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Jottly: A New, Free "Tweet-Style" Productivity Web App

16 pointsby WritelyDesignedabout 11 years ago

10 comments

landongnabout 11 years ago
Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be something sustainable long term.<p>Looking through the rendered source somewhat confirms this, and puts together a darker picture of sloppy, jQuery riddled javascript flung into whatever context it was needed.<p>I don&#x27;t know how this is much better than asana (which is totally free, and quite performant) or tools like Firetask, Things, or any other myriad GTD tools. It&#x27;s simply slower than those, and that&#x27;s unfortunate.<p>Congrats on shipping something. Please take the time to polish it up as your immediate next step.<p>edit: Yikes. Wordpress isn&#x27;t as secure as you think it is. things like this:<p><a href="https://jottlyapp.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=delete&amp;amp;post=3507&amp;amp;_wpnonce=f700f58989" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jottlyapp.com&#x2F;wp-admin&#x2F;post.php?action=delete&amp;amp;po...</a><p>as a direct action within your application isn&#x27;t such a great idea.
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ea777about 11 years ago
Interesting for sure, but a couple big issues:<p>1. It&#x27;s slow. I&#x27;ve come to expect a full JS front-end app for productivity tools nowadays, page loads feel <i>very</i> laggy.<p>2. They request your password in the email you have to send them to delete your account!!! That&#x27;s the most ridiculous thing I&#x27;ve ever heard.
gragethabout 11 years ago
Just some feedback. I like new shiny things so thought I would check it out. I think you need to take a look at asana (<a href="http://asana.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;asana.com&#x2F;</a>) and decide if you&#x27;re just trying to do the same thing they are doing. Because they are doing it REALLY well. - I think the aesthetics are great, but for me personally there is just too much whitespace. - The time for a jot to save is just too long. - The fact the page refreshes on new jots is very distracting and in today&#x27;s world of Angular&#x2F;Ember&#x2F;Backbone you shouldn&#x27;t be refreshing pages.<p>Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that&#x27;s your direct and already established competition.
hkjerabout 11 years ago
Made something similar years ago for devs. Not nearly as polished though: <a href="http://hkjels.github.io/ntask/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hkjels.github.io&#x2F;ntask&#x2F;</a>
teleclimberabout 11 years ago
Wasn&#x27;t there a site that collected all the apps and SaaS products that were shown being used in a coffee-shop setting on their home page?<p>Too bad I can&#x27;t find it because I really want to submit this.
mkazizabout 11 years ago
This looks like a great idea. The only thing I&#x27;m concerned about it the work it will probably require to organize my &quot;jots&quot;.
xxdesmusabout 11 years ago
Verification emails don&#x27;t seem to be going out.... I can&#x27;t imagine it&#x27;s an issue on Gmail&#x27;s side.
thefoolabout 11 years ago
Thought it was <a href="http://www.jotly.co/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jotly.co&#x2F;</a> at first...
xxdesmusabout 11 years ago
Should get some CloudFlare caching on that site. :) Looks nice though, interested to give it a try.
scottmagdaleinabout 11 years ago
First glance: it&#x27;s really pretty.