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by pedalpete 5817 days ago
I think you've found an interesting idea, though I'm concerned you may have overcomplicated it.

The 'green-yellow-red' was totally lost on me, and do users want to show their 'social availability'? or do they want to find what's going on when they are available. Why would I update that I'm not available.

Also your 'signal' button and even the concept is a bit to abstract. I didn't know what 'signal' meant. I don't think it is easy to understand.

A demo video would be really good. Some of the questions i'm wondering is if I say 'I'm free to hang out' how long is that status active? What are the next steps? How do my friends find out? You haven't made this apparent. The most I can gather from your site is that it's like a status update. Not that that is a bad thing, but I don't sign-up for these sorts of things until I know what it does. I'm sure i'm not the only one.

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Thanks Petalpete. I appreciate your feedback. I'm curious, purely for feedback sake, how old are you? We're noticing interesting differences in feedback depending on age. We will continue gathering info and make the necessary changes.