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Samantha Quist
Samantha is a self-taught developer, career growth hacker, and startup founder. She was previously on the product management team at Google and led online growth initiatives for social media data startup Gnip. Now she's founder and CEO of Copywriter Central, a startup that helps businesses discover and hire freelance writers.
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I like it! This is a smart idea and there's a real need here -- tracking passwords for websites across the internet is a huge headache. I also like how you're implementing this using Facebook and a master password without saving it to your system, putting my security concerns at ease. Design could use a little polish, but the functionality is there and useful.
dtudury
contestantcool, thanks so much for the feedback!
Nice job! Certainly a real use case and a real need. I like where you're taking this. It would be great to see it applicable to more formats of presentations.
chrisjaure
contestantThanks for the feedback :)
Clever game. I like the use of color to make it more interesting and add a more challenging dimension to the game, very creative. I also like the backstory explaining the story of the game. Nicely done!
Great game! Nice graphics, clear objective, easy to understand yet fun to play. Excellent job.
jkappers
contestantThanks a lot! So gold you enjoyed it!
This actually works well -- I'm loving reading my friends' status updates on your site, it's so much faster to consume the information than on Facebook itself. I wouldn't have guessed that you could outdo the Facebook newsfeed experience so easily -- nice innovation. As you say on your video, I think there's a lot more you can do with this to make it complete. It would be nice if any of the links under the Settings at the top did anything, and the design could probably be built out a bit. But I think you're on to something and I like where you're headed.
3emad
contestantThank you samanth for your great feedback!
The plan is to outdo all typical linear newsfeed with an interesting layout similar to "path" app on the ipad along with popularity algorithm.
I'm excited to hear from you again once it gets completed, and hope it will always be useful to everyone.
Love this game idea -- creative and fun. Love the site design -- old school but nicely rendered. I had some trouble getting the game to work though -- I played for about 2 seconds before I accidentally bumped the back button on my phone browser as I was rowing, and then I couldn't get back to the game no matter what I tried. But I think the concept is great and appreciate your creativity and execution.
Reddit is so fun! And it's a great idea to apply a more useful UI to it, I spent a while browsing your UI and it's nice, I particularly like how the videos play inline rather than having to click offsite to see them. I had a little trouble -- after sorting by rating, I wasn't able to sort by anything else. But good idea and hope to see it developed further!
Nice game! I'm a fan of the Super Mario feel and I found myself playing over and over, trying to get as far as I could with 2 bears. So I guess it must be pretty fun :) I didn't find many bugs so I think you guys did a nice job with completeness, as well. I think the game would have been even more fun if there were some secondary goal like points or coins or something, so that even if I can't complete the goal without 3 bears then I can still compare one of my tries against another. Also it would be nice if I could see chat messages from everyone playing at a given time, not just the players in my screen view (particularly when there are only 1-2 other people playing).
Nice job, TeamSwallow! My favorite things about your site are its utility (how many people in the world would find a web-based website editor to be useful? i'm going with a lot) and its design (you've done a great job of showcasing nice design taste and allowing the user to choose from some slick design options, too). I'm a fan. In terms of completeness, you've certainly built out your feature set to appear very complete! However I had trouble getting some of the features to work, like entering a photo of my own or removing an element I mistakenly added, but I can see this becoming more complete and polished and I'm excited for the possibilities. From a UX perspective, I love how you offer the user a few templates they can edit rather than forcing them to start a page from scratch, as well. Nice job overall!
hugow
contestantThank you very much for the positive and should I say heart-warming review!!!!
I've been working on the editor part of the project (as an open source development based on node) during the last year.
The fundamental idea is that most websites (restaurant websites, artist portfolio, blogs, everything that is not really an app, i.e. 95 percent of the stuff out there) can be designed (and fully realized) by a creative person with zero technical knowledge. This is what we want to achieve.
Programmers shoud develop reusable components
Designers should be able to freely assemble a site using reusable and stylable components. They should have full control on 100% of the visual stuff, be able to change it interactively and have instant visual feedback as they do so. They should be able to deploy on the click of a button.
The role of web 'integrator' (the guy who takes the photoshop and grinds it to text based, designer unfriendly css/html and totally breaks the feedback loop between the designer and the website) should be removed.
We work towards that goal, and use nodejs and all the beautiful things of CommonJS along the way.
Beautiful website! Love your eye for design. Clearly there's a real use case here, as well. And the color-coding by urgency is smart. In terms of completeness, it would be most useful if it could grab content from other sites (like Twitter -- it looks like the posts I'm seeing arent' coming from Twitter, right?) rather than relying on everyone to visit your site, and also the Intro tab seems to be blank. But I'm liking the concept and where you're taking this, and wishing you all the best!