[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":391},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-6134616":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":45,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":97,"maker_in_thread":213,"shape":225,"grid":229,"attempts":354,"same_week":355,"maker_shows":257,"maker_hidden":383,"reader_version":384,"card":385},"6134616","Skipper","For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app","title","Show HN: For the boaters among us, my small company made an iOS app","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.tryskipper.com\u002F","tryskipper.com","andrewljohnson",1375286037,2013,65,49,392,1739,23,"notable","productivity","marine navigation app","mobile_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"marine navigation","boating app","nautical charts","offline maps","noaa charts","mixed",0.098,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},7,10,2,5,24,{"execution":38,"docs":40,"performance":41,"pricing":43,"design":44},{"positive":39,"critical":34},0,{"positive":39,"critical":39},{"positive":39,"critical":42},1,{"positive":42,"critical":42},{"positive":39,"critical":42},[46,39,46,39,42,39,46,39,42,42,35,39,35,39,35,39,35,39,46,39,46,39,46,39,42,46,46,39,35,35,46,46,39,42,39,39,46,39,46,35],3,null,{"problem":47,"audience":49,"pricing":61,"motivation":71,"time_to_build":47,"stack":75,"openness":94,"stage":95,"team_size":96},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Boaters and sailors","inferred",[53,57],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},"6137492","keithwinstein","Looks interesting. It's great you have put a lot of effort into making the app easy to use, but here are some suggestions if you really want to be a nautical chart app \"done…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"6135049","mbesto","Novice skipper here! Looks cool. One suggestion - on your homepage - explain to me very clearly (in better imagery or a few sentences) why this trumps using my existing tools GPS…",{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"$0.99 download, $11.99\u002Fyear subscription for offline charts","maker",[65,68],{"id":66,"by":11,"text":67},"6135220","For .99, you can view all the charts, but you don't get a lot of the features. For 11.99\u002Fyear, you can cache whatever charts you want for offline use, and they all get…",{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"6134967","Couple of comments: 1) We started out long ago making a hiking website, which led to hiking iPhone apps, which led us to make all sorts of mapping apps, everything from Burning…",{"value":72,"source":63,"evidence":73},"Forerunner of the next Gaia GPS version 8 core code overhaul",[74],{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},[76,80,86,90],{"value":77,"source":51,"evidence":78},"iOS",[79],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":81,"source":63,"evidence":82},"Angular",[83],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"6135189","Shout out to our intern Anting from the University of Berkeley, who has totally become the dev lead on our cloud website. He learned our web stack like it was nothing - Angular,…",{"value":87,"source":63,"evidence":88},"Django",[89],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},{"value":91,"source":63,"evidence":92},"Python",[93],{"id":84,"by":11,"text":85},"paid","launched","company",{"praise":98,"objections":120,"requests":154,"questions":176,"alternatives":189},[99,108,116],{"value":100,"source":101,"evidence":102},"Good UI and easy to use","commenter",[103,104],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"6134871","monkey_slap","This looks really, really useful to boaters. I'm not a boater at all, but I am a hobbyist pilot that flies maybe once a month on small trips. I frequently use Foreflight…",{"value":109,"source":101,"evidence":110},"Useful for boaters, could disrupt entrenched chart plotter market",[111,115],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"6135500","ryandrake","I used work for one of the \"big guys\" writing embedded mapping software for chart plotters, and this looks very, very nice. Great work! Could be very disruptive to a market…",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":117,"source":101,"evidence":118},"Pricing is low and forgiving",[119],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},[121,128,136,147],{"value":122,"source":101,"evidence":123},"Relying on iPad GPS for navigation is unsafe",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"6137359","frenchman_in_ny","As someone who sails, seeing \"Correct and reliable homing\" scares the daylights out of me, particularly when just referencing GPS on the iPad. You have no way to know how…",{"value":129,"source":101,"evidence":130},"Uses low-resolution raster charts rather than vector ENC",[131,132],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"6137349","bcl","Why are you using the raster charts instead of the S57 vector charts? eg. http:\u002F\u002Fwww.charts.noaa.gov\u002FENCs\u002FENCs.shtml Also, if you're interested in AIS support take a look at…",{"value":137,"source":101,"evidence":138},"Chart switching across scales is confusing in small waterways",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"6135677","pflats","Very cool, but on the website version, it's hard to get the appropriate charts for smaller waterways. I thought I'd check out the local bay. At zoom levels to see anything, it…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"6136578","aidenn0","More feedback for you then; Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island) near Wickford has similar issues, made even more obvious by the fact that there is an inset placed just outside the…",{"value":148,"source":101,"evidence":149},"Subscription needed for useful features",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"6139088","killerpopiller","well I am kind of disappointed buying the app. I hoped for using it as a weather overlay for my lake sailing in germany, but without the subscription the app is useless :(",[155,159,163,170],{"value":156,"source":101,"evidence":157},"Show overlapping charts and let users choose scale",[158],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":160,"source":101,"evidence":161},"Explain advantage