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Show HN: OneMillionColors – explore, add and customize One Million Colors

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Re: Show HN: OneMillionColors – explore, add and customize One Million Colors

#11

If you are trying to make something like one million checkboxe this is not a very good UI imo. Setting a color in a box should have been quicker. Before opening the page, i was expecting something like /r/place. Its not that. I don't see why i should be toggling a box at all. If you have more boxes visible at a time, it will give a feeling of canvas you are trying to draw by setting colors. It will have a purpose. In…

Thank you for the valuable feedback. I understand your points about the UI and the speed of interaction. I am considering different ways to enhance the user experience, including possibly a quicker color selection method and a more interactive canvas like feature. Your suggestion about using a predefined palette is a great idea, i will look into implementing that to improve speed and user engagement. Thanks for helping me make this better ...

Re: Show HN: OneMillionColors – explore, add and customize One Million Colors

#13

i don’t think there’s any other input type you can apply the one million schtick to except color. i was thinking of squared shaped browser native color pickers on a 1000x1000 or 10k x 100 non responsive grid. but after seeing the infra and bandwidth costs from the guy who did checkboxes i don’t think my stack of choice could keep up (RoR) i was really looking forward to utilizing fly’s pause/resume feature

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The idea of a massive grid of color pickers is intriguing, though the infrastructure demands, as you've pointed out, are significant. I am currently using Laravel and VueJs hosted on a DigitalOcean VPS, which has been manageable so far.
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