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Is this a brexit reference?


:(


OP's comment may have been harsh, but it's accurate, and you should take it as constructive - you may have a really cool and useful product here, but no one knows about it at first glance. Make your landing page a bit more transparent as to the app's purpose and functionality, and you'll get more positive interest. Don't be sad!


Simple fix: at least place your iTunes description:

"Cloak scrapes Instagram and Foursquare to let you know where all your friends, "friends," and nonfriends are at all times so you never have to run into that special someone. Think of it as the antisocial network."


No judgement on the product itself; I actually find the concept interesting, but I feel that linking directly to the itunes page itself would be more effective.


(To be fair, you did start your comment pretty harshly: I doubt this is the worst product site you've ever seen.)


I can't think of a specific one that comes to mind, but I guess anything fresh in memory will be more likely to tend towards an absolute. As it is, I've revised my comment a few times to be more fair, and have now changed that line.


It's the worst one I've seen. A blank page would be only slightly less informative.


Yep


Just launched!


It scrapes Instagram and foursquare, giving you a map view of all the people. Then you can set special alerts.


Seriously, please put at least these two sentences on your website.


And seriously, make it so I can see more than just your enormous tagline on mobile. I have a 1080p screen; that oughta be plenty. But literally everything I know about this app was learned from reading derisive comments in this thread.


1. type in the large box what you want to block. The box says, "What do you want to block?"

2. We're rolling out that feature soon.


Thanks for number 1. I read that box several times over and just assumed it was a header. I never saw the cursor blinking until you told me I could type there.


hmmm. Maybe I got my links screwed up. I'll fix that. Anyway, here's another one: https://twitter.com/CLAYMOORE/status/306965801494257664


We currently allow you to add any keywords you want. We'd like to eventually allow rather to communicate with things like tweetbot, so tweetbot can just pull from what you hate, etc.


I think what he's suggesting is that a topic-based filtering system would be more ideal than a key work based one. I don't want to have to spell out "block yankee's, tigers, indians, pirates, and giants". I just want to say "block all baseball", or "block all sports", and have the system know that posts about the yankee's, tigeers, indians, pirates, or giants are inclusive in these categories.


Replace breaking bad spoilers with low winter sun. AMC would eat that up.


Yes, context driven adverts. Not sure how much that's worth, but it's worth pitching to someone like Fox Sports or AMC.


Yeah. Rather is based off this, which we made EVEN before the 17 year old awesome spoiler chick. http://ilovechrisbaker.com/unbaby-me/


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