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Show HN: Morning, a minimal dashboard app for iPad
- mickcartwright 13y agoHi - would be useful if I could have two instance of the weather app and be able to specify locations. Add to that a tile with flight status - ideally tied in to flightstats/flightaware/triptracker, or even better, my airlines based on frequent flyer logins
- jeffd 13y agoMultiple weather panels will be available in an update. We had it enabled in beta versions, but it could get confusing so we only allowed one for 1.0. The flight tracker idea is a good one, I'll look into it. Thanks!
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoNice app! Can't wait for the iPhone version :) It looks like you're using Paperfold (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/paperfold https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/paperfold). Mind adding it to the list of apps that use it on Cocoa Controls? Also, I'd love to know if you use any other OSS components. I'm always looking for apps to highlight as my 'app of the week'.
- jeffd 13y agoSure I'll add it to the list.
- epoxyhockey 13y agoHow have I not heard about cocoacontrols.com until now? Many thanks for excellent site!
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoThanks, and you're welcome :)
- samweinberg 13y agoYou run Cocoa Controls? Thanks for creating such a great resource!
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoI do! Glad you like it :)
- yoshgoodman 13y agoCant wait for droid!
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y agoDo you happen to work on an android version, or is that simply too much work?
- jeffd 13y agoWe are mainly Mac and iOS guys and probably wouldn't be able to do an Android tablet version as well, since we don't use the platform. And yeah, making the iOS version was enough work as is.
- samstokes 13y agoFor something similar on Android, the Google Now home screen widget has some of the same functionality and (presumably) philosophy, albeit with a more minimal design.
- calinet6 13y agoGoogle Now is basically the same idea, but even more interesting/extensible. Maybe not quite as "Morning" oriented UX-wise, but it satisfies the same needs for me. I can look at it in the morning and see the weather, commute time, tasks, calendar events, etc on a dashboard. Works great!
- kenhaggerty 13y agoNice.
- hxw 13y agoNice!
- ZanderEarth32 13y agoLove the look. Without having a chance to download it yet, how does the to-do list part work? Is it pulling a to-do list from one of my current to-do list apps, or do I need to create another one for this? Any future chance for support for a Twitter feed or possibly an RSS feed? Am I the only one that wished this is what the iOS 7 lock screen looks like?
- jeffd 13y agoThe to-do part is pulling them in from iOS' built in Reminders app. That means you don't have to have yet another to-do app and it syncs via iCloud to your Mac and other devices. The same goes for the events/calendar panel. They are both using Apple's EventKit API. The news panel supports RSS feeds and Twitter is a possible option in the future, I'll look into doing it.
- buza 13y agoIt would be great if the ycombinator RSS feed worked. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- marknutter 13y agoI remember seeing a mockup of this on Dribbble a while back. Is the result?
- jeffd 13y agoYes it is! Chris and I have been working on this for the past few months since that Dribbble post. http://dribbble.com/shots/780188-Morning http://dribbble.com/shots/780188-Morning
- marknutter 13y agoAwesome, great work. I was hoping this would become a reality.
- chrismasterson 13y agoThanks! Happy to hear people like it.
- fourstar 13y agoWhat a great idea. Nice looking app
- joeblau 13y agoThis reminds me a lot of windows live tiles, but in an app. I think the concept is great, but it would be better if this could somehow integrated into the lock screen.
- bhauer 13y agoI'm not an iOS user, but I agree. This reminded me of the sort of one-screen dashboard I get from my Windows Phone home and Surface start menu. It looks really clean and professionally designed. Bravo to the OP for a job very well done. Not being an iOS user, I'm not sure how readily you can extend the lock screen, but I agree with joeblau. It's really handy to have a subset of these data points on the lock-screen. I'd like to have TSLA right there before I even swipe the lock screen away. :) That's not possible (to my knowledge) on Windows.
- adamalix 13y agoGreat work guys! Have a timeline for iPhone support?
- jeffd 13y agoWe plan to make it a universal app sometime in the near future. We just wanted to focus on making it great on the iPad first, where we thought the concept worked best.
- shade 13y agoI really like the idea and I will be checking this out, particularly since I have a long-ish commute to the office. I will say, though, that I think for the way my morning routine tends to go, it would be more useful to me as a Mac app. I almost always look at my MBP in the mornings before leaving for work, but rarely make a point of checking my iPad, so I could see this being really useful for me as a full-screen Mac app, where I can just leave it running on a space. Any plans in that direction? :)
- jeffd 13y agoI've thought about a Mac app version of it, just haven't had the time to mock it up and prototype it. I can you keep you posted on that front, but the next thing on the list is iPhone support.
- dpcx 13y agoI'd be interested in a Mac app as well. I just signed up for the iPhone mailing list :)
- kunaalarya 13y agoeven better - possibly a Chrome app that comes up when you open a new page. Similar to the Currently Chrome app.
- huffman 13y agoIf you wanted it to persist on a display, you could always airplay an iPad to a tv screen.
- sevenproxies 13y agoI hate not having any other comment to make but I think you would benefit from trying to optimise the size of the main banner image [1]. It's currently clocking in at just under 800KB, and loading it was like downloading an image on dial-up on my very reasonable 30Mbps. Even after reloading a few times it took me 16.8 seconds to download. Good luck with your app and congratulations on shipping. [1] http://images.tamper.io/morning/img/largebg.png http://images.tamper.io/morning/img/largebg.png
- jeffd 13y agoYeah we should fix that ...
- chrismasterson 13y agoI've fixed that now! Sorry about the slow load times.
