joepestro's comments

For your website you'll want to pick something that users will be able to display and have installed by default.

HN primarily uses Verdana. Google primarily uses Arial. 37signals uses a combo of Helvetica (generic sans-serif if not present) and Georgia.

Looks cool, but while we're on the subject - what makes this better than the established players like Campfire (http://campfirenow.com/)?

Great post. I think you highlight the real value of the HN community. High quality discussion makes listening for ideas easier as there is more signal with less noise to wade through.

There are few other places on the web where you can listen for quality ideas, discuss problems, and get feedback at a really fast (and efficient) rate.

I assume you need access to iPhone hardware features (microphone, etc). Unfortunately, you can't do that through mobilesafari.

Check out the iPhone SDK for more info: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/

Wow, I'm glad not everyone shares your mindset.

CSS grids aren't that difficult, but I find http://960.gs/ really useful. Having a nice, packaged example of best practices comes in handy.

If this saves me 5 minutes each time I want to create a quick firefox extension, it provides value. Thanks for sharing, trevelyan!

Jetpack is an additional extension install for users.

This framework looks like it builds native extensions without an extension needing to be preinstalled - at least until jetpack is shipped with ff.

I'm looking forward to this series.

So, am I reading this right? TicketStumbler has become a maintenance project for a summer intern?

1. Awesome visual design

2. I really like the screenshots and large sign up button. They're all the same screenshot, though, so I can't get a better idea of what is inside.

3. I'm not the target audience since I'm not a professor. I wish there was a video or more screenshots so that I could see all your work before I need to create an account.

Small CSS issue: I'm on FF3, looks like a vertical spacing issue with your search go button (id is global_search-submit).

This could be made into an iPhone app for email/sms.

It wouldn't replace the native keyboard on the iPhone, but would allow users to compose their message using this triangular keyboard and forward the text to the appropriate application.

For sure, and we agree.

We're not looking to convert on this audience (HN/techcrunch/digg/reddit etc) - we just launched and we think feedback like this from really smart people is super useful. We're still gathering information before we feel like we can present an easy-to-use package for consumers.

It's harder on price comparison forums to ask our customers what they want and get a conversation started when they're looking to discuss the best deals on digital cameras. We tell them about the product, and hope they try it out. If they don't reach out to submit feedback, it doesn't help us as much in improving.

It's awesome how much you understand our situation when this is the first time you've seen what we're working on. This was exactly what we've been struggling with, and having another perspective on it is extremely helpful.

And, you went through the trouble of mocking something up and sharing it with us. We'll definitely take a close look at your ideas. Thanks.

Point taken.

It's actually more similar than might appear at first glance. Google Wave is real time, and when someone types/edits the wave you're looking at, you see that. On Browseology, when someone types in a search or any other text, you see that. When you change pages, so does everyone else. It's this real time updating that lets everyone browsing together see the same thing.

We're really excited about Browseology, it's true. Of course I have a lot of respect for what we've built from scratch. We tried to let people know about it while Google Wave was getting a lot of attention. This wasn't the right place to do that.

And you're right - we're not Google. Does that mean we can't build something that would be useful for you? We wanted to let everyone know that they could try this out now (instead of waiting months for the public release of Wave) to see what this aspect of real time collaboration looks like.

We tried this recently with Browseology. It backfired.

We agree with Google. This is the same idea behind our newly launched startup, http://www.browseology.com

If you don't want to wait for Google Wave to see updates from everyone in real time, check it out.

Thanks Google! This totally validates our collaborative browsing startup, http://www.browseology.com

If you don't want to wait for Google Wave to see updates from everyone in real time, check it out.

Browseology is available now! Developed by myself and kineticac. You can browse together in real time with Amazon support, but more coming very soon.

congrats!

Yep, this is basically bittorrent that tries to guess what you want based on keywords.

The web-based version of this is FriendFeed. Pick what you want to see (subscribe to friends/groups) and get a feed of articles, videos, pictures, etc.

Thanks for taking the time to show what you had in mind. We're very quickly iterating over new homepage designs and will be sure to highlight the main interaction.

Thanks for the great feedback.

You're right - Browseology isn't obvious at first glance. That's the biggest area that we're tackling right now, since as kineticac mentioned, it's a new concept to be browsing together without installation.

Experts are a huge part of the value prop. We're emphasizing that we're able to connect you to people who are are interested in what you're looking for.

If you come across more - I'd love to talk about it, [email protected]