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I have a MS Band 2 and it has been great.

- Does the fitness tracking really well - Have the GPS for walks, bike rides and running - Have notifications - Weather - Multiple devices: Android, Apple and Windows Phone - Sleep tracking - Watch - Cortana

I really need to have it on me all the time. I only take it off for charging while taking a shower.


They just updated their UWP app for Windows 10 this week and added a bunch of features. It makes no sense to support two different apps on the same platform.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/twitter/9wzdncrfj...

Good to see they're focusing efforts on Windows 10.


Try the direct link from the website. It'll work.


Yeah unfortunately I'm at work right now so no iTunes. I'll check back later or wait until I get home.


We have a product that provides licensing and copy protection for desktop apps http://www.licensespot.com

We've been growing our customer base steadily. So the answer is yes, lots of startups doing desktop apps.


Find it strange that Trello doesn't promote this kind of add-ons on their website.


tell me about it :(

They're advertising for a Developer evangelist at the moment. Maybe they will sort that out.


Nice site. One advice is to remove the lego keyword from your domain ASAP. It's a trademark and they really enforce in a bad way. Change it to "bricks" as almost everybody know bricks refers to lego.


What I like about them the most of the separation. You're actually manipulating the data (XML) and displaying it to end user in HTML without going through the formalities of coding.

Being using them since 1999 too. Still use them today although more work is being done with JSON/JS.


> What I like about them the most of the separation. You're actually manipulating the data (XML) and displaying it to end user in HTML without going through the formalities of coding.

How is writing XSLT not coding?


That's it's biggest problem. If you ever had to look at a giant XSLT file and tried to debug some issue, you can understand why it never become popular.


It is. That's the truly awful thing about it - it is a turing complete language that kind of pretends not to be.

This is why templating languages are better at helping you maintain separation of concerns - they physically won't let you put business logic in the view layer because they aren't turing complete. XSLT will.


Not being Turing-complete doesn't prevent you from putting business logic in the view layer, it just means that you are likely to run into some limitations doing that (as there are some computable functions that can't be done in the templating language so that you probabaly will run into some business logic that can't be done in it.)

This might further discourage putting business logic in the view layer, but, OTOH, it just as easily result in developers starting to go down the logic-in-view road, running into things that don't work there, and then ending up with some business logic in the view and some business logic in more appropriate layers.

And there's really nothing inherent in view transformations vs. business logic that necessarily makes the latter sufficiently served by a weaker computational model than a Turing complete one, so not having a Turing complete language for the view can result in view transformations in other layers or constrain the flexibility of presentation if that isn't done.


>And there's really nothing inherent in view transformations vs. business logic that necessarily makes the latter sufficiently served by a weaker computational model

There is. View transformations are essentially configuration. As such, the ideal language for describing them is declarative.

To keep declarative languages clear, you need to make them not be turing complete. If they are turing complete they become unpredictable and difficult to understand.

Business logic requires turing completeness and usually requires mutable state.


It's a no code solution.

We already have the Javascript plugin. You just install it on your site and through the admin interface you can then start configuring what content to show based on the referral url.

Does it makes sense now?


Founder here :)

You can see a demo of the product working when you click on the link. A welcome message will show up at the top welcoming all Hacker News readers.

Also the pricing table at the bottom is 100% dynamic. We actually have three pricing tables: one for HN readers, one for Product Hunt readers and another one for everyone else.

Questions or comments, just let me know.


We make a software for licensing WPF applications, http://www.licensespot.com, and it's been growing pretty steady in the last few months so I guess there are still a lot of people developing and selling apps in WPF.

It just works. Some niche markets still prefer to use desktop applications.


Not even so niche. Businesses are still primarily PC/desktop oriented.


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