Review My App: Things I Did(things.vikinghammer.com)
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Review My App: Things I Did
http://things.vikinghammer.com/did/
7 comments
I think this is a good idea, and I actually use a similar in-house app regularly.
If you're working on a lot of little things, or handling maintenance on a large project, it can be difficult to keep track of all the things you actually did in a week, especially since a lot of them probably weren't planned. A simple work log can help quite a bit.
It's also fun to plot your log entries on a timeline, to see a visual representation of how busy you were in any particular period of time.
That said, being able to try it out without signing up, or even just watch a screencast of you using it would really help evaluate it.
If you're working on a lot of little things, or handling maintenance on a large project, it can be difficult to keep track of all the things you actually did in a week, especially since a lot of them probably weren't planned. A simple work log can help quite a bit.
It's also fun to plot your log entries on a timeline, to see a visual representation of how busy you were in any particular period of time.
That said, being able to try it out without signing up, or even just watch a screencast of you using it would really help evaluate it.
I think you forgot to include a user interface.
yeah, it seems kind pointless. I get the idea of wanting to be able to remember what you did and feel accomplished and reflect on where you could have done more work, but it really doesn't do much.
Also, if people are actually going to use the service, you at least need to make it very easy to tell it what things they did. They may not be near a computer or want to fire up a browser, log in, etc. to tell you what they did.
Instead, you need them to be able to tell you via SMS, iphone app, IM, and any other text communication system they want.
Integrating with things that already track things they did, like their github commits, would be cool too.
You either need to scrap this or make it a lot better
Also, if people are actually going to use the service, you at least need to make it very easy to tell it what things they did. They may not be near a computer or want to fire up a browser, log in, etc. to tell you what they did.
Instead, you need them to be able to tell you via SMS, iphone app, IM, and any other text communication system they want.
Integrating with things that already track things they did, like their github commits, would be cool too.
You either need to scrap this or make it a lot better
Things i didn't do:
1) build an interface
2) spend any time on design
3) include a demo or let people try it without logging in
4) define the problem I am trying to solve/people I'm trying to reach
Let me use it without having to login. If I want to save my list, then allow me to do so through registering.
At least show a screenshot or something to give me an idea what I am signing up for. Otherwise I am not signing up.
You need to create more value. Any good hacker can whip this up in 10 minutes. I can get the same functionality out of gmail...or a pencil and a piece of paper for that matter.