I understand how much work goes into app development, but I can't help buy feel $14.99 is a bit steep considering.

I'd much rather just be able to edit a MarkDown nested list via any text editor. Im on a Mac, no need to reinvent anything, why not let the user's decide how they manage their lists.

If it were me, I'd have gone the Dropbox route, and just sync a very simple nested list, and call it a day.

I simply do not understand the hype with this 'new app.' Yeh, Atebits created the awesome Tweetie but then it went downhill fast after its acquisition. Don't get me wrong, I would have done the same there, but the track records speaks for itself, what makes this app any different that he won't sell out again, and support won't be dropped the second a better offer comes in?

What are your thoughts on the rashness of publishing her post, rather than attempting (more than just Twitter) to improve the article. What we could have had is a truly great (and revised) article on the top of HN rather than this troll inducing post and discussion?

Basically; I copy edited this article once she was done so I'm biased. But I do agree the rashness didn't help. HOWEVER! She was planning on writing something like this for many months. In the long run, I think a calmer article would have helped her but I absolutely agree with what she has to say.

I sense a lot of nativity in this post. For starters using GET just means that once one spam user creates a rule for your site, they can spam it until you change the variable names in the query string. Using JS to submit a form, whilst should be fine, but I STILL encounter people without JS, and personally without a JS fallback I think it's just bad coding.

A simple honeypot with some CRSF tokens would reduce spam, if you want to beat spam altogether, then invest some time in a captcha, but expect it to come at the user's expense.

I think the original article touches on some good points, and I can understand the need for Laura to voice her opinion, but the author MUST have wrote the article with good intentions.

Personally, if I were really affected by an article I get in touch with the author, have a skype call and get all the concerns out in the open, and work together to revise the article so that both parties are happy with it. Then if the author didn't want to know etc, THEN I'd write the rebuttal.

I don't want to be harsh here, but Laura could have shared her input privately and together created a exceptional article with valid points and different perspectives, but instead when to route of going public and (potentially) damaging the authors name in the process.

We're all professionals, and can take criticisms, especially if they were voiced in a constructive way as a means to create something better. Laura's article begs the question whether her intentions are destructive, or whether her aim was to build and improve.

I know both the writers very well.

Faruk and I have known each other for 8 years, we tried to start a business together and I have a lot of respect for him.

Laura is my flatmate and best friend.

They tried to talk on Twitter beforehand, and it wasn't going very well (as Twitter does.)

She wanted to write a post on sexism for a very long while now. This was a catalyst to finally get it done. She also wanted it to be public so people got a full view of the opinions.

I, as a man, feel if I don't agree with posts like Faruk's, a lot of people take it as I don't care about women's rights. It can get messy easily.

Her opinions were not destructive in my opinion. She was frustrated that yet another man was telling all us what sexism was and that she felt his intentions weren't necessarily good, but more "holier than thou" and that it didn't help anything.

I have biases, so take it with a grain of salt.

I don't view the low proportion of women in tech as a serious problem (I think it's determined by the typical obsessions of twelve-year-olds). I do view the expectation that they be kinder and less assertive as a problem. It's healthy that she's debating honestly, rather than settling for a compromised version of her points in someone else's work.

"I don't view the low proportion of women in tech as a serious problem (I think it's determined by the typical obsessions of twelve-year-olds)."

Which also has to do with sexism and gender roles in society.

Now that you've hit HN front page, wouldn't it be good to actually have a link to your product in that post? I know there's a link in the header on the desktop version, and an image with the URL midway through, but on the mobile version there's nada.

I love the fact not only is it comic sans, but it's an entire image block, as if Comic Sans wouldn't render properly on everyone's machine, they created an image to make sure everyone enjoys the same Comic Sans experience.

Whilst I did use Feedburner, I jumped ship as soon as I heard they were shutting off the API. The only thing that I used Feedburner was for the subscriber count, but I've now switched the URLs around on my blog and added a little IP based tracker that more or less gives me the count.

I don't know if I just didn't 'get' Feedburner, but the only appeal for me was the subscriber count, was there any other key features that your own RSS feed cant be modified to do?

See other comments regarding email delivery.

I do like the interface, but in Firefox it's quit unresponsive and clunky, but a lot smoother in Safari. Either way, it was still quite difficult to actually find the start and end points I wanted. Not sure if this is something YouTube's end, like not allowing access to that certain point in the video.

I agree with other(s) when I say the quality is quite terrible, but hopefully some tweaks with FFMPEG, or maybe even another route.

I do like the neatness and unobtrusive-ness of the watermark though.

I think over all, it shows a lot of promise, but need to fine tune those UI controls and make it clearer/easier to select a timeframe, and improve the quality of the GIF somewhat too :)

Totally agreeing to the points you mentioned. At first we only had like one timeframe selector, but since videos can be pretty long, we added the zoom selection (the upper one), but it's quite hard to figure out how to handle them correctly. Actually you can use it very precisely if you know how.

I guess the first thing I will do is add an instruction video or a short tutorial to make clear what the controls are there for.

The problem with Firefox is that the videos we are getting from YouTube and Vimeo are MP4. Since Firefox does not support the h264 codec right now, I had to implement a flash fallback which is not responsive at all. I wonder why people still use Firefox, though :P

I'll take some time tomorrow to have a closer look at the gif encoding code of FFmpeg to make it use another color palette. This is quite complicated though, so it might take some time. For now, we have to consider ourselves satisfied with the quality :(

Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate it!