> Is there a broader need for a service like this?

This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.

Bizarrely, many search engines seem to think it would be helpful to truncate the titles of search results. For example, the example search "python exceptions" suggested by Kagi on their homepage results in:

> How to Handle Exceptions in Python: A Detailed Visual...

A search on DuckDuckGo displays the complete title.

fyi - your fancy scrolling message box at the top of your homepage ("Bringing methane leaks to zero" etc.) is almost impossible to read on my laptop.

Thank you for the feedback! Will change that quickly!

Behind Closed Doors by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby.

I opened the link, and my laptop fan started running full blast.

Chrome 108.0.5359.98, MacOS 11.7.1

I opened the Chrome Task Manager and the "GPU Process" was pegging the CPU.

I closed the Readwise tab and CPU usage dropped to normal.

I opened https://readwise.io/read again. After a minute the "GPU Process" CPU usage went back up to 73%.

fyi - some feedback on your website, in case it might be helpful.

I clicked on it first before I read your description here.

Looking at your website, I had no idea what you were doing.

I don't even see "mobile" mentioned anywhere.

The headline says "Turn your app into a link"; I skipped over "APK", and read "get a shareable link to an interactive version of your app"

Um, isn't my app already interactive?

I scrolled through the rest of the page, and still had no idea what you did.

Then I came back here, clicked on "comments", and read your description.

Which was great. Oh, you give a link to a -> mobile app -> emulator -> which can be easily tested without having to get it on an actual phone.

If you took your description here and put it on your home page, it'd be much better :-)

This is good feedback, we will definitely update the description. Is "A mobile app emulator you can share with a link" clearer as a first sentence?

fyi small typo in https://oss-docs.castled.io/deploying-castled/deploy-on-aws-...: "Login to you AWS web console"

Fixed :)

fyi Your purple "Deploy on AWS" link (https://docs.castled.io/deploying-castled/deploy-on-aws-ec2) at the top of your README yields a 404.

just fixed :) Thanks!

Pricing is hard to find; the main site only says "Join today for $29.99 to start." which could mean anything ("$30 for the first month and $300/month after that")

I had to click through to the portal and then get past the kit to find the actual pricing. $30/month is quite reasonable if it works, and it'd be reassuring to see that up front!

Thank you for this feedback because we are still trying to work out how to best present information on our website. Do you think the pricing should come up earlier on the homepage?

I don't mind scrolling down to find pricing information. It's not a problem to first describe the benefits and then to describe the price.

The problem is that you don't have pricing information on your homepage. "Join today for $29.99 to start." could mean anything: $29.99 for three days and then $200/week.

All you need to say is "$30/month" on your homepage somewhere and then I know what the price is.

If you don't tell me the price I'm going to assume I can't afford it :)

That makes sense, I will convey this to our team as we redesign the website. Thank you for the feedback!

My favorite method of following a blog continues to be using an RSS feed reader.

(It's kind of like email: email is boring and old-fashioned, and there are many shiny new alternatives, but I still use email more than I use anything else. Same with following a project's progress on a blog using a RSS feed reader).

If you add an RSS feed to your blog, I'll subscribe :)