I never got to the actual product/website itself. There were 4 popup dialogs that I had to wade through first, and I bailed. My advice is, don't antagonize or put roadblocks on your potential users before they can even begin to absorb your product.
This is actually my first real feedback since launching, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to tell me this instead of just closing the tab.
You're 100% right — 4 popups before seeing the product is ridiculous. I got so caught up building features that I forgot what the first visit actually feels like.
Good news: I just pushed a fix. Disabled the welcome tour completely and the install prompt now only shows after you create an account. Should just be a small cookie notice at the bottom now.
If you get a chance to revisit, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think of the actual product. And honestly, any other feedback — good or bad — is welcome. Solo founder here trying to build something useful, and this kind of input is exactly what I need.
I agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic.
I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't.
Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.
Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).
I assume that answer is not official, since there's nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot.
The original iPhone came pre-loaded with Google search, Maps, and Youtube. Jobs competed with Google but he also knew Google had best-in-class products too.
I rewatched it in recent weeks and enjoyed all the bits that I enjoyed years ago during the first watch. The stories I found a bit tedious first time (High Sparrow plotline, Arya and faceless men) weren't as miserable; I think I was expecting them to drag on even more. My biggest grievance on the rewatch was just how poorly it's all tied up. I again enjoyed The Long Night through the lens of 'spectacle over military documentary'. The last season just felt like they wrote themselves into a corner and didn't have time and patience to see it through. By that point, actors were ready to move on, etc.
I don't really view this as the show runners fault. GRRM was unable to complete his own work. The show worked best when it drew from the authors own material (GRRM was a screenwriter himself and knew how to write great dialog/scenes).
It's absolutely the producer's fault. They actively choose to release the product they did instead of making more episodes, taking long, bringing other people in to help, etc.
Martin has claimed he flew to HBO to convince them to do 10 seasons of 10 episodes instead of the 8 seasons with just 8 episodes in the final one [1]. It was straight up just D.B. Weiss and David Benioff call how the series ended.
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