- zende 13y agoNice! I wake up every day around 5:30am and try to get up and going as quickly as I can. You nailed some of the key things I already do in the morning: - check the weather - figure out what meetings I have for the day The other thing I look for is if there was anything interesting for me that happened while I was sleeping. The best example is how I check to see if there are emails from specific people or internal monitoring services. I could give you about 10 email addresses that I care about and get a digest of emails just from those email address.
- jeffd 13y agoInteresting idea. Are you thinking something along the lines of Mail.app's VIP feature where certain e-mails are propagated to the top or are you just talking about the content of mailing lists you subscribe to?
- zende 13y agoSimilar to how the VIP feature works but in the consolidated view that you've created. I want to see everything in one place. It's too easy to get distracted by other emails once I open Mail.app or, in my case, Mailbox.
- jeffd 13y agoAlright cool. I'll add it to the list of things to look into doing. :-)
- Angostura 13y agoIf it were me, I'd offer an option to see just new e-mails into the VIP box, or all mailboxes.
- romeonova 13y agoDid you guys have trouble getting the app approved via app store? I read that Apple sometimes reject dashboard type apps.
- oellegaard 13y agoWould be great if commute could be either public transport or by bike - I don't have a car, which in Denmark isn't very uncommon for city people. Otherwise great app - now I just need a way for it to be on my TV when i eat breakfast :D
- jeffd 13y agoI live in a city too and don't have a car. I plan on adding public transit support soon, because I really want it too.
- DannoHung 13y agoWalking estimates too? Actually... I mean, I know how long it takes me to walk to work, but it'd be good to just be able to punch a number in. (Maybe automatically multiply by 1.1 or 1.2 when it's raining).
- jeffd 13y agoI guess there are a lot of things you could factor in for walking, but an average speed would probably get a close estimate in most cases.
- mweil 13y agoAirPlay Mirroring with Apple TV? That should do the trick!
- NKCSS 13y agoA Raspberry Pi with RaspBMC has AirPlay support as well, and is a bit cheaper/more functional then an Apple TV ;)
- kposehn 13y agoVery nice. I would love to have an API I could push information to. If I could have our systems send dashboard updates it could alert me to system issues. That would /own/.
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- oneeyedpigeon 13y ago"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - one of my least favourite phrases. I'm curious - what specific features require iOS 6? Why is so much iOS software backwards-incompatible?
- conradev 13y agoDevelopers writing new apps see two things: - High adoption rate of iOS6 - Cool iOS6 APIs (Autolayout, UIKit attributed text, indexed subscripting, etc) and they decide to write for iOS6 only. They could support iOS 5, but the work is not worth the reward with the adoption rate of iOS6 being as high as it is. For developers with existing customers, it is a different story.
- aaronbrethorst 13y agoEven if you're not explicitly taking advantage of new platform, supporting iOS 5 increases your testing burden. For an indie dev (or a pair of developers), this can be a significant burden for minimal payoff, given how few users are on older versions of iOS.
- interpol_p 13y agoIndexed subscripting is available down to iOS 4.x I think — definitely available on iOS 5. It's a compiler technology, not related to the SDK.
- conradev 13y agoNo, declaring literals is a compiler technology that works with any SDK. Subscripting requires runtime support in the form of `-[NSDictionary objectForKeyedSubscript:]` and pals , available only in iOS6 and above: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/reference/foundation/Classes/NSDictionary_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSDictionary/objectForKeyedSubscript http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/r...:
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- ddedden 13y agoThis looks pretty sweet! Just one question: Was there any particular reason for the limiting of color schemes? Why not just show the user a color wheel and let them choose whatever they want?
- wj 13y agoI was just discussing personal dashboards last Friday specifically I was looking for something to run on a Pi. Probably a web dashboard. I didn't really find anything (Kipfolio seems to be the business one) so I ended up registerding some domains. I was thinking of exploring it as my Startup Engineering project. Best of luck with Morning!
- ajacksified 13y agoSmall world, I just started an empty GitHub repository last Friday to build a dashboard to run on my pi.
- rcsorensen 13y agoI had some fantastic luck setting up custom dashboards with Dashing from Shopify. http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ http://shopify.github.io/dashing/
- wj 13y agoGreat link. Thanks! Gonna need to start learning ruby.
- shank8 13y agoso basically they are trying to copy the flat design of Windows 8
- Angostura 13y agoCan I ask who your weather forecast provider is? The only one I bother using in the UK is the BBC or Met Office
- jeffd 13y agoForecast.io, They are awesome!
- sycren 13y agoLooks nice and I really like the site design! Anyone know of a similar blog design template?
- mickcartwright 13y agoInitial comments...I'd like to be able to add the weather app twice, and specify locations not just 'my location' (I commute NY/Chicago Next, stocks app gives no indication of time of change... 1 day? Great idea, had high hopes but so far, not quite there
- jeffd 13y agoMultiple weather panels will be allowed in a future update. We removed them for the launch. Stocks will also get better. Sorry that it's not there yet, but hopefully we'll do a better job with a few more iterations and refinements.
- hnriot 13y agoTraffic doesn't seem to be enabled for me. It's very sparse on information. I'd like to be able to configure other "feeds"
- jeffd 13y agoTap on a panel and select the right circle. It'll give you more panels to choose from.
- ruswick 13y agoAm I the only one who sees a linguistic significance between "buy in the app store" and "download in the app store?" I've always felt as though the latter implied that the product was free. The act of downloading doesn't necessitate relinquishing money, so I tend to think that "purchasing" is a more appropriate verb when linking to paid apps. "Downloading" is a fairly specific verb that generally doesn't involve money, which is why it feels so jarring when I see it used in relation to making a purchase. Does anyone else feel as though "purchase" would be a more appropriate verb for their copy?
- coolsank 13y agoVery nice!