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Hey, I'm Kilian, the creator and solo developer of Polypane. Exciting to see this on the homepage again. Happy to answer any questions folks have!
by kilian 2y ago
Hey, I'm Kilian, the creator and solo developer of Polypane. Exciting to see this on the homepage again.
Happy to answer any questions folks have!
- ulrischa 2y agoI brought it to the hn frontpage again. Is this worth getting some free month? ;-)
- kilian 2y agoHaha, email me and we’ll see
- tdhz77 2y agoI like your pricing model.
- johnisgood 2y agoYou have to sign up, and then this welcomes me: The password has to have: - At least one lowercase letter - At least one number - At least one uppercase letter - At least 8 characters I do not like it when websites (or applications, w/e) do this. I am somewhat OK with "at least 8 characters long" and I even understand its significance (from a security perspective) but not the rest.
- dschiffner 2y agozero relevance to the pricing.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- amelius 2y agoJust use the browser's built in password suggestion.
- johnisgood 2y agoFor something not-so-serious I probably should, but my browser does not have one. :D
- dventimi 2y agoI don't. Nine dollars per month for an individual? No thanks. Charge what you like. It's your right to do that, but as a hobbyist there's no chance I'm buying.
- pietmichal 2y agoQuick feedback: The "Polypane Portal" page hangs after opening it in Chrome on M1 Pro Macbook.
- kilian 2y agoCan't seem to replicate that here (m4 macbook), but I'll keep it open for a bit and see what happens. Thanks for letting me know!
- katsura 2y agoM1 Pro here too, the page doesn't hang, but it's extremely slow to scroll on my end.
- alsetmusic 2y agoM1 Max MacBook Pro and no issues, fwiw. Just to help provide data.
- Xorakios 2y agoM1 Mac mini here and instant loading in Brave.
- joshstrange 2y agoScrolling is unusable on that page for me: Computer: Apple M3 Max macOS: 14.7.3 (23H417) Google Chrome 134.0.6998.118 I also tried in my "clean" chrome profile (to rule out extensions) and it's still got really bad scroll lag. This happens as soon as I open the page. Here is a video though I understand it's hard to convey since you can't see when/how much I'm scrolling. I can tell you I scrolled slowly down and back up consistently through this video. https://cs.joshstrange.com/m71YtZdk https://cs.joshstrange.com/m71YtZdk Even worse, I just found that having that tab open (and visible) makes Chrome (no other app) laggy everywhere. Something is definitely wrong with that page. Also that page was open in a different chrome profile and it still made my main chrome profile lag when just trying to click around the text area for this comment on HN. Edit: Some extra details for my setup, I have external monitors (4) and the Macbook Pro is closed in clamshell mode. Not sure why either of those things would matter but I figure both those cases are more common for people on HN (external monitors/closed laptop) than the general public so I wanted to mention it. Edit2: And here is a video of me doing the same scrolling on the homepage just to show the difference: https://cs.joshstrange.com/GWLr0Qwl https://cs.joshstrange.com/GWLr0Qwl
- parentheses 2y agoI recall using your product years ago and it was fantastic. It helped me work solo on a web app with ease. Not having CSS and JS skills like a lot of front end devs, it was nice knowing all viewports were handled.
- spicybright 2y agoI love the idea of the product, I could have definitely used it in the past. And I really love your responses to questions asked here. You're very honest and friendly. If I get into webdev again, I'll definitely give Polypane a shot!
- bsimpson 2y agoI built a prototype of something similar with iframes for a gig at eBay a decade ago. Ended up showing it off at the first React conf. Definitely useful to have as much immediate feedback as possible when you're developing. Glad to see a productized version! Most of my work these days is for internal tools with fixed browser expectations, otherwise I'd probably be downloading a trial right now. Congrats!
- mattlondon 2y agoYou have the Google logo on your landing page above the fold - what's the connection?
- bitpush 2y agoThat was the first thing I noticed as well. OP can you answer?
- kilian 2y agoThose are customers. Just like for example on netlify.com. I had a title stating that for the longest time, then I noticed nearly all other landing pages simply have it without title and just a clean list of logos, so I changed it to that as well.
- bitpush 2y agoHow and where is Google using Polypane?
- handfuloflight 2y agoGoogle has tens of thousands of engineers—one of them using Polypane at Google would be indicative of Polypane being used at Google.
- mattlondon 2y agoIf only a few engineers are using it out of their own volition that I don't think that justifies trying to imply that Google is a customer. Pretty misleading and underhanded I think.
- noone_youknow 2y agoI work at one of those companies (not google) and Polypane is actively banned as “not safe, shouldn’t be used at all”. Not to take away from the product, which does look cool, but the “customer list” is definitely sketchy.
- ashryan 2y agoCongrats Kilian! Polypane made a massive difference in getting our startup's website shipped a few months ago. I highly recommend it for entrepreneur-devs.
- megamorf 2y agoNever heard of the product and just had a look at the landing page. Immediately spotted a typo :D > On Mac, Window and Linux should be > On Mac, Windows and Linux
- arialdomartini 2y agoShouldn’t it be macOS?
- alsetmusic 2y agoApple would say that, but I think most Mac users would say Mac. I know I think so and I've been a lifelong user.
- kilian 2y agoWell that’s embarrassing, thats been there for literal years. At least the icons are right!
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