Good news is that the app works entirely on your machine locally - no video data ever leaves your computer so hopefully that will alleviate some of your concern. :)
To put it bluntly - I don't know you enough to believe you, but then I am not in your target demographics.
(edit) To elaborate - there are people who care deeply about privacy, and there are those who don't (really) give a damn about it. Former won't touch Flutter with a pole no matter what you say. They won't touch it even if Flutter were open source. I know because I am one of them. Latter group however is substantially larger and it basically includes everyone with a Facebook account. Having built a product that could've been seen as privacy-invasive, I was in a situation similar to yours and the take away was to counter complaints from the former group with a simple "this product is not for you." It saves nerves, time and money.
Great site redesign by the way. Not sure if it'd would help with getting $ customers, but it's certainly un-ordinary.
I wish Flutter would just turn music off when I walked away from the computer and on when I get back. I always forget to turn it back on when I get back, plus it would be nice to not worry about turning it off.
If you ever implement it please let me know. I see the use cases of Flutter, but 99% of the time it is significantly easier to just hit the play/pause button (f8) on my Macbook.
I had to uninstall Flutter because it opened on install and I couldn't find a way to delete it.
I don't have a problem with pausing Spotify because I have play, pause and skip keys on my Mac and I just hate having my webcam on, I know it's not recording or going to the cloud but on the few occasions I tried to put my hand up to pause and play it wasn't fast enough to fit into my workflow.
I see where this can be useful in the entreprise and other areas and as the technology develops it will be important though.
Thanks for the kind feedback. We have changed it so that on Mac it launch on start is optional. You can also turn it off from top menu bar icon if you have older version. If you have really old version, then download the latest as it is much improved in terms of false positives!
We hope you give us a try after we add few more gestures!
We just redesigned our Home Page & launched Windows (7) version of our app to join the mac version. Yes, we are aware that everyone wants to a new gesture. It is being tested right now and will be available soon. In the meantime, please send us your feedback on HP as well as Windows App. Thanks in advance from FlutterTeam.
A lot of people struggle to see the point in this past being a cool trick. Personally i find that when im cleaning the house or washing up(N.B. wet hands) that this
App is fantastic. The wait for more gestures is killing me though.
Looks great! I've got a friend who has a set of speakers which come with a separate "control module" which is touch sensitive. It doesn't pause music, but it does a good job of muting it when you need to cut sound quickly - this seems like a superior alternative due to its low cost and ease of use.
Also, just a heads up that your /about/ page and your /jobs/ page have dead links to http://flutterapp.com/jbos at the top and are missing <title> elements. I can also confirm lukifer's CSS bug occurs on FF13/Linux as well.
One note: there seems to be a CSS bug when scrolling right on a browser window less than 1000px wide (Chrome, Mac).
Also: have you considered aiming marketing and features more at the media center market? Every demo pic is of a laptop, and yet turning down the volume from the couch with no remote seems far more useful.
Have the gesture algorithms changed much at all since the initial HN release? I had to uninstall it as it kept mistaking me touching my face/etc as holding my hand to the camera.
Hi rbn, possibly it's a light. Would you please do us a favor and send us a video of your lighting - that would help us improve? Also, please make sure that your palm is at least 1 feet away so as to completely visible by webcam.
@alttab - thanks for your view point. We meant to say that we will add enough utility overtime. Interestingly enough 80% of our downloads are also non-us so may be it is a wide spread problem. Thx!
I'm not the best guy to value your services as I use bash, vi, and Grep for everything. I understand the love for technology but the amount of time spent building this app seems a little silly considering it is as far from solving world hunger as one could get.
If your laptop is far away enough to need this app, I think it's a reasonable assumption that it's plugged in (or else you could just bring it next to you and use the media buttons or space bar to pause the music).
