Hautlinks

Broken pagination

Apparently I broke pagination at some point. It’s now working again.

Back from vacations

I am back from the mighty midwest. Being on a plane for many hours gave me a chance to do a little work on hautlinks. Editing of bookmarks is now back and working, and some of the pages have undergone some cleanup. More to come.

A Hautlinks redesign

There has been a redesign at Hautlinks. The entire site is pretty much different. It is by no means finished. I just wanted to update before I went on vacation. There is still a huge todo list that I will start hammering on when I get back. Some features went away, mainly because they are being reimplemented. Don’t worry they will be back soon. I am leaving tomorrow morning for Cleavland and Chicago. Next week I will return and start turning things back on.

Listen to those users

Slowly but surely the site is looking better. Being a small team trying to deploy and move fast is tough work. You end up having to juggle programming, design, marketing, blogging, content writing, and everything else that entails running a startup. Time is limited, which means you end up pushing certain things on the back burner in order to accomplish something else. The most important thing for us at Hautlinks was to get a product out as fast as possible. Even if it ment pushing out a product that barely works.

Why would we want to do this?

The reasoning behind this is that by pushing out ASAP we could get people using the site, and start using the site ourselves. It would then be apparent what the problems were and we could go back and fix those.

I’m pretty happy that we did this. We pushed out the first version of Hautlinks in about a week. The site hasn’t even been around a month and yet we have made tons of changes, bug fixes, and added features. Thinking back to when we first started on this I’m positive certain things would have been forgotten about or looked over if we hadn’t had people bothering us to fix it.

I like those people. Those people are the reason that things got done in a quick manner. Those people are also the reason why I keep working on the site. Of course the features that I add is something that I want, but I often forget that I know how to use the site already because I helped write it. The users of the site are coming in clean, without knowing the intimate details of how the site operates. They can tell you what doesn’t make sense and what needs to be changed so that the average user knows what is going on.  

Thank you and keep telling us what we are doing wrong. We do listen, and we are finding time to implement what people suggest. 

New Splash Page

We have a new splash page that includes a tab menu with more information about what Hautlinks does. A lot of the feedback we were getting was questions about  how to use the site, so this along with the video are aimed at fixing that problem. 

With each sweep we are making the site simpler and cleaner. Shoot us an email if you have any suggestions.