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Depends on what you are coding. Sometimes when I'm coding for fun I don't want to think.
Remember when Yahoo, with its tree structure of topics/directories, was the market leader (for "finding stuff")? Remember when an upstart Google came on the scene with unrestricted, algorithmically selected results?

It wouldn't be the first time Google's taken down a "walled garden" (being a bit unfair to Yahoo's state -- and attitude -- then, for the sake of the analogy).

However, it will depend upon whether Android evokes their serious, long term commitment. And someone will have to provide a better consumer support environment than either Google or the wireless carriers have provided up to this point, and a more open wireless marketplace than the carriers (I'm looking particularly at you, Verizon) have provided.
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Thats actually pretty cool. I was wondering if something like this existed...i just planted a garden, and cannot stop thinking about how its like building a website (or vice versa).

Feedback: I would like to pick my own seeds though, rather than you telling me what i should plant. I signed up.
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Great Idea!

- Future Customer of the "small garden" package
Many Chinese forums are abuzz with complaints about the censorship. Many of these postings get removed or partially censored, but there are millions of people online complaining. This is certainly protest and anyone on the web in China can see it.

Although I'm not sure who would bother to do so...you can go to a government office and file a complaint without fear of being whisked off to a secret prison. Its if you're becoming a successful organizer of activists that you may end up in trouble.
Depends on why it was blocked.

Generally speaking if it's because of a local competitor (eg youku or renren (vs youtube or facebook)) I would not hold my breath.
It's a really awkward problem. I've worked with both the SFPD and Oakland PD (on IT stuff) and known some senior officers and trainers. One observed to me that the psychological profile of police officers is very similar to that of gang members. Ironically, the same officer got into a minor scrape with the motor pool for seizing the engine of a police cruiser after taking me on a high-speed joyride at 3am...

There's no easy answer. It's depressing to hear adult police officers behaving like high-schoolers in the locker room, talking smack about the public and so forth; then again it's not so different from hackers having a laugh at userland's expense. Policing in many places is a scary and dangerous job, and good officers are frequently insulted or blamed for the actions of some others in the same uniform.

I got a first hand taste of this by accident a few years ago. I was working on a film which was being shot in a recently decommissioned jail in Oakland, and one of the actors in a small part became unavailable. I had approximately the right look and was asked to fill in for the part in between my tech duties, so I spent the day in a police costume - movie uniforms are deliberately incorrect to avoid impersonation, but not so much that it's obvious. So between setups I was out on the street a few times to smoke or whatever, and boy did I get an earful from passers-by - and from the opposite folk you'd expect, if you went by stereotypes. A few people wanted to enter the jail to visit friends or relatives who had been arrested, and I would tell them the jail had been shut down and which number to call at City Hall for information. One irate person expressed the hope that someone would drive by and shut me down too. I stayed inside after that one.
I always wanted to plant something, but I never get around to it. Even now I am book marking your site. I guess my lazy ass is going to be the greatest threat to your business. How are you going to effectively combat my/user laziness. How are you going to get the user excited enough - feel this need enough? These are the questions you have to ask yourself going forward.
That's great! I can't believe what a good idea that is.
If you could extend this to Australia, I'd sign up in a heartbeat
I've long been suspecting that there is something weird going on at reddit. Frequently we'll post something and see it get nuked. Then a few days later one of a few familiar names posts it and suddenly it does very well, usually with a pass through another blog as opposed to a direct link.

I wonder if that entire system is silently rigged to control traffic.
Quartz composer?

Quartz composer is freaking awesome. I do a lot of video stuff as a hobby and always start out in QC before I move it to pure cocoa.

If you ever get really bored, try hooking up TouchOSC with QC using the OSC patches.
Very nice, Erik!

I put in an NYC zip code, so a "Small garden" won't work for me. Patio/rooftop would. Maybe something that accounts for urban/suburban/rural?

In fact, urban gardening is a nice niche and people here like having things packaged and served up for them. Might be an opportunity. :)
I want to create a presentation using Powerpoint or Keynote.

I then want to zip it up and mail it to someone.

Ok, we can skip the zipping step and assume that your mail client has a provision for compressing attachments before sending - where does the mail client pick up your presentation slides from?

You have to solve this problem by keeping an expandable list of libraries.
I suppose that's not a bad idea actually.
Awesome idea, and a great MVP at that, congrats!

