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> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.

There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time.

> Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user.

That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions.

[0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo


> Nice site.

Thank you!

> He hasn't covered yet some well known ones, or at least I cannot find them using the search field in his site

I've posted about all the software you mention bar toxic but, as you discovered, Tumblr's built-in search doesn't work terribly well. I'll add a Duck Duck Go search box this afternoon. (It's been on my todo list for, er, just over two years now...)


This looks like it'd be useful for any group that relies on donations from members, public collections, &c. - seems odd to limit the number of potential users by pitching exclusively to churches.


# of churches > # of startups

Also have a company geared towards church giving: https://simpledonation.co

I've never understood why people think that targeting churches is "limiting." There are far more churches than there are startups. And there are millions of people in those churches.

Many companies focusing on selling tools/software exclusively to startups. Selling to startups/tech crowd is in vogue, but it's much smaller market than selling to churches.


Agreed. Their almost exclusive emphasis on churches seemed odd, because the service looks like it could be useful for virtually any dot-org.

In fact, I wondered for a few seconds whether the site was accessing my browsing history in some way, because I recently had a church for a client and filled up my history with church-related things as a result. Nope, no tracking besides Google Analytics.


We have recently launched a startup targeting mobile donations for churches (http://thegivingapp.com/).

Our reasons:

1. We know the church market's needs pretty well.

2. It is a niche market that we feel is underserved.

3. Our product is an MVP. If it works for churches, we feel our assumption is validated and it will work for other non-profits as well.


I guess the idea behind this is that it's way easier to attack a vertical niche than trying to go horizontal.


Hazel can do all of those things except add stuff to iTunes without opening the application (unless you count moving files to the Add to iTunes directory).

http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php


"Find people around you app - Nobody wants to find people around them and meet them. Trust me"

Install Grindr on your phone and you'll find that a huge number of people are very interested indeed in finding and meeting people around them.


A 1959 Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite.

Not entirely practical in the British winter, admittedly. And the lack of seat belts tends to worry passengers. But I always have an enormous grin on my face while driving, and it's absurdly cheap to run.


I should add some stats: 948cc, 43hp, top speed (in theory) 80 MPH, 0-60 in 25 seconds. Impressive!


1Password handles this type of login form without flinching, which suggests LastPass could too.

As others have said, filing a bug with LastPass would seem a better option than trying to persuade the entire web to ditch a popular sign-in method.


Most of these types, anyway. 1Password doesn't work with CNET's pop-up login form.


It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?


Very wide text columns are not very pleasant to read.

relevant: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...


It might just be the size of your image, do you have a url I can check out?


This looks great - I've been putting off making changes to a couple of themes for ages because of the head-deskyness (the constant cutting and pasting is especially irritating).


The missing photo COLON a journalist in a phone box COMMA reading to a copy taker.


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