Hacker News | My start-up, wyDay (comments wanted)

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3 points by wyday 685 days ago | comments

I've been working on my start-up, wyDay ( http://wyday.com/ ), for the last 4 years. My main product is wyUpdate, a partially open source partially for-profit updater program. The post I put up this morning explains it best ( http://wyday.com/blog/2008/open-source-wyupdate-keep-your-users-up-to-date/ ).

The 4 years I've been working on the start-up hasn't been continuous - I've been simultaneously earning my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. That's my excuse for ignoring the Paul Graham credo: "release early, release often."

What do you guys think? Namely, what do you think about me releasing a Windows program in the era where Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing are the buzzwords of choice?

What do you hate?

1 point by danielh 685 days ago | link

Having a quick glance at the website, I found it hard to grasp what wyUpdate is really about.

"wyUpdate Express is the free limited version of wyUpdate"

"wyUpdate Professional includes all the features of wyUpdate Express, plus the license to use the wyUpdate Professional Designer commercially"

Yeah, but what is wyUpdate about? Maybe you should include a 2-sentence explanation at the top, along with a more descriptive tagline.

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1 point by wyday 684 days ago | link

I explained it in the second paragraph:

"If you’ve never used wyUpdate, here’s a quick intro: wyUpdate comes in two parts. The first part is the wyUpdate Designer to manage your versions and create your updates. The other part is the wyUpdate Client which you include with your application, and it does all the checking and updating of your program."

But you're right. It's not immediately apparent. I have to fix that.

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