AlexLa

Hi Guys,

I need your advice. Some time ago I built myself a boomarking webapp. It wasn't feature rich. Just something which helps to save a link from my phone and open it on my laptop later. The problem for me where solved.

Later I saw the pocket app came out, read a post about pinboard.in and I though, if people actually paying for these services, I could add some features to my app and release it. I redesigned it( you know what happens when dev is trying to design :) ) and wrote some. But now reading about all the stuff people building I don't see this project is valuable anymore.

It's now at the point where it saves your links via a browser bookmarklet, downloads the page in background on the server and uploads saved pages to the google cloud storage. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/kfmc0

The question is: what do you think I should do with the project? Do you see some potential in it? I mean, how do you think, can I add some functionality, put a monthly price on it and get some customers (Note: My marketing skills are even worse than my english), or should I just open source the potentially useful modules ( for example, full page download ) and release them on github and NPM ( the whole thing is written in node.js btw)?

Hi guys, I want to show you my WordPress plugin and possibly get some feedback.

URL: http://griffinthemes.com

I didn't like mobile menus in modern responsive web designs. They are either an unusable <select> element or a cropped menu with a ugly jerking animation. Once I saw an article on codrops with a off-canvas navigation menu which I really liked. I recreated that idea from scratch to get a good performance and made it a WordPress plugin to see if there's an interest in it.

I tried to sell it on CodeCanyon but that didn't work very well. They decided that this is a 'blatant copy' of a codrops menu ( despite my request to review the code ) and shut down my account with a dozen of purchases. :(

I wan't to know what do you think of it? Is it useful? Should I make it a standalone javascript library?

Hi everyone. I made a bookamrklet to solve a little annoyance that I think bothers some of you too. When people post a link to a HN post and you follow it in a mobile browser there's no easy way to load the opened page in the HN mobile app. So I made this little bookmarklet that does just that - opens current HN page in HN mobile web app made by Lim Chee Aun http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/.

Installation page: http://neocoder.github.com/hnmbookmarklet/

I hope you'll find it useful.

I'm in the design process of a Twitter app. Basically its a twitter client ( yeah, another one ) that arranges you tweets timeline in a different way then all the other apps do. I know that the creators of twitter don't recommend to work on the apps that somehow improve the presentation of the tweets. They told that this is their goal ( to improve user experience ) and there is a possibility that the features that your app has could be implemented in their web interface and you could loose your clients.

So the question is: is it worth to work on a twitter client and how much would you pay for such a service a month?

Many of you run some kind of businesses and have email lists of your customers.

What would make you leave the Mailchimp, CampaignMonitor, etc. and use our desktop product for your email campaigns?

The main benefit of it -- a one-time payment.

URL: http://www.glocksoft.com/easymail/

What do you think about the site and software? Do you think it has a potential in the world of web apps?

My friend asked me for help to build an affordable Janrain alternative. He creates a non-profit website and Janrain's $100/month is a way too much to pay from his own pocket.

My question: do you use any of such services and/or see any value in them?

I personally think that they create more problems than they solve.

1st – they just don’t work. Usually, after login with Janrain or Gigya, site owners redirect you to the form where they ask you for an additional information that wasn’t in the service response (email, age, address, etc.). What makes the widget just a form filling tool that doesn't work (Try to sing in to the Reuters.com with your Twitter account)

2nd - user must remember what social service he used to login to the site. Using others will lead to creation of a new account.

These two problems bother me the most but there’s more. So, what do you think? Please, share your wisdom.