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Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

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Post by 3amOpsGuy »

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive.

The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated.

From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar to navigate where they want to go quickly. For example, if the site doesn't provide an easy "up one level" ability.

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

#12

Post by supo »

troymc wrote: post #8

Initial thoughts: - "Dofsome... How am I supposed to pronounce that?" After a minute of hypotheses, I realized that it's a clever mashup of DOF (Depth of Field, i.e. photography jargon) and Awesome. I wonder how many people will figure that out. Maybe give a pronunciation hint somewhere, e.g. (pronounced DOFF-some). (Doff some? Doff some what? Some clothing? Is this an intentional double entendre?) - The key feature,…

Thanks for the feedback!

- Yeah, we were afraid that the name is too clever for System 1 [1] to understand. On the other hand it feels good once you get it and it makes you feel kinda like a photography insider :) Also I'm not a native English speaker, but my English friends could pronounce it even without having an idea about d.o.f.

- There is no single particularly clever part about this, just the G+ style grid made possible by on-the-fly image rendering/resizing with imgix.com [2] and the absence of chrome/distractions. My company is working on a much more advanced photo hosting solution and we basically launched this to have a really minimalistic service to which we will be able to trickle down advanced behind-the-curtain stuff once it is proven to work for users.

- will check jux.com out thanks!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/... [2] imgix.com - these guys are just starting out so it is bumpy sometimes, but I've been recommending them because it is such a good idea

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

#13

Post by imissmyjuno »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #11

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar…

Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

#14

Post by 3amOpsGuy »

imissmyjuno wrote: post #13
3amOpsGuy wrote: post #11

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar…

Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.

Safari for iOS is probably a less obscure example - as you scroll down the page, the address bar will scroll off screen.

These interactions are expected by their users, and they know how to navigate around them.

I wouldn't be hasty and say i don't think it'd be a material concern, on the contrary, it could make for some interesting A/B testing!

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

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Post by supo »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #10

The video quality is not sharp and it's got ads from YouTube so it doesn't look professional. Other than that, congrats!

Unfortunately youtube loads a resolution that is smaller or equal to the embedded frame, I didn't find a way to force full hd. If you full-screen it and then change the resolution, it should play nicely.

The adds are there because I might have mixed some copyrighted music in the background, will have to iterate on that.

In general, the youtube embedded videos are probably not a professional way of putting a video on a product homepage. But it is definitely the cheapest+easiest way.

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

#16

Post by tehabe »

The video is a nice idea but it would be better if I could browse the demo shown in the video myself, just try the UI out, w/o register, w/o uploading photos. Just see how it looks and works.

Edit: Just found the demo, but it is too close to the "Register" button. I didn't notice that it is a separate button.

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

#18

Post by izak30 »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #11

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar…

Pretty sure my mom has never tried to guess a URL. URLs should be great, you should treat them as a first-class user interface, but not the only one.

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

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Post by supo »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #11

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar…

Wow that is a pretty extreme idea. With dofsome we wanted to achieve nice interface + smooth flow between photos (eg when you go photo -> grid, the photo you came from is highlighted etc).

This would probably be disrupted if you had to manually change the url and not just 'click on things'.

But as others are saying, we definitely have stuff to improve about urls (e.g. the album title in url etc).

Re: Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting

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Post by fudged71 »

3amOpsGuy wrote: post #11

I think you're missing a trick. Genuinely chrome-less could be pretty useful, and more attractive. The small black navigation bar at the top of the screen could be done away with, if you change your URL structure to be more easily understood & manipulated. From shoulder surfing various people of various levels of tech experience, i've noticed they are quite happy to edit a logically structured url in the address bar…

If you use fullscreen, having to get to the URL bar can be challenging. I'd prefer a very simple navigation than needing to use the URL.
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