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However, it difficult to read the PDF paper on small screen devices, such…",{"value":58,"source":52,"evidence":59},"Readers of scientific and technical papers on small screens",[60],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"value":62,"source":52,"evidence":63},"Scientific papers are delivered as PDFs that are hard to read on small devices",[64],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},[],"unknown","beta",{"praise":69,"objections":93,"requests":141,"questions":165,"alternatives":175},[70,86],{"value":71,"source":72,"evidence":73},"Useful idea addressing a real pain point","commenter",[74,78,82],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"13322159","eranation","Great idea and actual pain point. Showing a live or even a video demo will increase sign up significantly IMHO. Also the \"get started now\" should lead to the sign up page, not…",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"13332216","scivey7","This is something I haven't found an ideal solution for yet. There are existing iOS PDF readers with reflow, but each seems to have its own issues. To echo what others have said,…",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"13323691","MidoAssran","Cool concept. This should be built into all smartphones and tablets and automatically run when they open PDFs.",{"value":87,"source":72,"evidence":88},"Willing to pay if it works well",[89],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"13320027","nmca","Just want to comment that if this worked well I would pay for it. Probably up to ~5 or maybe even 10 dollars a month.",[94,113,128,134],{"value":95,"source":72,"evidence":96},"Requires account signup before trying it",[97,101,105,109],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"13318865","lmg643","why do we need to create an account to try it out?",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"13318956","towelrod","Interesting and I might have a use for this professionally. But there is no indication on the main page about how it works (web service? code library?). And it forced me to login…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"13321759","edgartaor","I thought I'd give it a try. But... Signup Queue? I had never seen anything like that. Signup Queue Hi, \u003Cmy_email> * You are on your way to PDFlower. * 269 people in front of…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"13322085","israrkhan","would be great, if you could provide a guest account to try it out. I closed the window as soon as I saw the signup form..",{"value":114,"source":72,"evidence":115},"Uploading documents to a web service is a privacy concern",[116,120,124],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"13318675","aw3c2","Does anyone know an open-source solution for this? What I read is no one's business and I would never used a web-hosted service for something like this.",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"13319026","a3n","Agreed. Nothing against the described service or its users, but personally when I'm searching for something like this, \"upload\" comes right before Ctrl-W for me.",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"13319829","franciscop","Exactly the same here. I won't go through the [maybe] lengthy process of creating a new account to get a paywall then. Same goes with the privacy policy, I don't want to use it…",{"value":129,"source":72,"evidence":130},"Unclear what the product is (app or service) and how it works",[131,132,133],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"value":135,"source":72,"evidence":136},"No pricing or privacy policy on the site",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"13319543","daphreak","I would like a \"pricing\" and a \"privacy policy\" link on the front page. Probably won't spend time trying it out due to the omission. 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