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Feedback: 1. The inability to protect a note or do anything beyond create a note may fit the "simple" mantra it does not create good usability. There are so ma
by citricsquid 15y ago
Feedback:
1. The inability to protect a note or do anything beyond create a note may fit the "simple" mantra it does not create good usability. There are so many essential features (no matter how simple the site is) that are missing. What if someone guesses my URL? What if I don't want anyone else to see my note(s)? I tried signing up and got "Thank You for signing up. We will notify you when user-specific features become available."
2. The ability to edit other peoples notes can create value with collaboration but it needs to be real time. If I open a note in another tab, edit it then switch back to the first tab and edit it I've just overwritten everything that the other edits contained. This is a big problem.
3. (Personal opinion with no real justification beyond personal preference) why have you put adverts on this? For me if you're building something that is "simple" and then putting adverts on it seems a contradiction, now instead of a basic notepad I have a basic notepad with a flash advert distracting me from the actual purpose of the site: typing. Yes, if you had large costs to cover it would be understandable, but you don't.
This isn't a bad start, the design is nice but "simple" is not synonymous for "lack of features", it means something is easy to use but has enough depth to make it usable, this doesn't. A very basic revision history is necessary at the very least, although personally I'd use one of the already existing text tools (pastebin, pastie, hastebin) or for collaboration google docs.
Personally I think if you were to expand this into having real time collaboration, customisation of permissions (using the "account" system?) and revision history it would become something worth having bookmarked :)
Edit: seems this is just a resubmit from a couple of days ago, not sure why it seems to match the previous comments, have you made any changes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719057 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719057
- bobrenjc93 15y agoBased on what you described, I think http://sync.in/ http://sync.in/ is the service that may suit your needs.
- dybber 15y agoOr http://piratepad.net http://piratepad.net