Yes.
How i tried to solve it: you have a shopping list where you can add things on the fly.
These things will need to be categorized (food, household supplies etc) at a later date, which is when the review is due for the "Uncategorized" category.
Generally, i tend to buy the same things, so the "big" data entry job happens only once.
May I suggest somebody out of your company reviews the website. It is not clear to me what you do, what the apps do and so on. The copy is also kind of abstract "we make the world a better place" type of copy. From your comment I understand you do good work and would be a shame for people new to your products to struggle understanding what are you doing.
I don't think the previous comment was trying to be snarky - I can see where they're coming from.
Take my feedback with a grain of salt, as I am entirely not the target audience, but...
"Stay Connected, Always" - weird way to put it, given it's for offline situations. At this stage it sounds like it could be a 4G or portable wifi solution?
"Use our apps for offline content or the Kiwix Hotspot for reliable access." - so it's probably a desktop or mobile app, maybe a web app. What is Kiwix Hotspot, another app? Unclear there is a hardware at this point, or any on the home page unless I watch the video that hints at it.
The summary in the footer was a lot clearer to me: "Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access"
Again, not trying to complain for the sake of it, I think this is a cool project helping under-served communities, but if people can't easily understand what you do, they may not dig deeper.
If I can't tell what is being offered without much thinking or digging, the home page isn't doing as much as it could be.
Perhaps it is ticking the boxes for your target audience if you have done some testing. Great! If not, some quick user testing could help optimise the messaging to make sure what you offer is landing.
Very valid points. I’m volunteering for Kiwix and can say that they’re aware of the issues with the website. There are plans to renew it and refresh the content/copy, as well as do some user testing.
The core team is small and doing its best to prioritise and focus on what brings the best value to the users.
I love the product and mission. I'd be happy to volunteer some time to help with the messaging and content. Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or X. - Jason Lankow
it is often true that the people who made a thing are unable to adequately explain it to others, and think their own explanation works just fine. The site isn't self-explanatory.
I think the conclusions and the advice for new programmers is valid. The comparison with the FSD is not very relevant in my opinion but it may be, I just don't see it, as it is a very different kind of skill. I would separate the preference from the "objective truth" and your goals. I think as a technologist you need to keep using AI if not for any other reason then only to keep up with the progress of the technology and have a first hand experience. For projects that I mainly do to learn, I disable autocompletion (Cursor) and type every single character by hand. For some other projects where I am more interested in the end result I am allowing autocompletion and most of the time I read and make sure I understand the generated code.
I wonder how much "well written" is a matter of taste (I thought it wasn't that much). I found "We Are Legion" very poorly written although I loved the premise and really wanted to read it but couldn't go any further then maybe a quarter of it. It also happened to me with Murakami's Kafka On The Shore but I blame that on the translation or some cultural impedance mismatch.
I am really impressed by the podcast it generates and I hope they will introduce other voices/styles because this style can be too much for some people (including me). Not so impressed about the chat experience though. Sometimes it sounds the bot is annoyed at my questions :) Which is a refreshing change from the pathological politeness of ChatGPT.
I am working on an app like that. Far from being complete, at this point is syncing with live data from the banks (well, almost live, a few hours behind). My idea is to have the app do as much as possible for you and just tell you how you're doing: if you're saving enough, if you're spending more than usual on something, show you charts, project future savings at the current rate of saving accounting for interest/capital-gains etc. The app would incorporate sound financial planning principles (prioritise paying dept, invest some of the money, live below your means, etc). I'd love to hear from people who would be interested in this.
I found the original RevenueCat report, which this article is based on, to be more informative. My main complaint is the clumping of 'EMEA', which is economically diverse (I'm not sure why Japan and South Korea were given their own spots in the chart). Still, it was informative.
The big difference is access to fisheye lenses a burst mode that can be run for minutes at a time, and the ability to minimize the amount of camera post processing. In principle, the capture could be done with a smartphone, but the experience of doing so is pretty time consuming right now.
Honest question: I was looking at Wednesday and it said: Cook dinner, Dishes, Trash out. What is the usefulness of tracking this in the app since just entering the kitchen gives you instant status to each of them?
I put some generic defaults, but it works well for tasks that happen only on certain days. Taking trash to the curb once a week, packing bags for kids after school activities, etc. We liked checking things off the list, so we put obvious stuff too, but it's easy to forget infrequent tasks.
Got it. Makes sense. Gonna try this although another thing we were planning to solve was balancing the chores between us to fix the paradox where both of us think they do more than the other. So this would be an iPad fixed on a wall or in a very visible position?
