Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
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Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#2And yes, I know I could have just looked it up in many different ways.
But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#3Would be nice if you provided a bank of emojis so I wouldn't have to go to another source in order to copy and paste them in.
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#4Would be nice if you provided a bank of emojis so I wouldn't have to go to another source in order to copy and paste them in.
The idea behind the site was that you would see an emoji on a website somewhere and couldn't figure out what it meant. So the main "use case" I have in mind is indeed someone copy/pasting them from somewhere else.
What would you like to do that would require a bank of emojis on the site itself?
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#5Would be nice if you provided a bank of emojis so I wouldn't have to go to another source in order to copy and paste them in.
The idea behind the site was that you would see an emoji on a website somewhere and couldn't figure out what it meant. So the main "use case" I have in mind is indeed someone copy/pasting them from somewhere else. What would you like to do that would require a bank of emojis on the site itself?
A bank would be useful for general learning. i.e. when I went to the site just now, I didn't have a specific emoji that I needed to identify, but if there had been a 'bank of emojis' I probably would have wasted a few minutes of my day reading about what they mean...because I frequently have no idea what emojis mean...
And by wasted I mean I wouldn't have been working. Not a jab at your project :)
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#6I ran into this problem in a side project recently and made a package to programmatically fix it: https://github.com/NarroApp/translate-emoji
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#7I ran into this problem in a side project recently and made a package to programmatically fix it: https://github.com/NarroApp/translate-emoji
Nice work!
You could even go further using algorithms like Sense2Vec (https://spacy.io/demos/sense2vec?%3B%29|NOUN). They are able to figure out similarities between emojis and between emojis and words.
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea behind the site was that you would see an emoji on a website somewhere and couldn't figure out what it meant. So the main "use case" I have in mind is indeed someone copy/pasting them from somewhere else. What would you like to do that would require a bank of emojis on the site itself?
A bank would be useful for general learning. i.e. when I went to the site just now, I didn't have a specific emoji that I needed to identify, but if there had been a 'bank of emojis' I probably would have wasted a few minutes of my day reading about what they mean...because I frequently have no idea what emojis mean... And by wasted I mean I wouldn't have been working. Not a jab at your project :)
I see - I just added links to lists of most emojis to the header: http://whatmoji.com/
I hope this helps you waste a few minutes! :)
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#9I ran into this problem in a side project recently and made a package to programmatically fix it: https://github.com/NarroApp/translate-emoji
Nice work! You could even go further using algorithms like Sense2Vec ( https://spacy.io/demos/sense2vec?%3B%29|NOUN ). They are able to figure out similarities between emojis and between emojis and words.
I didn't know that existed. Thanks for the tip!
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#10It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name/annotation.