Comments on: Wundrbar: ‘feeling lucky’ meets quicksilver?

By: strottrot

strottrot — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:09:36 +0000

@ngrandy–
Ah! That’s great to know about the cookie vs. actually storing the un/pw. I’ve continued to use wundrbar & am enjoying it. Nice work!

@trauts–
vf. wundrbar’s blogger had drinks with John (Doe?). I was on my own. ^_^

By: Trauts

Trauts — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:59:34 +0000

It seems wundrbar is a little forward to presume you’d like to create drinks with the ambiguous character, John. This is a situation perhaps best avoided–careful use indeed recommended.

By: beck

beck — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:18:09 +0000

From your vodka example, it could be “Feeling lucky” meets “be careful what you wish for.”

By: ngrandy

ngrandy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:34:07 +0000

Hi,
Nick from Wundrbar here. Thanks for the positive and thoughtful writeup! It’s great to read about your process of discovering Wundrbar. One of the challenges we’re facing is how to communicate quickly what wundrbar is, because as far as we know there’s nothing quite like it.

We are about to launch a big update that will make Wundrbar customizable and extensible – it will be very cool.

As for your concerns about privacy, we’re very aware of these issues. Currently we do not save any external usernames or passwords – eg, for netflix, we sign in as you, and then store a cookie on our database. So we only handle the username/password temporarily. In the future, we will give people the option of having us store their usernames and passwords. It’s basically a tradeoff between privacy and convenience, and each user has a different point of comfort.

The next release will also have a clearer index of keywords / commands.
Best,
Nick