Thanks for your feedback. I will be adding more details about the difference between free and pro over the next week or so. I am hoping that I can get engineers to use splinch for their configuration management for free and then find a reason why it is essential for them to upgrade to a Pro - ie more devices or multiple environments (production, DR, etc).
You're right, the pricing is based entirely on my gut feel, and unfortunately my guts are wildly oscillating between "people pay hundreds of grand for one of the existing solutions" and "if I price it too high no one will buy it."
I was planning on waiting until I had some screenshots and maybe a screencast available before putting too much effort into the sales side of the site but I'm waiting for a few of the features to be a bit smoother around the edges before I do that.
Thanks for your feedback, I'll give a few network operations managers I know a call and see what the think about pricing.
All the text shadows or specific ones? I used it only in places where I thought that it made the text _easier_ to read because it helps increase contrast. I'm probably mistaken :)
I'm really surprised by people telling me to make the site fixed-width, all the work I have done with accessibility, etc has taught me to make it scale nicely and avoid using absolute units wherever possible. I'll modify it to include a fixed width on my dev environment and take a look.
Sociable is the name of my company, Splinch is the product. I note that basecamphq.com has a great big 37 signals at the bottom of the page too, but I take your point and will reduce the size and add text explaining what it is.
I am shocked and amazed to see one of my projects posted to HN by someone other than myself. Apparently someone else cares enough about what I'm doing to tell their mates about it. Thanks.
I guess that makes sense, I would be pretty annoyed if Facebook sent me a notification every time they roll out some random new feature.
I like the idea of bots, but I don't see a lot of consumer grade users using it. Seems more like a toy for the nerds amongst us, although I am sorely tempted to whip up an Eliza bot for notifo. That said, I also wanted to modify a z-code interpreter to allow people to play infocom games over twitter.
Nice work guys. I'm really impressed with the App updates today and the website update. One thing I was surprised by was that you don't have an option for "Allow Notifo to send me information about service updates and new features" and then have this announcement out to peoples devices.
The other thing is that if you're going to use Paul's blog for announcements then it would really pay to have a mobile friendly version of the blog given your target market.
there are ~230k words. once it runs out will start randomly hyphenating two words togther. in the mean time I'm looking at using wordnik's API for word selection - apparently they have ~4M.
I have experienced this very thing with a SunOS box at the remote end of a satellite link. It was in the US and we were in NZ. Let's just say that you can do a lot with bash and a single root shell.
I contributed a lot of code to Caudium back in the early 00's even going to the Pike/Caudium conference in Paderborn, Germany in 2003 (which is quite an expensive proposition for someone from New Zealand).
My biggest open source project at the moment is a Pike library which reads in packets from libpcap and builds a table of active TCP and UDP flows, including all the metadata about the flows (and optionally the payload) with various callbacks so that you can easily build analysis, diagnostic, accounting or logging applications.
My most beloved hobby is radio controlled helicopters. I would love to do something involving autonomous aircraft. Control systems and navigation. Should have gone to school, I guess.