Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors • Hacker News Board

Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#1

Post by hb » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it.

http://getwebcolors.com/

Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#2

Post by hb » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#3

Post by togasystems » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 6:02 PM UTC

I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images.

Good job!

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#4

Post by kongqiu » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 6:14 PM UTC

hb wrote: post #2

Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/

Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea.

I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com.

As a non-designer, I like the concept...

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#5

Post by dshipper » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 6:21 PM UTC

Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#6

Post by aquadoctorbob » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 6:40 PM UTC

Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#7

Post by hb » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 7:01 PM UTC

dshipper wrote: post #5

Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.

Well thanks for your comments. I'm aware that it is somewhat slow for now, as it has no cache, or any other optimization. I just released it if any interest will arise. Hopefully I got enough motivation to enhance the performance.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#8

Post by hb » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 7:05 PM UTC

aquadoctorbob wrote: post #6

Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.

It has some stability problems, though it is working now.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#9

Post by biggitybones » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 7:06 PM UTC

It'd be great if there was a permalink where I could go back to for the color palette (I'm in Linux, so no Photoshop for me). It would also probably reduce load as I wouldn't need to get the palette again.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

#10

Post by mkilling » Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 7:52 PM UTC

Could we please stop calling those apps startups?