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Comment by stephengillie | Hacker News Reader

Interesting idea.

Those with neither Apple devices nor a Facebook account can't try this out.

Edit: My tired mind didn't realize this at first - this service utilizes both photos and statuses of the same person. Facebook is one of the few services which brings together a person's photographs and status updates, and has a large stock of both. The next best supply would be...a mash-up of Twitter and Flikr?

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This explanation helps more than the link does to tell me what this application does.

So, it's a photo and status slideshow mashup? Why not advertise it as such?

The buddhist(?) jargon makes this extremely unapproachable to people not versed in this terminology. I hear "lessons in compassion" and imagine a religious lecture over war orphan pictures or something equally unappealing.

I'm the app's author. We are thinking about letting users create their profiles in the app. That would be "practice material" for users without Facebook accounts. Another option would be using the address book on the phone.

I think I would be more likely to sign up if the page included a short example of an "exercise in practising compassion". As it stands, I don't have any idea of what this app actually does.

Agreed with crntaylor, it seems like some form of status sharing application but I don't really have a clue.

Please make the "how it works" more prominent. I like the proffered benefit, "practice compassion", but the two screenshots don't really communicate what the product is or how it works.

Alright, then I'll be upfront : I find it really creepy.

It would be opt-in, of course :)

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