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Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

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Post by nsfmc »

exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards).

One (or two) suggestions for qvotr: it would be nice if the front page had popular/hot quotes listed, so that others can take a sort of read of the 'quote landscape.' it's not clear from the outset what the 'tone' of the site is, is it inspirational quotes, insights, all of the above, etc.

Second suggestion is to let the quotes breathe a bit more. they're really cramped in there so the overall effect is sorta meat-market-like.

Neat project, excited to see where it goes!

Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

#3

Post by ubuwaits »

nsfmc wrote: post #2

exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards). One (or two) suggestions for qvo…

Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well.

Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment.

And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

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Post by GotAnyMegadeth »

ubuwaits wrote: post #3
nsfmc wrote: post #2

exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards). One (or two) suggestions for qvo…

Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well. Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment. And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!

I'd just like to add more weight to the "Let the quotes breathe more". As soon as a page of quotes loaded up, my TL;DR alarm was firing, but after ignoring that and reading a few in isolation it was pretty cool.

Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

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Post by ozh »

ozh wrote: post #6

This is excitingly promising. Needs a Firefox extension, though :)

Also, 2 little CSS/JS glitches: on FF (latest, Windows) the closing quote is ill positioned and the popup stuff for "Share" and "Delete" links is off by a couple pixels, see http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png

Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

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Post by onlyafly »

esperluette wrote: post #5

Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.

Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?

Re: Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

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Post by esperluette »

onlyafly wrote: post #9
esperluette wrote: post #5

Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.

Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?

I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)
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