Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#11

Post by harlanlewis » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:24 AM UTC

Add keyboard nav to upvote, downvote, and cycle through pics. The internet needs a streamlined cat experience.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#12

Post by christiangenco » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:35 AM UTC

bobbypage wrote: post #6

You should really submit this to Reddit (if you haven't already),. This is exactly the thing that the Reddit community would die for.

Crosspost to:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cats

http://www.reddit.com/r/aww

http://www.reddit.com/r/lolcats

etc.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#13

Post by fishtoaster » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:39 AM UTC

I feel like this would benefit from infinite scrolling. Having to stop and paginate gives me too much time to evaluate just what I'm doing with my time.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#14

Post by ForrestN » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:49 AM UTC

This a great start, I think there's definitely something here.

I think the biggest issue right now is just making the experience of browsing more dynamic. Endless scroll would help make it easier to see more cats faster, but I'm not sure that's enough.

One thing to think about would be making the cats able to be tagged, so we could browse categories.

Somehow, an extra level of engagement needs to come in. As hideous as that kittenwar.com site is, I end up wanting to stay there longer and I end up seeing more kittens because the game aspect keeps me interested.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#15

Post by drewtemp » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:51 AM UTC

jv22222 wrote: post #4

There's a few pics of my cat Baily for ya ;) (Not sure why some of them went in upside down)

Thanks! It's not checking EXIF data for orientation.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#16

Post by drewtemp » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 4:52 AM UTC

fishtoaster wrote: post #13

I feel like this would benefit from infinite scrolling. Having to stop and paginate gives me too much time to evaluate just what I'm doing with my time.

Love the idea. Definitely will be adding this.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#17

Post by nabilt » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 5:11 AM UTC

tar wrote: post #8

felixchan wrote: post #5

What javascript plugin do you use for Pinterest layou?

It seems to be using Masonry ( http://masonry.desandro.com/ )

Thanks. Didn't know about this one. I've been using Woorkmark's plugin (http://www.wookmark.com/jquery-plugin), but Masonry seems to have more features. Will be trying it out.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#18

Post by ForrestN » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 5:15 AM UTC

Looks pretty rough on my iPad. I'm sure the normal layout would be fine if you could just mirror that.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

#19

Post by drewtemp » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 5:37 AM UTC

ForrestN wrote: post #18

Looks pretty rough on my iPad. I'm sure the normal layout would be fine if you could just mirror that.

Just made some tweaks. Should be better now, but I'll work on improving that more.

Re: Show HN: A website to upload photos of cats and vote on the best

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Post by laurasbadideas » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 6:16 AM UTC

It would be nice to have next / previous / random buttons on the detail pages.

I tried to add a couple pictures, and they haven't shown up on the "newest cats" page (and yes, I'm sure I'm not just looking at a cached version). If that's by design, it would probably be a good idea to display a message to that effect after a picture is added (I just got the blank "add a cat" form after submitting my pictures).