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You should really take the time to polish this first. That incorrectly scaled screenshot on the first page was enough for me to dismiss this.


He says on the landing page that it is

> Latest version: 0.5

which implies that there are quite a few things left for him to do before he considers the first version complete.

He probably felt that the marketing page was good enough for a 0.5 product. I personally think it is good enough.


He still hasn't fixed the squished screenshot's obviously wrong aspect ratio, at least as of the time I am writing this.

Screenshots with incorrect aspect ratios are a huge pet peeve for me and while this may not be entirely rational, it is one of the big things I find myself judging someone's overall competency on when they screw it up and they are doing design-focused work. I'd rather have the whole page be written in Comic Sans but have the screenshot in the right aspect ratio because at least that's a choice rather than just shoddy work.

Of course, YMMV.


He's received some useful feedback in the comments here. That's the whole agile/lean idea: get user feedback early rather than spending a ton of time polishing it in isolation.


The agile/lean idea is not to have your users bug test your code! It's a technique for gathering feedback early and often in order to make sure that the requirements are sufficiently addressed. What you are describing is a shoddy work discipline which no self-respecting developer would even think of associating his name with.

More appropriately, one of the central pillars of agile is to be in a releasable state at the end of every sprint.


I'm replying to a comment about the framework needing more "polish." It isn't like he's releasing a version to the general public that crashes your browser.

If you look at the feedback, it's mostly stuff like fonts, spacing, etc. I think it's quite acceptable for a developer to get user feedback about the interface on v0.5 of free software.


also I find it ironic that it doesn't work well on Windows Phone




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