over existing GPS, paper charts and VHF",[162],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":164,"source":101,"evidence":165},"Support for international charts",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"6135639","PanMan","Looks Nice, does it work in europe, or is it US only?",{"value":171,"source":101,"evidence":172},"Route planning with tides and currents",[173],{"id":174,"by":126,"text":175},"6137317","Congrats building a nice product in a niche space. There's quite a bit of competition out there (Nobletec[1], MaxSea[2]) in case you haven't researched them, but at significantly…",[177,181,185],{"value":178,"source":101,"evidence":179},"How does trip planning handle tides and current?",[180],{"id":174,"by":126,"text":175},{"value":182,"source":101,"evidence":183},"Does it work outside the US?",[184],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},{"value":186,"source":101,"evidence":187},"Why raster charts instead of S57 vector?",[188],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},[190,196,201,205,209],{"value":191,"source":63,"evidence":192},"Navionics",[193],{"id":194,"by":11,"text":195},"6137340","There is a route editor in the app, but it does not account for tides and current, unless you makes notes for each waypoint. It just lets you plot a point-to-point route, and get…",{"value":197,"source":63,"evidence":198},"iNavX",[199,200],{"id":194,"by":11,"text":195},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":202,"source":101,"evidence":203},"MX Mariner",[204],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":206,"source":101,"evidence":207},"Nobeltec",[208],{"id":174,"by":126,"text":175},{"value":210,"source":101,"evidence":211},"MaxSea",[212],{"id":174,"by":126,"text":175},{"comments":214,"answered":33,"key":215},17,[216,219,222],{"id":217,"text":218},"6137563","Thanks for your comments! 1) I didn't know that about issuing a FOIA to get higher res charts, but I'm not sure it would be very feasible. Our server processes the NOAA updates…",{"id":220,"text":221},"6135084","That's a great suggestion, thanks! We focus so much on differentiating against other iPad apps, and maybe we should speak more to the people who don't use their tablets for…",{"id":223,"text":224},"6135892","Thanks! We have never tried to put ads on our product sites, but I could see that working in niches like ours.",{"commenters":226,"max_depth":35,"maker_replies":214,"first_comment_mins":227,"lifespan_hours":228},25,27,152,[230,232,234,236,237,240,242,245,249,250,252,255,256,259,260,263,267,269,272,276,279,281,283,285,286,290,293,296,298,301,303,306,308,312,314,315,319,323,325,329,330,335,339,340,342,344,346,349,351],[54,39,46,231,55,39],"project\u002Fmixed\u002Fexecution",[217,39,39,233,11,42],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[58,42,46,235,59,39],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fdocs",[220,42,39,233,11,42],[238,42,39,239,152,39],"6137147","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[125,42,42,241,126,39],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fperformance",[243,42,39,244,152,39],"6139082","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fperformance",[246,34,46,247,248,39],"6135624","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","applecore",[223,34,39,233,11,42],[140,46,42,251,141,39],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fexecution",[253,46,39,254,11,42],"6135729","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[144,46,42,251,145,39],[105,257,35,258,106,39],4,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fpricing",[69,257,39,233,11,42],[261,257,35,262,106,39],"6135061","maker\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[264,257,39,265,266,39],"6136609","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea","instaheat",[268,257,39,233,11,42],"6136670",[270,257,35,271,266,39],"6136734","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[273,257,39,274,275,39],"6137067","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","pigscantfly",[277,35,35,262,278,39],"6135322","reeses",[280,35,39,233,11,42],"6135359",[282,35,39,239,278,39],"6135542",[174,284,46,247,126,39],6,[194,284,39,233,11,42],[287,32,46,288,289,39],"6135712","project\u002Fmixed\u002Fpricing","milesokeefe",[291,32,39,292,11,42],"6135766","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[294,32,46,295,289,39],"6136832","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[297,32,39,292,11,42],"6136869",[299,32,39,274,300,39],"6138042","erikig",[151,32,42,302,152,39],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fpricing",[133,304,46,305,134,39],8,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution",[307,304,39,233,11,42],"6137535",[309,310,46,247,311,39],"6136721",9,"IanDrake",[313,310,39,233,11,42],"6136743",[112,33,35,271,113,39],[316,317,35,271,318,39],"6138073",11,"ahulak",[320,321,46,233,322,39],"6134910",12,"strick",[324,321,39,233,11,42],"6134982",[326,327,46,295,328,39],"6135163",13,"owenjones",[66,327,39,292,11,42],[331,332,42,333,334,39],"6136218",14,"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdesign","YellowRex",[336,337,39,274,338,39],"6135093",15,"sbuccini",[84,337,39,274,11,42],[341,337,39,274,338,39],"6170073",[167,343,46,247,168,39],16,[345,343,39,233,11,42],"6135685",[347,343,46,305,348,39],"6136472","vmarsy",[350,343,39,233,11,42],"6136493",[352,214,35,271,353,39],"6135459","cpursley",[],[356,361,366,370,374,378],{"id":357,"name":358,"points":359,"category":360},"6128700","CoreOS",417,"infrastructure",{"id":362,"name":363,"points":364,"category":365},"6133796","GearSketch",201,"learning_science",{"id":367,"name":368,"points":369,"category":20},"6114023","blinklink.me",143,{"id":371,"name":372,"points":373,"category":360},"6112349","boxcars",106,{"id":375,"name":376,"points":377,"category":365},"6134789","Bitcast.io",82,{"id":379,"name":380,"points":381,"category":382},"6119797","git-deliver",66,"dev_tools",false,"v2",{"id":386,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":383,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":29,"s":387,"top":18,"kw":388,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":39,"strip":389,"url":9,"mix":390,"praise":100,"objection":122,"sub":21},6134616,0.1,[24,25,26,27,28],"3030103011505050503030301330553301003035",[32,33,34,35],1794036508596]