I don't live in the US and I don't have any place for gardening right now, but other than that, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
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There's nothing immoral about sex (for any sane definition of morality). You sound rather angry, and like you have some deep seated hangup about your own sexuality. I'd really suggest looking into seeing a professional therapist.
Lovely design. Extend this to Canada and you have my usage.
Congratulations on completing and launching--the site looks great and it's a cool idea.

A totally non-snarky recommendation: require the zip code! I got your "Oops" page with your phone number on it. ;)
The only thing that article convinced me of was that Flash is not a good solution for playing streaming video, because it has other priorities and must make concessions to those. But isn't that what the anti-flash crowd has been saying all along? Other video players may have an easier time providing good performance, but they still can get better performance. If Adobe is happy solving different problems they should accept that their customers who have a problem Adobe doesn't solve will be looking towards other solutions.

There's also the sticky issue of vast performance differences between windows and OS X/linux on the same hardware, but even if we accept your thesis that this isn't really Adobe's fault, it doesn't excuse the poor performance.
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I haven't watched the talk yet, but it's quite possible that having more sysadmins is what allows them to use 40 servers. One guy might have needed 80 servers to accomplish the same work because he's too busy to optimize anything. :)
Cool. The logo needs some work.
You do realize those aren't the only two choices right? Sometimes (even in a monogamous relationship) it's just a fun, pleasurable, aerobic activity.
Definitely a clean and nice looking entry website. I agree with many others, don't overdo it. Feedback link at landing page is important & missing. Hear good things about uservoice, but have not used it, just an example.
Good luck with your endeavor.
Cloud computing seems really hot right now--maybe they take the money while it's there.
I like the concept a lot!

The "how it works" boxes on the first page need to give me more. I kept clicking on them.

I liked the plans list. I want the entire box to be a click target, and give me a mouse-over subtle color change. I also want pictures there.

The checkout page is very weak. A little javascript to count down how many vegetables I have left and gray things out when I don't have any options would be nice. The current plan upgrade link was sloppy-feeling. I also don't like "Oops! We need a little more info. Could you fix the following things?" ..it made me feel like I screwed up, when I think I followed the obvious path through the application. I'd be tempted to split out the joy of choosing what plants I'm going to get from actually paying for things. Also consider making the username the same as the email address, less to remember.

Come to think of it, after I choose a plan, a page where I romped through (conceptually) a bunch of awesome-looking fruits and veggies, dreaming about my awesome garden, with a form down at the bottom that says "where do you want us to send your tasty, tasty carrots, beets, and celery?". Then the address capture is about where my goodies are going, not paying...

This website is a great idea. I wish I had space to plant things, I'd give you a shot.
Best quote:

"Mum and her partner David sent this rug from USA as a thanks for talking them through formatting their laptop – that was fun over the phone!!!!!"

Emphasis added.
Not having read all the other comments, so this has probably been mentioned: the subscription page has too much text. Apart from the size difference I don't immediately see what distinguishes products.

Good luck!
OT but yay for dropbox using bbPress.
Let me know if you ever need help with it.
Facebook only displays a url in facebook's convenient box where images should show up (the thing, where, if you add a URL to your status, it parses the page for the first image, and includes). I'm assuming there aren't any images small enough, or something...to which I'd suggest you cut out the "sprout Robot Beta" in the top left, and let it be its own image...seamless enough on the website, but adding an image to facebook...which could help a great deal.
Just for completeness' sake, there is also http://likebutton.me

I'm not sure which has more traffic, but likebutton.me has been shared on FB about 20x more.
No that is not what I am implying, although it is a valid fault with nearly all of the software we run on personal computers, not just Flash.
Firstly, congrats!

Secondly...I love the design. Who did it for you? Alexandria Neonakis?

Thirdly, I too looked for a pricing plan page - to figure out how you were going to make money. When I entered a zip code, then I discovered the pricing page. It looks too wordy. Try to find a more concise way to display that same information. It kinda looks a BIT confusing, maybe it is psychological because the columns for each of the plans are not the same height. I don't understand how the height for each of the columns is decided because the $19.99 & $69.99 columns are the same, the free plan is shortest and the recommended plan is the longest. So something about that display is a bit off-putting/confusing.

Also, have I told you I really love the artwork of the people planting. Love it! As a result of that artwork being so nice, the pricing page feels so bland. The copy is just black text on white columns with an awesome background. Maybe you can try using a little whitespace, and then adding a few other design elements to the columns.

Maybe I am just nit-picking, but the headings for the columns have the word garden, except for the email one...consistency is lacking. I would add a small graphic for each of the gardens, each one getting more 'lush' as the plan increases in cost. Then change the name of the 'email only' to something more inline with the theme. Perhaps 'pot of dirt' or something like that.

