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100% exactly. Cookies are device and moment specific. Whereas a user account can easily save and transport the saved experience/setting anywhere the user wants to access them.


I specifically do not want to have the same experience on multiple devices.

I do not want to have the same experience on my work computer vs my home computer.

I do not want to have the same experience on my home computer vs my personal phone.

I do not want to have the same experience on my personal phone vs my work phone.

I do not want to have the same experience on my work phone vs my work computer.


Firefox (and Chrom{e,ium} AFAIK) can sync up your cookies, among other things.


but if you go this route, you have to share them with a third party (Mozilla or Google)?


Yes, but Firefox's Sync is open source [1], so you should be able to set up a private instance. IDK how easy or hard it is though.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Sync


Thanks for the suggestion. That wiki page brought me to https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run... which I intend to try out. I want to migrate my a Firefox profile from Windows to Linux and synching seems to be the easiest way to transfer bookmarks and saved passwords.


Ha! Brilliant landing page! And very clever marketing. Good job.


Very cool! I just ran my site through it http://beta.brandkoop.com/instantProfiler/result/M4muX7r8Atm...

I do wish it gave me some prompts to do something actionable. Like, "Hey, looks like you could be a little more sophisticated. Why not try..." Or ways to change the balance of my "Website Values" if I want or need to. Your site gives interesting insight nonetheless — I like it.


Definitely agree - would be nice to see why some things score highly.

http://beta.brandkoop.com/instantProfiler/result/2nawF7XDTLu...

Apparently I'm very sincere - but I was kind of hoping for a bit more competence.


stay tuned. Step 1-give you the profile (done) Step 2-give you the tools to analyze the results and adjust your brand personality (coming soon). BTW sign up for the Full Profiler to get much more info and analysis, plus add your Twitter account to get analyzed. It's free, too!


Looks great - might be good to support multiple twitter accounts, I have my own @MrBananas along with the one for the website @noduleio.


thanks for the positivity! yep, the next step for us is a Brand Blueprint service where we will make recommendations like you mentioned. awesome for us to get such insightful and honest feedback!


I really like the concept. I know there are other sites that do it too, but I like the simplicity of your site. One comment, the white text can be hard to read with the background image you're using — I like it as a textural element, but maybe it doesn't need to underlay the story.


Ah, I hadn't seen another site similar to this, but I'm not surprised they exist. Thanks for the feedback, that's definitely the number one piece of criticism I keep hearing.


It's a great idea and I realize this is probably your first pass at it. The interface, after you get a results set, is a bit challenging to use — I would definitely use a tool like this a lot if you develop a kick-ass UI around it too!


Thanks! What aspects did you find to be challenging? (I realize there are many problems, just trying to isolate the biggest issues)


Ha! At first I thought it was going to be a job site...took a sec to figure out that you meant "a place to sit your butt down with your laptop and work." :-)


Nice work! Thought, for me, it would probably just make me anxious as I watch the minutes and seconds tick away...sort of like watching the clock in school, the more you look at it the slower time seems to go and the more distracted by time you become. That's just me — I'm sure this will be a good motivator for others.


The funny thing is, the clock has a way of suddenly going a lot faster when it goes down to an hour left and you still have a lot of work to get done!


Seems like it would be better as a free app and you make money if I buy the t-shirt (or whatever) through the app. Not sure many be willing to plunk down .99cents when there are so many other, great free weather apps. Neat concept none the less.


Thanks! We thought $0.99 was pretty cheap for a weather app, but who knows, maybe later we'll make it free


Too funny. I work with a lot of clients who get hung up on finding the perfect name before they can get going on their project. My advice is to come up with a "working name" you can live with — don't over think it, you can always change it later. Names you think are stupid at first often mature in your mind as you're working on the product...you'd be surprised how often a working name grows on a client and becomes the name of the product.


Very nice start! Dope logo.

Good idea to go MVP and get it out in the world and get some learning going. Of course the down side to MVCs is the user doesn't know it's MVC — some comments might reflect that ;)

Looking forward to seeing where you take this IRC-esq revival!


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