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This is awesome! I've been tossing this kind of idea around for awhile, because every once and awhile I find myself browsing hipmunk for "cheap flights today" to see if there's anything interesting, and a UI with the express purpose of selling short notice cheap flights has a lot of potential.

My thoughts:

- When I'm booking a vacation, especially on short notice I'm going to need lodging. A lot of the price is hidden in the lodging and so I can't be sure if these are good deals or not. Going forward, it might be possible to load lodging in (possibly bake the deals a few times a day to reduce server load) and display 1 singular price that includes everything.

- While you're at it, why not keep playing up this instant vacation thing, take it to the next level. I click the button, pay, and you dispatch a uber to my house to take me to the airport.

- Selling package deals allows you to skim a little off the top in the way of "booking fees", but more interesting is the possibly to use yield management to buy tickets when they are the cheapest, then resell as a "nowcation" later.

Hope you keep working on this.

Aaron was someone who I only knew tangentially until yesterday, and now can only wish that wasn't the case.

I happened to be with some people who knew him much better than I did, and I could only imagine how they're handling this.

Aaron was by all definitions a brilliant guy. His death is visibly shaking the hacker community 2nd only to Jobs (measured by front page stories but also personal experience).

RIP

Github is great, they're working on some serious problems, and every service has downtime.

But this is getting pretty serious.

This is the 3rd time in these last few weeks there has been a "significant service outage"

So much of a typical dev workflow is based around github, but more importantly a lot of new package managers use github as a base. Not being able to pull dependencies is a fairly big problem.

I will continue to use github, because they're awesome. At the same time, we're going to have to start building around it to ensure our uptime isn't reliant on their (less than optimal) uptime.

As good as your tool may be, HN generally frowns on linkspam and SEO "hacking", and you happen to have placed yourself in the worst possible intersection of both.

I came here to say this exactly, and was a little disappointed to see the mixed bag of filepicker impressions.

Filepicker is awesome.

At my job I just had to implement direct to s3 uploads, and filepicker cut down the work by 10x. It's basically a one line implementation to save the contents of a file input to s3. That's awesome.

The pricing is extremely liberal, and the docs are good. I haven't used many of the more advanced features, but even at its simplest form it's an excellent tool.

As for the complaints here, they seem to be mostly pedantic - I would much rather concat a few strings to build the proper s3 URL when the alternative is building the whole upload infrastructure, and once again, that's without considering all the advanced features filepicker gives you.

That would be onswipe [http://onswipe.com/]. They offer a plugin/integration that makes your site "mobile ready" and optimized, meanwhile displaying ads and getting revenue from that.

Except they don't. They just overrule scrolling and cut off content and bombard you with ads. There is a lengthly bashing of them here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610.

"OnSwipe has become a perfect tool for preventing me from viewing content I'd otherwise happily read."

Please don't mess with scrolling.

I'm not trying to be one of the neckbeards who complain about edge cases (it doesn't work with my emacs scroll bindings on my custom build of Lynx, etc), but:

It doesn't work. Trying to override native behavior with custom behavior is always risky, because you not only have to fight with edge cases and undocumented unsupported APIs, but because you run the risk of falling into the uncanny valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley).

I pulled the demo up on my laptop first (macbook with momentum scrolling). Everything worked normally, except not quite. The scrolling lagged a tad bit, flicking didn't scroll it quite as far as normal, something was off. It was a slightly unsettling experience, not one that I would choose to replicate.

I then tried on the intended (I assume) platform: iOS.

I don't know what went wrong, but it didn't work. After a few flicks I got scrolled to the bottom of the page and stuck there. The flicks were incongruent and did not assist in the reading at all.

It's a great idea, and I wish scrolling worked like this. However breaking native functionality is a dangerous game, and if you fuck up you go the way of www.onswipe.com/ which is pretty much universally hated for making perfectly good content unreadable on mobile with the pretense of making it more readable.

I met the double guys at an event earlier in the summer. They had just been accepted into YC and had brought one of their original prototypes to the party and were driving it around.

It was a prototype, with a rough cut aluminum skeleton and questionable balance, but it was still a goddamn iPad segway, and they were driving it around a crowded space talking to people through the camera. It was awesome.

I can't speak to how big the telepresence market is, or how the price point compares, but I wish these guys the best of luck, because while I'm sitting at my desk coding another web application, these guys are building freaking robots.

I've followed snapjoy since they first came out, one of my favorite YC companies. They'd been radio silent for quite some time and I was afraid they'd faded away, so this is great news.

Now if they can get facial recognition and geotagging options working, they will replace iPhoto for me.

In my free time I crew on a 52ft racing yacht.

For those of you unfamiliar with the sailing sport, it is unique in the fact that it is intensely physical and action packed, but also governed very strictly with rules and procedures. It is not uncommon for a crew to finish a race sweaty and exhausted and a few hours later meet in a ballroom in black tie attire to go through a procedure that is reminiscent of courtroom proceedings to determine if a rule was broken or if a foul play was involved.

A team who we often compete alongside recently outfitted their boat with a multitude of GoPros, one on top of the mast, 2 on the bow looking back on the port and starboard gunnel of the boat, 2 on the back looking forward, and 2 looking out on each side. They not only use these to practice, going over the "play by play" if you will, but also during the aforementioned race committee hearings, to establish innocence or wrongdoing. They swear the cameras, which cost them at most $3,000, have won them many a race.

