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cannedapps says...

 

We launched Printfolder as an invite bound beta the 28th of October in Estonia. After observing the activities among Printfolder users, we instantly found a behavior that needed approvement, notification emails. As we want to be able to notify customers when new offers arrive, new messages are written on the discussion board and so on, we have a rather all-round observer attached to each event. Now imagine this: you, a customer, receive an offer from 5 different print shops, where each print shop also adds a message containing additional offer details, or just a quick note letting you know about their enthusiasm about working with you. As each event triggers a mail notification, you have now received 10 emails already. Wow, that's a lot, you could even call it.. spam!

Of course, we do not want to pollute your inbox, and that's why we developed a new solution. Instead of sending you a new email as soon as you receive a message or an offer or likewise, Printfolder sends you an abridged version of your account activities, since the last email report. The abridged report could look something like this:

If there haven't been any activities, then you will of course not receive any email.

Also, you can now choose just how often you want to receive your report. This is great news as you can adjust Printfolder with respect to your ordinary workflow, not the other way around. You can choose your preferred delivery interval under your account settings:

Right now, there are three different choices:

Are you missing any option? Please let us know!

We are right now working on several improvements that we'll apply as soon as they're production ready. To stay ahead of the game, please subscribe to our blog feed.

Thank you for showing interest in Printfolder!
By Kevin

 

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Johann says...

Bugs, bugs, bugs

Software bugs are annoying so I fixed some more.

  • Repeatedly uploading files would not work in Internet Explorer. This was a caching issue.
  • Don’t log file names during download. Nobody seemed to care about this bug but it was easy to fix for the next version of media.io.

Time for tests!

It’s no secret I love testing. I’m a bad designer and a bad copywriter, but I don’t have to be good because I can let my users tell me what they like. In the next days, I’ll start another multivariate test that should answer some of my questions regarding button and help text placement.

Survey

I would like to find out how you use media.io and I have created a short survey. If you have 30 seconds, please take the survey. Thank you!

New upload layout

I mentioned that people are occasionally uploading files but never converting them. In response to that, I’ve completely redesigned the file upload. You can see it in the screenshot below. Soon, when you convert audio at media.io, it’ll be painfully obvious how much data you’ve already uploaded.

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Archimage says...

I promised to announce the first major feature. As I mentioned, major features would be an option you can buy if you want that feature. This would allow you to tailor Auteureist to your needs while allowing me to justify creating it by charging about a dollar or two for each feature.

I also said I'd make the first major feature free to everyone that purchased 1.0 to thank you all for the Apple iTunes App Srore problems we are still waiting to have resolved. I've decided on that first feature (I was considering which of five on the list would be the most fun.)

There are two related features that make up what I've been thinking of as "prod mode.". This mode would incent you and motivate you to write more. Basically, it would be a way to force you through weiter's block and stalling. I'll eventually build prod mode, but one key piece of it is going to be the first feature and act as the foundation.

The first new feature will be an achievement system. Auteureist will track your creative output and reward you with virtual points and medals for reaching various milestones. Your achievements will be posted to the Auteureist website where you can see how you compare to others. This would add more of a game/competition element to writing.

There are two issues I need to resolve. First, how do I make sure you are actually writing and not just entering garbage to earn points. Second, and more important to me is that I want to set up a way for you to cash in your points for real stuff, like coupons or software. This would bring a tangible reward for writing.

The real reward part may never come to fruition. It all depends on a bunch of stuff. I'll see what is possible.

So that's it. Achievements will be the next major feature. There is no timeframe at this point. Varsion 1.1 will focus on bug fixes, minor enhancement, and the simplification of the UI. I expect it to be out in 1.2 or 1.3. There is a lot of stuff that I need to work out and set up to support achievements.

Achievements will be integrated into "prod mode" some point after that. Prod mode will be unlockable whereas achievements will be free if you got 1.0. If you purchase Auteureist after 1.0 it will be unlockable via in-app purchase.

That's another thing I have to work on, figuring out how in-app purchases work.

One last point. Monday will be five business days since my email from Apple. I'll wait until Wednesday before I follow up.

Sent from Auteureist™ - http://auteureist.com/

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Archimage says...

I wanted to use this particular blog entry to show you one of the features of Auteureist™ 1.0. If you've gone through the documentation on the web site, you may have noticed mention of a mobile web site that you get to through the Auteureist About Screen.

