Wall Street - collecting news from over 20 of the leading financial sites as well as all of the stocks you choose to follow. The interface and data available are very complex (jQuery - Drupal). In lieu of user-demand and general sense I've decided to roll out a mobilized version of the site - with surprisingly no loss in features or convenience. Even more surprisingly was that I was able to complete the mobile development and design in two days. Like the rest of the site, it's built completely on Drupal (first complex mobile drupal app?). I'm coming here for the great help and intelligence that defines this community. If anyone is interested in helping to test out this service - I would greatly appreciate it. It seems all of the coding is completely functional; my main concern is device compatibility. To participate simply visit streetread.com via a computer and register a free account (takes 15 seconds). Add a comment to this thread saying "username: <insert user name here>". I'll enable mobile access to the account and reply to the comment once completed. You can then visit streetread.com/m/login via a mobile phone to login and begin testing. Please provide as much feedback and information as possible. Thank you very much to anyone willing to help. Mike

zacharye 18y ago
username: zacharye I've enjoyed the site a lot, definitely willing to check out the mobile version.
- mstefff 18y ago
  sorry for the delay. enabled - navigate to streetread.com/m/login on your mobile device thanks!
  - zacharye 18y ago
    No worries. Looking really good so far on my Nokia E71. Loads very fast over 3G. I'll play with it plenty more over the coming days but my only suggestion so far would be an option to click on the charts to enlarge them a bit. They're way too tiny to be useful as-is.
    - mstefff 18y ago
      Thanks for the feedback. This was a concern of mine. I knew making it too large would be a problem on some devices - and theres no such thing as too small as long as the data is legible. I haven't been able to find any data regarding average mobile device screen resolution. I'll try making the images a bit larger and see if it works fine.
      - zacharye 18y ago
        In this day and age, I think using a width that will accomodate 240p-wide screens will likey be safe. Having the small pre-click size will take care of any old smaller displays.
        mstefff 18y ago
        meaning the browser will auto-shrink any images that are too wide?
        zacharye 18y ago
        Depending on the browser/OS, yes. Most popular phones these days have at least a QVGA display though (240x320 or 320x240) so if the enlarged size is < 240 wide it will likely fit on most screens.
zacharye 18y ago
One more suggestion as I continue to play. The service as-is is awesome for checking out 'your' stocks, but adding functionality to search for a company by name rather than only symbol would be great in the mobile app (and the standard website as well for that matter). If I hear about a company while on the go, it would be cool to have a one-stop shop where I don't have to hit Google or some other mobile site to identify the ticker symbol before I can do some reading on StreetRead.

2 points by mstefff 18y ago

zacharye 18y ago

username: zacharye I've enjoyed the site a lot, definitely willing to check out the mobile version.

mstefff 18y ago
sorry for the delay. enabled - navigate to streetread.com/m/login on your mobile device thanks!
- zacharye 18y ago
  No worries. Looking really good so far on my Nokia E71. Loads very fast over 3G. I'll play with it plenty more over the coming days but my only suggestion so far would be an option to click on the charts to enlarge them a bit. They're way too tiny to be useful as-is.
  - mstefff 18y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. This was a concern of mine. I knew making it too large would be a problem on some devices - and theres no such thing as too small as long as the data is legible. I haven't been able to find any data regarding average mobile device screen resolution. I'll try making the images a bit larger and see if it works fine.
    - zacharye 18y ago
      In this day and age, I think using a width that will accomodate 240p-wide screens will likey be safe. Having the small pre-click size will take care of any old smaller displays.
      - mstefff 18y ago
        meaning the browser will auto-shrink any images that are too wide?
        zacharye 18y ago
        Depending on the browser/OS, yes. Most popular phones these days have at least a QVGA display though (240x320 or 320x240) so if the enlarged size is < 240 wide it will likely fit on most screens.

zacharye 18y ago

One more suggestion as I continue to play. The service as-is is awesome for checking out 'your' stocks, but adding functionality to search for a company by name rather than only symbol would be great in the mobile app (and the standard website as well for that matter). If I hear about a company while on the go, it would be cool to have a one-stop shop where I don't have to hit Google or some other mobile site to identify the ticker symbol before I can do some reading on StreetRead.