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Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by slig »

steve8918 wrote: post #4

Can you actually copy someone else's images and serve them from your own website, or does that violate copyright? If you find someone else's images, should you instead link to the original site? I'm actually asking because I'm curious, I don't know what the actual answer is.

Before getting to the site, my first guess was that he was pulling the images from flickr CC search.

Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by rwar »

In addition to e-mailing for Submit Puppy, have you considered adding a Drag-and-Drop or a Browse/Upload? (You could even add a captcha!)

Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by femto »

jfi wrote: post #14
ericd wrote: post #13

I would love to be able to sign my girlfriend up for hourly email updates... (I was planning on doing that, but I ended up having to just tell her about it)

so a subscriber could get an email with a link to the current pup? I'd suspect not many people would want an email from me every hour. perhaps making it easy to toggle on / off would make that option more desirable? I could also integrate the site better with @hourlypuppy on tw. thoughts?

Some digital picture frames will accept an RSS feed. Why not make your site able to automatically update such a frame every hour?

Are there any companies out there offering RSS based image feeds, intended for such devices? One can imagine a digital frame hanging on a wall and the owner can subscribe to themed RSS streams. Owners might be householders, or companies looking for attractive wall art. A set of free streams could be offered, based on the Commons. There could also be paid or ad supported streams, based on proprietary images.

Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by atte »

johnnyn wrote: post #3

This would actually be great if I could rent a puppy for an hour for my kids or something. Maybe you should turn this into an AirBnB for pets. I'm sort of kidding, but sort of serious. I bet PETA would love you ;)

DAAS - Dogs As A Service (in the cloud of course). I'd be all over it - great chick magnets in the park :) I remember half-seriously looking for something like this a few years ago and found these guys: http://www.flexpetz.com

Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by marquis »

essayist wrote: post #19
ChuckMcM wrote: post #17

I thought this was touching. I wonder if you could hack one of those picture 'frame' gizmos so that it just came up with a new picture of a puppy every hour. No browser, just a sort of 'happy fun time pictures' picture frame.

Or a private Roku channel - streaming puppies FTW!

Sadly, not economically viable in TV form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppy_Channel

I'm not sure how well their website does either. http://www.thepuppychannel.com/

Re: Show HN: HourlyPuppy

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Post by jfi »

femto wrote: post #27
jfi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so a subscriber could get an email with a link to the current pup? I'd suspect not many people would want an email from me every hour. perhaps making it easy to toggle on / off would make that option more desirable? I could also integrate the site better with @hourlypuppy on tw. thoughts?

Some digital picture frames will accept an RSS feed. Why not make your site able to automatically update such a frame every hour? Are there any companies out there offering RSS based image feeds, intended for such devices? One can imagine a digital frame hanging on a wall and the owner can subscribe to themed RSS streams. Owners might be householders, or companies looking for attractive wall art. A set of free stream…

that's be pretty awesome. I know of the "rent physical art" services, but none that do what you described.
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