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Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by gumbo »

kmfrk wrote: post #11

One of my favourite HN projects in a long time. You'll have to do a blog post on how you pulled it off some time. Design feedback is going to be so friggin' easy from now on. If you ever begin to lose money on this, I'd love to buy a premium account or look into a subscription model. (Regardless, you should look into a premium user program. Some ideas: prioritized bandwidth, custom shorturl for credit(?) such as / /…

Good job. I was thinking this money about something that migth interest you. Here is the short story: Sometime at HN it is penible to read all those hundred comments. There are few possible improvments: - collapsible threads

How about a chrome plugin that allow one to add css to any website? I know it look like a hackers only tool but how freakibg cool this could be.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by gumbo »

stephenhalter wrote: post #55
d2 wrote: post #39

This is cool. A few suggestions: * Add a way to delete previews you've made. * Add more viral hooks. FB wall post, email, etc. * Do the same concept but with javascript. * Load each website in a frame with a 50px bar at the top or bottom with your branding and more options. This is where you'll monetize. I know you're focused on usability right now, but if it goes viral you need it to pay you or it will go away. * Do…

I imagine that doing the same concept with javascript would make you an attractive hosting service for phishers.

Not if you add some banner at the top.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by shazow »

Very awesome! Suggestions:

1. Revamp the "Recently viewed" and "new" lists to show the domains instead of the slugs.

2. Add "Most popular CSS pivots" for global and for a specific domain, track the most popular domains for pivots. Possibly add upvote/downvote ratings ala HN/Reddit.

3. Promote competitions for "CSS pivoting" specific sites. For example, "Best rated news.ycombinator.com pivot by April 15th wins a YC t-shirt" or something (partner with the websites for prizes, they get free design improvements).

Update: When make a pivot to a specific domain, show me "There's 11 other pivots for this domain" with a link to the list. Make it into something that could be collaborative/social. Let people fork/clone pivots easily ala github.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by kmfrk »

endergen wrote: post #42
metachris wrote: post #3

I actually got the idea from a comment here on HN a few weeks ago, and had a little time on my hands today and did it. Here's the obligatory HN link: http://www.csspivot.com/CH7HJ (just a green background)

You should try to leverage Dustin Curtis' American Airlines remake controversy in some way: http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines_redesign....

The completely hopeless cases tend to either require some big HTML rewrites or really laborious CSS.

In general, though, I thought of the same thing, and it might lead to an increased trend in these unsolicited redesigns.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by tnorthcutt »

Vivtek wrote: post #26

One suggestion: add a button on your top bar to view the original site (flip back and forth) to compare before-and-after.

This would be a fantastic addition. And if the styles are inserted into the html with jQuery/javascript, perhaps not that hard to implement?

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by Haarball »

Vivtek wrote: post #26

One suggestion: add a button on your top bar to view the original site (flip back and forth) to compare before-and-after.

Yes, this. I found myself constantly removing all the styles to compare the custom version to the original.

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by metachris »

kmfrk wrote: post #27
kaisdavis wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that there isn't a need to reinvent the wheel, but using it I find myself wanting some firebug-esq capabilities. I ended up just firing up inspector in Chrome, but there may be an opportunity here. Or integrating something like that could ruin the simplicity of the app. Still, I like this a ton.

He could add is as an advanced feature of sorts - one that isn't immediately visible to the average user.

Am definitely thinking about it! Got a pretty good backlog of feature ideas from the feedback here!

Re: Review my weekend project: Webapp to add CSS to any website and share the result

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Post by michalstanko »

gumbo wrote: post #71
kmfrk wrote: post #11

One of my favourite HN projects in a long time. You'll have to do a blog post on how you pulled it off some time. Design feedback is going to be so friggin' easy from now on. If you ever begin to lose money on this, I'd love to buy a premium account or look into a subscription model. (Regardless, you should look into a premium user program. Some ideas: prioritized bandwidth, custom shorturl for credit(?) such as / /…

Good job. I was thinking this money about something that migth interest you. Here is the short story: Sometime at HN it is penible to read all those hundred comments. There are few possible improvments: - collapsible threads How about a chrome plugin that allow one to add css to any website? I know it look like a hackers only tool but how freakibg cool this could be.

There is one already, it's called Stylebot: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbj...
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