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Productivity
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SHOW HN2011
20points
23comments
#492of 1,097 in 2011
Top 45%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea for tracking personal productivity.
From 2 comments
Cool! I've just started doing something like this, but just for myself. It's based on lionhearted's time tracking efforts... so it's interesting to see others building things…
steveklabnik on HNI've been looking for something like this!
sz on HN
Objections
Sign-up wall hides what the product does.
From 3 comments
> I wouldn't say the signup is prohibitive in any way I would. I didn't sign up. The concept looked interesting, but there was no real information on this side of the sign-up…
kurin on HNLooks interesting. Few initial thoughts; - I'd really like to see a demo or something before signing up (classic "Show HN" feedback) - Even signing up wont show me how this will…
ZeroMinx on HNi second the first bit of feedback. the visualization of 'getting things done' is really important-it's a deal maker/breaker to me. and i don't want to sign up unless i know what…
anonymouse1234 on HN
Calendar is public by default.
From 2 comments
Looks interesting. Few initial thoughts; - I'd really like to see a demo or something before signing up (classic "Show HN" feedback) - Even signing up wont show me how this will…
ZeroMinx on HNSecond the bit about private calendars. To me this is about tracking my own productivity across all kinds of contexts (work, play, gym, diet); I can't even fathom a reason why…
kareemm on HN
Emails sent at fixed time without timezone support.
From 1 comment
Hi, you should add email sending time to chose. Because I'm in Europe and now in the morning (6am) I've got mail saying "What'd you get done today?". I'v just barely woke up ;)
lfx on HN
Registration and Cyrillic text bugs.
From 3 comments
Getting an error after registration: NoReverseMatch at / Reverse for 'dailydone_calendar' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{'username': u'.....'}' not found. edit: my…
lost-theory on HNTried to do registration but got an Internal Server Error. Not sure if my registration went through or not. (My e-mail is in my profile).
jtchang on HNUnfortunately doesn't work with Cyrillic characters. I got this in the calendar "=C7=E0=EF=EE=F7=ED=E0=F5"
aquilax on HN
Requests
Show a demo or calendar preview before signup.
From 3 comments
Looks interesting. Few initial thoughts; - I'd really like to see a demo or something before signing up (classic "Show HN" feedback) - Even signing up wont show me how this will…
ZeroMinx on HNhow about sticking an image of what the calendar will look like on the main page? there is really all that much to explain about the site otherwise -- it's simple. (the mental…
smalter on HNi second the first bit of feedback. the visualization of 'getting things done' is really important-it's a deal maker/breaker to me. and i don't want to sign up unless i know what…
anonymouse1234 on HN
Make calendar private or let users choose.
From 2 comments
Looks interesting. Few initial thoughts; - I'd really like to see a demo or something before signing up (classic "Show HN" feedback) - Even signing up wont show me how this will…
ZeroMinx on HNSecond the bit about private calendars. To me this is about tracking my own productivity across all kinds of contexts (work, play, gym, diet); I can't even fathom a reason why…
kareemm on HN
Allow logging directly on the site or sooner than a day.
From 1 comment
Second the bit about private calendars. To me this is about tracking my own productivity across all kinds of contexts (work, play, gym, diet); I can't even fathom a reason why…
kareemm on HN
Export to Google Calendar.
From 1 comment
Looks interesting. Few initial thoughts; - I'd really like to see a demo or something before signing up (classic "Show HN" feedback) - Even signing up wont show me how this will…
ZeroMinx on HN
Skip signup and use email only.
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity, did you consider skipping the signup requirement/process? Instead, just having a user put in their e-mail address as the only step? Then it might work like…
jat850 on HN
Alternatives named
OhLife
From 1 comment
It's funny how similar in implementation this could be to OhLife, and yet how different a feeling it has. It is really interesting to take the exact same technology, put a…
magicseth on HN
Time tracking approach by lionhearted
From 1 comment
Cool! I've just started doing something like this, but just for myself. It's based on lionhearted's time tracking efforts... so it's interesting to see others building things…
steveklabnik on HN