I absolutely love the clear, fast, no-nonsense and almost Pinboard-like styling and layout.
Absolutely agreed!
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#12Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
Congratulations on shipping. That's the hardest part. Very clever on Amazon links in reddit being the source of truth. That will obviously leave a lot on the table, but gives you really reliable parsing. Honestly, this is a great site. I'd keep it simple, but you could definitely expand on the styling a little bit. Great work!
I like the styling. Clean, readable, works on hi-res screens and small screens like mobile. What would you want more? 3MB of CSS?
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#13This is great, and perfect timing too (considering proximity to holiday shopping)! Also, the minimal styling keeps things running faster, and in a non-obtrusive manner.
One small/tiny recommendation: you may want to add a little more content as to the background on this...so visitors understand where the data comes from (mentions in reddit forums, etc.), and that while this doesn't encompass everything on the internet, it skews toward mentions from tech-centric websites, etc. Again, don;t need to go crazy, just expand a tiny bit more on the data background...and hey, might as well insert something about you (which might help you get more coverage for future jobs! ;-).
Otherwise, kudos for shipping this! Cheers!
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#14Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
There seems to be at least one major laptop brand missing and there's certainly not a to lack of discussions about their new Pro models.
Perhaps it's because most people buy said laptop at apple.com and not amazon.com
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#15please add option to filter by max ram capacity, and whether the hdd is upgradeable. I just started to look for a ram and HDD upgrade for my 3 yr old ASUS zenbook prime, only to find out neither were upgradeable. I wish I knew that before I paid $1100.
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#16Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
How do you know if a comment/link on reddit is positive or negative?
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#17+1 for the minimal styling. Although I am starting to wonder if we could do a better job with the choice of colors and typography alone still living with the minimal CSS/JS trickery.
One website that caught my attention made me bookmark for inspiration was http://recipes.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-puddi...
For their use of typography, usage of lines, hexagonal contrasting title bits. I am not a web designer. Just ranting about something I liked as a end-user.
I have no relationship whatsoever with the website I linked to.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congratulations on shipping. That's the hardest part. Very clever on Amazon links in reddit being the source of truth. That will obviously leave a lot on the table, but gives you really reliable parsing. Honestly, this is a great site. I'd keep it simple, but you could definitely expand on the styling a little bit. Great work!
I like the styling. Clean, readable, works on hi-res screens and small screens like mobile. What would you want more? 3MB of CSS?
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a comment like this ;)
Op, if you'd like some help with that, shoot me a mail (in profile).
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#19Would love to see something like this for Photography/video equipment.
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#20+1 for the minimal styling. Although I am starting to wonder if we could do a better job with the choice of colors and typography alone still living with the minimal CSS/JS trickery. One website that caught my attention made me bookmark for inspiration was http://recipes.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-puddi... For their use of typography, usage of lines, hexagonal contrasting title bits. I am not a web desig…
Conversely, I prefer OP's styling over the one in the link you provided.