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by coderdude 5628 days ago
Nice site design. It's certainly unique and you stand apart from the crowd.

I just registered an account and I'm playing with it right now. I really, really like the getting started flow after the registration page. Just pick your programming language, then you're presented with the methods for installing the API wrappers, then you get your API key and help on making calls, handling errors, etc. I'm not left in the dark on how to proceed -- I'm shown what to do next.

The API wrapper for Python looks simple and easy to use. I could easily see myself using this for my next Web app.

For some reason on https://www.thesunnytrail.com/start, while logged-in, I am unable to click on the Stream, Overview, or Plans links below the logo. Also, there is no page title.

The settings page is dead-simple -- I like that.

Without being able to click on those other links that's all I could test so far. However, so far so good! Good luck, I think this has a lot of potential.

Edit: Played with the demo account. The dashboard looks good. I really like the stream feature. I think that's something I'd have open in a browser tab, going back to it every 10 minutes or so to refresh the page and see if anything has happened. It definitely appeals to the "stats update addict" in me.

2 comments

I rarely comment on these threads, but I had a quick look at yours and I like it a lot. It's fresh, nicely designed (although some of it could be a little "tighter" perhaps although I'd struggle to quantify that). I also think it fulfills a useful niche. I think it's going to live or die by the price points to some degree - companies who can afford X probably already have the capabilities of visualising this data, where X is the problematic point, if that makes sense.

But I think there's a niche there. It's certainly something I'd consider using if a project had this requirement.

Only one design point I'm not so keen on - the cutting off of the descender on the "y" of sunny trail on internal pages - it just feels a little jarring to my eye. Fairly minor quibble though - nice project!

Thanks for feedback. You are unable to click on Stream, Overview or Plans because you haven't sent any data. I agree this behavior can be improved. :)