Good job on launching though!

Also, make the logo a hotlink to home on all pages.
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I really don't agree with this. Maybe we were able to fix simple electronics. Now, you really have to know what you are doing to mess with an iPhone (and willing to void the warranty). I don't see anything bad with the trend. Most people wouldn't have "made" anything before, and they won't now. There are just more users in general.
The big ones all do. It's just not necessarily public information.
That does happen to me. F# uses = for equality and <- for assignment, and I end up doing the same in C#. Fortunately in C#, only boolean expressions can be used in predicates so it hasn't caused me any more than a compilation error yet.
VMWare and Parallels do very different things than Flash does. My (uninformed) guess would be that it has to do with the security sandbox. The kinds of things you would run on VMWare (installable applications) is very different than what you typically run in Flash (whatever random dreck you happened to stumble into on the internet :P).
Could be that they have it internally. That was the case for my university.

But I agree, very useful for press/users/internal.
Perhaps all the news about it is being filtered.
As an atheist, I have to wish you good luck instead :)

Great idea! Mrs Browl has a green thumb and will love this. It might be helpful to take account of companion plants which can often improve the health of a garden when planted together(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants). Agree with some other users that it might be a good idea to expose more of the options before soliciting a signup, but I understand it's early days. Smart market targeting and business model, with great long-term potential.

Once you get the website running smoothly and look to other directions, a mobile app that lets people swap horticulture tips and pictures of their garden's progress would bring you a very sticky community, as well as further sales opportunities ('Oh noes, I haz aphid infestation - need help w/organic pest sprays?').
There's also different metrics on what constitutes a net-win, that may come out differently for different kinds of traffic sources. For example, is the primary reason you want traffic (a) some sort of influence; or (b) ad revenue; or (c) signups for a service?
I liked the Reddit alien in the logo :)
Yea, there's a Facebook page but I haven't started promoting it yet: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SproutRobot/122403899553

So much social media, so little time. :) The like button is a great idea too, I'll add it to the list.
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I get: "Ooops. Something went wrong. The right people have been notified of the details, and we'll do our best to fix the issue right away." after signing up and if I try to sign in.

My username is the same as here so check it out if you have a chance.

NOTE: I'm just asking for help why am I being voted down?
No worries, thanks for the apologies. In hindsight it was snarkier than i intended
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Totally like this idea ... very clever, and I've never seen anything like it before.

Concur with some previous comments that price page needs attention. Sounds cliche, but go back and look at some of the older 37signals.com/svn posts on making purchase process easy/intuitive/good design.

Also, can confirm that page is dorked somewhat in IE8 ... pretty sure it's not the look that you were after! Let me know if you need a screen cap / don't have IE to take a look.

Nice job! You're hard work has paid off, but it AIN'T OVER. Keep the press.
We have an entrepreneur focused MBA school here in Austin called Acton MBA (http://www.actonmba.org/). I almost went there, but decided to go to the University of Texas for my MBA instead. I learned entrepreneurship from several killer professors: Rob Adams and John Doggett. I am an entrepreneur and always will be, and I learned a tremendous amount from my MBA. It wasn't anywhere near worthless. In fact, I think it was the opposite. I feel that I can do any job in the realm of business or technology in big or small companies. Just like an undergrad degree, an MBA provides options. If you know you want to be a programmer and have the discipline to read all the programming books on your own, then you don't need that undergrad CS degree. Same with MBA.
I know what you're saying, but I disagree. Modern english is literally littered with words that originally meant entirely different things than we currently use them for. Remember 'booting up' your computer? It comes from bootstrapping, which comes from the literal straps on boots, which you put on feet. But I doubt you were thinking about feet when your computer was booting up. If Duck Duck Go becomes successful, it is not hard for me to imagine a scenario where I could say Duck Duck Go without thinking of ducks.
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I have no idea if it works or not, but I want to point out two things. 1: It seems that this is a correlation study rather than a causality study. 2: Your weight can fluctuate on a day to day basis, especially depending on what you've eaten recently, how much water you've drank, the time of day, whether you've gone to the bathroom, etc. The overall trend over a larger period of time is what's important. Still, this 2nd argument may be irrelevant if the point is just to keep you motivated rather than to track your weight.
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Bring on the Internationalization (even if just of the planting calendar)
Until I went in, I had imagined You-Do-It as like a make-your-own pottery type of place, except with instructors and kits showing you how to make radios and toasters instead of pottery. This idea was very exciting to me...
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I'd like to point out that it wasn't Facebook, but "the Chinese Facebook." Facebook is behind the great firewall; there's a local clone.
Normally I would condemn such irresponsible shenanigans. But in this case, they may have inadvertently served a higher purpose :)
Chinese government don't give a fuck to innovation. They just want profit. If innovation harms the stabilization, they just drop it.
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This definitely works for me. I weigh myself each morning and night. I frequently weigh myself after drinking x glasses of water or eating a meal. Sometimes I'll even weigh myself hourly to learn how quickly I'm burning energy. After a few years, I've gotten a really good idea of what (and how much) I should be eating to lose or maintain my weight.
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Originally they were trying to do as Curtis mentioned. Files were to match documents, photos etc that might go in a file folder in a file cabinet. I guess the file cabinet was the computer.

