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Making Mobile Better

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In spite of my utter dereliction of duty in attending to the needs of Slope of Hope’s mobile users, they have been steadfast. In other words, I designed Slope very self-centered-ly, since I’m a desktop guy, and I’ve got a bunch of big-ass screens. Using Slope on a tablet or, God forbid, a mobile phone, is a sub-optimal experience, to put it very gently.

Yes, we do have a mobile app, and I use it every day myself, but specifically we are really weak and awful when it comes to SlopeCharts. I intend to spend the time and money to change this for the better (and it’s about time…………) since a full 50% of our users are on mobile!

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