Yep, exactly. And the video took a good minute just to show the first frame. They should really test the website experience under the load or over slow-ish links.
Whoa, I welcome hn traffic! But yeah, it seems to put the site under pressure. Did handle similar traffic from reddit front page just fine though. Checking whether Rackspace is having issues.
First impression: the UI is really neat, I liked it a lot. Kudos to year team, the execution is excellent!
My understanding is, the app automatically selects one of the currencies based on locality. Would it do the same when I travel?
Obviously missing is entering exact values, e.g. the values that appear on long tap might easily be editable - I intuitively expected them to be while playing with the app.
You might also explain in the guide that for going between the price of a BurgerKing burger and combined GDP of the E.U. you shouldn't scroll all the way to billions but use rounded values instead ;) Similarly for other units.
Also missing: since you have length and volume, area would be nice to have.
Edit: another missing feature is jumping to the beginning of a scale somehow with one tap.
Thanks! Glad you like it, and thanks for thorough feedback.
1.Yeah. App lists currencies based on where you are and use timezone to determine location, iPhones usually get that from the cell towers and it's specific enough to determine current country without roaming or using GPS. 2. Might add that in a future version. 3. Quick jump menu (bottom right) might help there. 4. Area can be activated under 'Converted' in iOS settings app. Also looking into adding more categories that makes sense for this interface. 5. Tap on status bar scrolls to top. Thanks again!
Thanks!
It's primarily intended as a quick, at a glance conversion tool, like for shopping abroad or to get a sense of what they mean when foreign units are used in films, books and recipies.
It also has a precision mode to get exact values, though google and other apps are quicker for just that.
I understand that you're on the front of HN and probably seeing a massive spike of activity, however with that in mind, the video doesn't load so I'm unable to see what your app does and why it's a different way of converting.
There needs to be more anything actually, as there seems to be nothing except an image of (an app on an) iphone and a link to download something from the app store.
Convert CURRENCY.
Bit confusing WTF the page was about until the video finally loaded.