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0 pointstdr14y ago0 comments

Wow! Great feedback! Thank you!

Now for the answers:

1. my bad. I was doing some optimizations on the web server (via http://gtmetrix.com ). Now it should work

2. true! received same feedback yesterday. will change.

3. just thought it would look better. but that doesn't mean better experience. will change them (for bigger images just click them)

4. originally KeenSkim was built for RSS feeds. After starting the alpha testing we pivoted to the webpage bookmarklet. It works so well that we didn't improve the RSS part. To be fixed in the next weeks (opml support)

5. Not yet but great idea! we'll do that

7. It's not social (not built with this intention in mind, but could be). Social auth and simpler login are in the top 3 priorities after stabilizing the summarization algorithm

8. will look on that

9. the cookies are for the site, not the bookmarklet (cross-domain calls). It's mainly for login (standard Django). Does it bother you in any specific way?

10. mainly a freemium approach. the exact business model is not clear (we'll test it after we get an idea about usage, costs, growth, ...). Do you have anything in mind?

About the results: there are pages on which it work good, on some pages great and on some really bad. The problem on this article is that it has several story-lines and KeenSkim doesn't work well on that (interviews, lists, tutorials won't be properly summarized)

EDIT: There is still space for improving the service. That's priority no. 1

Where there other news that you read?

Thanks again!

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natep14y ago

I'm glad I can help.

3. It might be good to keep the tilted pics in the slideshow, and straight pictures (or actual text) elsewhere. Or maybe tilted everywhere! I can tell you what bothers me, but what really matters is how many clickthroughs you get, right?

7. IMO, it shouldn't be social (how would it be?) so no usernames are necessary, but I'm probably not your average user. Nor have I ever created an online service/business, so keep that in mind when following my advice.

9. I don't know about bothered, since I have cookies enabled for everything else. It'd be less weird if you made it clear the cookie didn't track me across other sites,

10. No, just want to make sure you're thinking about it before possibly getting attached to a service that might not survive (e.g. you get bought and the buyer shuts it down). If I found the service useful (and especially if I were a CEO/executive, I think), I would love to pay for it, either a 1-time fee (like I did with Pinboard.in), or yearly subscription. Crazy idea: maybe you could license the software to news sites so they can have built-in highlighting with the click of a link (similar to 'print-friendly' links every article has)

My RSS reader has few enough feeds that I've been able to read them all, but I've been careful to only add feeds that I could keep up with (with keenskim, that might change). Other than that, I stick to the top of HN.