Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#11

Post by keltecp11 » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:10 PM UTC

Cornify is kinda fun... what is the point of Happylink?

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#12

Post by yesimahuman » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:15 PM UTC

gonick_daysbury wrote: post #5

Pretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.

Have you seen how much drug users are willing to spend on stuff!??

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#13

Post by axod » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:16 PM UTC

gonick_daysbury wrote: post #5

Pretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.

"Click here to register for $20. $15 of which goes to the 'legalize marijuana fund!'"

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#14

Post by apsec112 » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:17 PM UTC

It's a nice idea, but please remove the background image, it makes my eyes bleed. Your main website at http://www.cornify.com/ has a much better design.

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#15

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:22 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #12

gonick_daysbury wrote: post #5

Pretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.

Have you seen how much drug users are willing to spend on stuff!??

[deleted]

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#16

Post by petercooper » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:22 PM UTC

There's a meta keywords entry but no content. They're not that important nowadays, but you might as well fill it in.

You could do with a bookmarklet to make generating links easier.

Perhaps you could add a feature to allow URLs to be prefixed by http://hapylink.com/ to then change them into the final link. For example: http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/ would return a page with the resulting Hapylink. Diggbar does it like this and makes it so easy to use.

Could you make the resulting links /slightly/ shorter (optionally, perhaps)? I'd like to use this on Twitter but Twitter would shorten (or at least truncate) these URLs again as they're a bit long, I think.

A logo would be cool.

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#17

Post by physcab » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:22 PM UTC

MicahWedemeyer wrote: post #6

Hilarious. I love it.

I completely agree. I am going to recommend this to everyone who seems sad to me.

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#18

Post by sachinag » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:23 PM UTC

_b8r0 wrote: post #7

novum wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Economists do; they like to call it 'utility'

This is why economists are so over-utilised yet never happy.

It's the dismal science for a reason.

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#19

Post by jordyhoyt » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:25 PM UTC

sobriquet wrote: post #8

Minor tweak: When clicking the input box, I'd like the ghost text, ' http://' , to be removed. Since I've already copied the URL I want to make happy, when I paste it I produce: http://http://urltomakehappy.com , It'd be nice to not have to manually remove that first http://

Or, highlight the first http://, so a paste will overwrite it.

Re: Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

#20

Post by jlees » Fri, Apr 10, 2009, 4:37 PM UTC

I like it, a nice example of how you can run with an idea and get something cool out the other end quickly using today's frameworks etc.

But where are the kittens?