By tapping the "Mobile" button, you will launch Safari on the iPhone and be taken to the mobile website. This website is for users of Auteureist only, and is totally separate from the main Auteureist site, although obviously related. So what is this site?
When you tap the "Mobile" button you get to the main page:

From here you have links to all of the mobile-only content. Additionally, you get an "outgoing link" to the main development blog (this site: http://auteureist.posterous.com). The purpose of the mobile site is to make it easier to get the latest news, and support information. The mobile forums are for all of you to discuss writing and Auteureist. The entire site is designed to be easy to use from an iPhone. So let's take a look at the individual sections. The "What's New?" section displays the latest application version history.

You can drill down to get details and is a simplified version of the Version information found on the main site. As I update the main site, the mobile site will reflect the changes.

The "Submit A Bug" section allows you to do just that.

It's a quick an easy way to do so without having to log into the main site. This is a scrollable screen so this screenshot only shows you the top portion of the screen. You can also use this form to submit ideas and suggestions.

The next section, "Mail Me" will just launch the built-in mail app and pre-address an email to me. You can use this for general questions and things the Bug Report form can't handle.

Next, is the biggest section, the "Mobile Forums". Tapping this item will bring you to the log in screen:

You should note that the Mobile Forums are totally independent of the ones on the main site. So the mobile forums require a separate log in. You should use the "Sign up!" item to create your login information. Once you've set up your username and password you can use this screen to log into the forums. The first thing you'll see is the welcome screen with any late-breaking news about the forums themselves:

(here is the bottom half that allows you to edit your account information.)

Tap "Forum" and you will be taken to the actual forums:

Here you can post and read messages posted by others. This is a fairly easy environment to use and get around in.


So which site should you use? The main one or the mobile one? It really depends. The main site is where you'll get all the details, screenshots, along with discussions by people who do and don't use Auteureist. The mobile site is meant for access from the iPhone so it is more convenient to use on the device itself. The forums will only be available to people who have Auteureist, so the discussions on it should be more relevant.


So, that's the mobile site. It's something I added very early, and hopefully it will make using Auteureist more fun and useful to use, and to help grow a writing community around it. I hope you enjoy it (once the app is downloadable.)

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Archimage says...

Well, now that I've given up trying to figure out where and what my main character should do and let him have his head, the writing has just poured out. It took me about an hour for tonight's chunk of 1800 or so words. At this point, I'm committed to my character and his story. It's too late to change course in any significant way. It may not be the most interesting story or book in the world, but its a first draft. There are going to be lots of things I'll have to polish and modify in the later drafts. Such is writing. That's the hard part for me.

I've started working on the next update to Auterueist. One thing I didn't like about 1.0 is that when you have a lot of text it may take a second or two to backup and restore. In 1.0, there was no real progress indicator. I've added one to 1.1 so you will now know something is happening and you won't be confused. This is what it looks like:

There is a similar one for restoring. It's the thing I personally wanted most, and I'm glad to say the next release will have it. I'll have more to say about it on the development blog in the future.

So, back to writing. How did I do? 1870 words today for a total of 21178.

Total:

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Jonathan says...

If you have a file you want to share with a group in Saturate, you can attach that file to a memo. For example, you may want to share a graph you made in Excel or the audio from an interview. This video shows you how to do it.

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vsagarv says...

"The thrill of possibility, the chance for recognition, the chemical high of anticipation.That's what people pay for." - Seth Godin

Don't take Godin's words literally and say that people also pay for their plain bread loaf daily. If you are a startup making bread loaves, good for you and read no further.

Many of us in the startup space start out with dreams of changing the world. (Being the next Google is secondary; We actually dream of dwarfing GOOG). But then, quite mysteriously, we tend to forget that dream while conceptualising & engineering the product. For example:

  • "Aggregation / mashup / kitchen sink": My product has all the features that all competitors have. [So, what? Can it change the world?]
  • "Differentiated": My product has features that no one else has out there. [So, what? ...]
  • "Improved": My product improves productivity / experience. [So? ...]

Those are actually examples of subtly disguised "me too" products. Since there's no 'thrill of possibility', such products are at the mercy of luck.

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Jonathan says...

A list of recently applied codes is displayed next to text data and memos. To apply one of those codes, simply select some text and click on the code.

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