Thank you for creating this. I have been thinking of making one for years because all the Arabic alphabet apps in the app store are really bad/low quality. Now I have no reason to do that :) I let my 4 year old take play with it and here is some feedback from her and from me observing her use it:
* The buttons on the start screen are too close. My daughter kept touching the wrong button and ending up in the browser in your cafe press store
* The cafe press store. I hope you are planning on integrating it in your app. It really disrupts the experience when you leave the app and open the browser
* When you start reviewing the alphabet, my daughter had a hard time with the arrows. Her instinct was to swipe, which didn't work
* The menu in the top right hand corner is also easy to touch by mistake and end up interrupting the experience
Hope this feedback is helpful to you and congratulation on an excellent app!
This publicity is good publicity. Anyone who doesn't want to work with him had never heard of him before and will soon forget him. Anyone who might want to work with him, hadn't heard of him before.
ok, good point. However, based on my experience with HN, I bet the second segment of people you describe are under represented here. I generally see swagger discouraged around here so a strategy like this is not effective, even if it made the frontpage.
He's a no-name designer (not to be too disparaging) in a sea of no-name designers. A tiny percentage of a large (HN) crowd is still going to be a bigger audience for him than he might have got with a plain site.
I have more experience and a broader portfolio, but do you think anyone would have reason to submit my site to HN? Nup.
If the large percentage rubbed the wrong way by this were likely to rain his house with stones, he'd have a problem, but they won't. They'll move on to the next topic and forget him pretty quickly.
On top of that, he will get a more receptive crowd as this moves around Twitter and the like too.
I'd guess that big business or even medium enterprises won't touch him, but anyone needing a freelancer or with a start-up might. Those two groups would be reasonably well represented here.
Indeed, all my tweeps from Syria have gone silent. Phone lines seem to be down too. Calling Syria gives me "all circuits are busy" message. This is not a good sign.
Anti-Semitism is a term that, in the western culture, is used to mean anti-jewish. When you treat it literally, you are ignoring a long and established history associated with it. See this for much more articulate explanation than mine:
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anti-Semitism is not the optimal term for anti-Jewish sentiment, among other things because there are other Semites than Jews, but it is the one we have, and comes with a long history and a well-established meaning. Rather than critiquing the term or coining a neologism to substitute for it, speakers of English should simply understand the term's history and commonly accepted definition and use it accordingly.
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* By sending from Safari to Paprika - do you mean Mobile Safari, or from a desktop browser? I think a bookmarklet might work well for that....will have to think about it.
* The address bar URL thing is a bug that will be fixed in the next release.
* Good call on the Safari bookmarks, we'll consider that.
* We are definitely planning on doing some sort of cloud based recipe backup/sync/sharing.