GoPro has done a very good job finding the niche they needed to appeal to, and marketing and fueling that niche to be the backbone of what appears to be a very successful business. Best of luck to them moving forward.

I'm sure Al3x will find success wherever he ends up. This is worrisome for Simple though.

I signed up a little over 2 years ago as when Al3x announced he was joining as a cofounder http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355292, it seemed like a great product, and I couldn't wait.

Now, 2 years later they have begun to roll out invites to what amounts to a MVP. No way to deposit cash, no simple way to deposit checks (specifically the deposit via mobile app functionality), no goals or budgeting aspects, no joint accounts or lines of credit, no android app, just a nice looking card tied to an account you have to wire money into.

Don't get me wrong, simple is doing great things, and it could be huge. Two years of dev time for a product that is completely redesigning one of the biggest industries in the world is completely reasonable. I'm just worried the hype will run out or turn negative before they can ship something with enough value to convert the non early adapters. Having a cofounder leave doesn't help their image, regardless of the reasons for the departure.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I am happy to see svbtle links on the frontpage because I usually read HN on mobile and svbtle is really easy on the eyes to read.

Here is a screenshot http://cl.ly/image/2L3y3Y1K0k2W

What would you do to make it more readable?

Not as well known (yet) but Clever has some nifty docs that allow for creating and testing queries against demo data right from the page.

https://getclever.com/developers/docs

"Never underestimate the importance of a great app icon. It’s the first thing a user sees before downloading your app (I’ve downloaded apps in the past solely on the icon making the app seem interesting)."

I cannot stress the importance of this. I have payed money for apps over their free counterparts because the icon looks better. It's a bite sized preview of the experience I can expect to have with your whole app, and more often than not, the quality of the icon is directly correlated to the quality of the UI and UX as a whole.

UX bug that is actually fairly glaring when it comes down to it:

I searched for "Facebook Camera" in the app store, but because it is so new, it is not there (ok, seems normal)

I went to the site and clicked "Text link to my phone", phone number already filled out, text went through fine (so far so good)

Clicked on the link, but facebooks mobile detection caught it before the redirect happened, didn't know how to handle the url, and redirected me to the facebook homepage instead (I was logged in, so this was my news feed page).

This leaves me with basically no way it install the app unless I wait for it to be indexed in the app store, or download to my computer, both of which I do not want to do.

... I thought that was what your script solved. If not, then you have some serious copy issues.

I may be alone here, but running latest chrome on osx, I am taken to the app store and google play market when clicking the links.

It's handwritten code on top of jquery UI. There are a bunch of form elements (text inputs) that have been styled, and you can drag and drop them to rearrange.

Hey, thanks for the feedback, the price will change or be removed for sure. In the meantime, I'd be happy to set you or your girlfriend up with a free account, but can't find your email in your profile. Email me, mine is in my profile, if you're interested.

A parsing bookmarklet is on the horizon, I've begun on the backend for it already.

You can download your recipes as a pdf at any time.

Oh wow, I had never seen onetsp before. They compete almost directly with me. I agree on the price, and currently brainstorming different ways to monetize.

The important thing that differentiates this is that it is solely a replacement for a recipe box or other strategy for storing recipes. Most other recipe managers are tacking added on to recipe discovery tools. 7courses allows for sharing recipes, but is 100% focused on making it dead simple to manage your recipes.

And we have a kick ass mobile web app.

I am happy to announce to relaunch of 7courses.com!

I launched almost exactly a year ago, as a sort of weekend project http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087598

I've sort of let it stagnate, and gotten a few users, mentioned on smashing magizine, but nothing major. However, I use the app quite a lot, and was getting tired of some small bugs, so decided to recode and relaunch. 

The app is 100% JavaScript, node js backend and thick js frontend (jammy.js, model.js, etc). It is a mobile web app, looks great on iPad and iPhone too.

I got enough feedback that I decided to charge for it, but for a day the first 100 signups will get a month free!

The price is very tentative, and I'm open to any and all suggestions. Also, if you would like to give accounts away on a blog etc, contact me, I'd be happy to set something up.

Any and all feedback is welcome, thanks a ton!

Using site:cherry.com pulled this up http://help.cherry.com/entries/20208543-where-do-i-wash-cars which clears up the location (somewhat). There are no defined locations, they matchmake cleaners with dirty cars. It's a chicken egg problem.

The audience vote was tallied here (it's closed now). Scratch table destroyed. http://voter.brooklynhacker.com/

Same on windows7.

This is for some reason one of my favorite articles I've read on HN in awhile. Probably because it is so (personally) profoundly true, and reads almost like poetry.

extremetech.com uses onswipe.

Onswipe sucks.

You can read people lamenting onswipe here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610.

Onswipe benefits no one. It makes the content unreadable, and doesn't add any value for anyone except themselves.

I don't read sites that use onswipe, in part because I want to boycott them, but mainly because I simply cannot get the UI to work. I suggest you avoid them too.

If I recall from the original article, they didn't know what to put there yet, it was just undesignated space, and they jokingly labeled it "tennis courts".

http://cdespinosa.posterous.com/plan