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by tastefulwords 5y ago
Thank you for thinking about this and trying to help. I wholeheartedly agree with you in spirit. If I could launch today, I would. If I could build a launch-able version of this, by myself, in a month, I would. Sadly, though, neither of tho
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to think about this -- and even more for taking the time to also write. I agree with your feedback. On the one hand, the deck is meant to be short and to invite conversation -- which it has done. On t
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
I should've been more explicit. My post was on the Ask HN page, near the top; then it suddenly disappeared, from one moment to the next. My guess is that would only happen if either too many people clicked "hide", or because
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
If, looking at the demo, what you saw was "a simple form" then our perspectives are far enough apart that I don't see how they could ever meet. Nonetheless, I thank you for taking the time to write.
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
P.S. I submitted this yesterday too. My post got hidden/shadow-banned, and I don't know why. Trying again, as this is my very last hail-Mary, before I burn down nearly a year of full-time work on (what I think is) a great idea.
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Ask HN: I built a programming language for contracts; I’m out of options; help?
7 points by tastefulwords 5y ago|10 comments
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
I think you're probably right. But, sadly, I have neither the energy nor the financial liberty to do so, after the nearly one year of full-time work that it took to get here. (The demo isn't just a mockup; the tech that powers it
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
Breakdown of the first year, which is what 500k will get me (barely): - Month 1-to-4: Design/Build. - Month 5: Private beta with 10/20 freelancers. - Month 6: Start enterprise case-study. - Month 7: Soft launch for Freel
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by tastefulwords 5y ago
You can't use it yet because what I deem an MVP for this is far-away from what I have right now. At the moment, the tech is probably 80% of the way to what would be in a v1, but the design/experience is maybe 20% of the way there.
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Ask HN: I made a programming language for contracts; I’m out of options; help?
10 points by tastefulwords 5y ago|6 comments
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Some great books in arkitaip's comment. But start with this one: "The Non-Designer's Design Book" -- it'll teach you how much of "great design" is "great typography".
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Actually, it would still be possible to do that, if we instituted some sort of a HN-wide policy that the person who wants to gauge interest should make that to-be-upvoted comment -- that's because comment authors do see the pints of their o
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Glad you asked this -- as many people think my opinion on this subject is something other than what it actually is. I don't hate advertising. Good advertising I actually love. Unfortunately, there's lots and lots of the horrible variety and
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Not really. But I want(ed) to see if there is genuine interest in something like that. I'd hate to write/post uninteresting stuff.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Oh and one more thing: I'm honestly not trying to draw even more traffic this way. I really really wanted to thank the community -- a lot. The clickable link is here just because some of you think it's bad form to post about an app, without
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Clickable: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
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Thanks HN: Readable is doing very very well
8 points by tastefulwords 15y ago|8 comments
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I'll look into it, and see if i can fix that.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. This is already a planned feature; so look forward to seeing it sometime soon.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I agree with you about the names -- and I really wish I could've thought of something clever when I first named it; unfortunately, it's a bit late now.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Boston.com is now fixed; thanks for the report. As for your issues on printing: thank you. I had honestly not given printing very much thought -- as I don't really use it myself. Your ideas make a lot of sense, though; so count on seeing th
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Thanks for the info, Bram. I'll be sure to hit you up if/when I have any questions.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I'll be sure to look into exactly how Apture works -- and, if possible, I'll make it work inside of Readable's overlay too.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Quoted from an email, where I answered the same exact question: Most likely, Readable will never have multi-page support. The reason for this is Readable's philosophy, and not any technical difficulties that feature may imply. It i
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
I believe there's an extension (for Firefox, at least) that allows you to create custom buttons for bookmarklets. In the near future, a native solution will be available -- i.e. I'm working on a thin extension, for all browsers, that will a
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Readable's interface is due for a slight overhaul. But I haven't yet decided what the new design is going to be. I will take your suggestions into consideration, though. As for the work: you are most welcome.
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
Thanks for confirming. Read my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526937
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
The problem, in the steps you said you followed, is the "Print Preview" step. File >> Print Preview will show you a preview of how the entire current page will look like, when printed -- but that's actually not what you want to prin
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by tastefulwords 15y ago
You are most welcome. It was -- and still is -- my pleasure.

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