Hi everyone,

Found this blog recently and enjoying reading the discussion.

Wanted to share a new extension that we had as a shower thought and ended up building out.

Essentially it's an always on search bar that helps you select any links with your keyboard. It works on a bunch of websites, and is open source, so if you stumble on link on some website that doesn't selected properly, you can always improve it!

Let us know what you think: https://yip-yip.com

Inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender)

I just installed Yip-Yip into my browser (Vivaldi).
But I almost didn’t.
Why not?

The web site looks designed by a teenage girl to impress her friends, “Ohhh! How cute!”
Lots of cartoons with no substance, plus the obligatory photo of a brown skin female, the obligatory image of someone in a wheel chair, and the obligatory group of people with multi-colored skins.
So, at first glance my impression was, “This is not a serious product.”

But I am a serious keyboarder.
Started using computers back when there were no such things as mouses.
So I started reading the web site for Yip-Yip.

Again, almost gave up and closed that tab.
The description reads like a script for “Home Shopping Network”,
“It slices!! It dices!! It chops!! It cleans up after itself.!! All for only $49.95 !!!
Don't believe me?
Here’s an actual quote from the web site: “Fly through your work as if you had a flying bison to help.”

Flying bison ???

Very silly, but anything that helps me keep my fingers on the keys attracts me.
So I installed.

The install procedure required entering an email.
Why?
No logical reason comes to mind.
Of course I used a masked email alias which is easy to delete.
Could have used a totally fake email address.

Now I want to say something nice about Yip-Yip:
Loading the extension was quick and smooth.
And a short video demo popped up right away after the install to be helpful.
It was confusing, but short.

All for what?
Unless I missed something, Yip-Yip only works within one tab in one browser window.
Can not switch between browser tabs or between browser windows.
Ah, no thanks.

Yip-Yip is a clever idea.
Simple and easy to use.
For working in ONE TAB for a long time – such as someone who spends many hours in email – and who prefers to type rather than mouse around, then, yes, worth a look.

But beyond that limited scope, nope.

And that silly web site will discourage serious users before they even look at the extension.

Just a quick note to say that YipYip is made by the Comake team, developers of KnowledgeOS which was recently discussed here.

I've installed KnowledgeOS on my main browser and have found it a very useful piece of software, easy to integrate in my workflow. I'll write more about it in the dedicated thread.

I received yesterday a heads-up about YipYip and am eager to try it out. I like Comake's approach to improving productivity through handy tools.


andreseg wrote:

Essentially it's an always on search bar that helps you select any links
with your keyboard. It works on a bunch of websites, and is open source,
so if you stumble on link on some website that doesn't selected
properly, you can always improve it!

I suppose to each his own, but I thought the website was quite nice, not too cluttered, and completely lacking any "teenage girl" vibe.

As for "flying bison": perhaps an apt descriptor as they *are* surprisingly fast despite their girth.

Hi Larry, thanks for the reply. Really appreciate the candid feedback.

We're sorry you don't like the website or the brand. It's an homage to Avatar the last Airbender - when anytime the main character in that show wants to go somewhere he says YipYip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqBt372ESk The idea of YipYip is the same. Type where you want to go, or once we introduce voice recognition, users will be able to say "YipYip [something you see on the screen]" and the extension will help you select that link. (more on voice recognition below)

“It slices!! It dices!! It chops!! It cleans up after itself.!! All for only $49.95 !!!

Thanks Alexandre! Glad you're liking KnowledgeOS. Feel free to let us know what we can do to make it better at any time. We're all ears!

Hahaha. I've answered this above, but it's basically a suggestion that you can get to where you need to go faster than before.

Inspired by Nickelodeons Avatar the Last Airbender... the main character says "YipYip" whenever he wants his "flying bison" to take off and help him fly across the world. The idea with YipYip is you can use it to find and go to wherever you want to go on whatever webpage you're viewing. Once we integrate speech recognition software, you will literally be able to say things like "YipYip inbox" "YipYip compose" "YipYip home" to navigate webpages. More on the vision for this here: https://github.com/comake/yip-yip/issues/10

andreseg wrote:

We thought a playful tone would be welcome here, but it seems to have alienated you.
What would you prefer to see?

For a perfect example of a clean, sharply-focused presentation, see Maurice Parker's website for Zavala:
https://zavala.vincode.io

An office full of people saying "YipYip!" over and over again. Welcome to Hell.

I dunno, I thought it was quite funny, I must confess.

But yes, I work in an office and have no interest in using verbal cues of any kind to interact with my computers. Which is why I haven’t contributed to this thread, till now.

Cheers!
Bill

tightbeam wrote:

An office full of people saying "YipYip!" over and over again. Welcome
to Hell.