Categories would work. But they are abstract and folders/files mapped to physical objects that were part of offices at the time. Recycle Bin/Trash, same thing, trying to map to real-world at the time.

I think the death of files is overrated though. I mean even on the touch os I can go to search and search for... files. No file browser like Finder or Windows Explorer work when you have a killer Spotlight like search.
...or followed as closely as it should be.
Really? There isn't a link to http://www.octopart.com here?

Goddammit folks! Go find your parts on Octopart and help a YC company out.
> In other words, I'm just emphasizing the plan that makes me money. :)

If you truly want to make money, emphasize the plan that makes me happy enough to share your site with everyone I meet.
Alexandria did the illustration, and I did the rest of the design. I suck at color, so it was nice to be able to work off her brilliance!

Thanks for the feedback about the plans page... It's getting an upgrade next week probably, so I'll hold on to your comments.
Neat! How do you handle shipping right now?
Android OS is run on multiple phone while Iphone is just one phone, not a great comparison.
BGSU does -> http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/gsm/

I have to use it all the time.
Yes, but if you keep track of it, you learn how much weight a glass of water adds, for example, and you can calibrate for that. I'd say you learn more about how to control your weight in the long run if you keep track of these daily fluctuations.
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Will it scale ?
I have worked for a university and several organizations that have had basic guidelines like this. It's much more important in large organizations when many small departments or individuals are creating branded things.

One sees this basic type of thing in press kits and even (er, kinda) "link to us" or "powered by" graphical widgets, but the focus on consistent color and typography are things I think could stand to get some more attention. This type of reference is especially helpful for non-designers who aren't immediately inclined to think about consistency and branding.
Exactly. The sort of writers who are excited by thirty clicks are probably interested in influence. For them, measuring RSS subscriptions, comments, or inbound links is better.
This business seems like a money maker in a unique niche--if you work it. I think you should try promoting it in forums dedicated to organic living by manually linking it in "hot threads" in addition to buying skyscrapers.

If it were my site, to get some extra money in the door right now I would try upselling a 3 year package for the price of 2 on a special page just before the customer hits the shopping cart. Plus add a little extra something to the deal (like a special info pdf) to increase the chance the customer will pay double.

Also, what about letting the customer choose herbs and some favorite fruits.

Another thing that might help to "build" your business out of the bootstrap phase would be an 800 phone number with regular business hours so customers can call with questions about planting or ask why their tomatoes are dying on the vine. It might help to build repeat orders and add some gravitas to the business vs. just being a website with no track history.

NOTE: Watch your traffic, the site timed me out due to too much traffic (5/10/2010 aprox. 9:15pm Austin Time). I'm sure traffic is light now, but if you get a lot of hits at once you don't want to turn potential customers away by timing them out. It is probably due to too many concurrent server connections not bandwidth.
If only Microsoft would provide a version of IE8 that would run on Ubuntu, I could test it... :)

That's no excuse though. I'm definitely going to find an internet cafe and do some more testing. Thanks for the reminder.
I dunno bout you, but I actually live in New York City and although the police can be heavy handed at times, ok... a lot of the time, I can assure you that new york is a lot safer than when I was growing up in Queens in the 80's and 90's. I specifically recall leaving for university in the fall of '96 and returning summer of '98 to a completely different atmosphere. And for that I tip my hat to Giuliani.
Agree those Facebook wall posts are worth a ton of traffic. We did a microsite for a client and they promoted it with a "splash" page on their main site 15k views a day. Well the 100 or so Facebook wall posts a day sent more traffic, almost double. Don't wait to long to get that in there!
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