Nice design! Are the quotes input manually or taken from an api like twitter?
Show HN: My weekend project - inspirational quotes
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#22Nice design! Are the quotes input manually or taken from an api like twitter?
Manually at the moment, but I am starting the process of putting in a few hundred and automating the publishing for the future.
I'm actually thinking about opening up an API for other people to use to get a quote a day, but I'm not sure if there is a demand for that.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, You may move this button 'Sign up to receive a quote a day!' elsewhere. Currently, the center of attention goes to this green button. But, make this button look small, atleast. Just like you have this floating array of buttons for sharing, you can create a floating button just for Signing up. This way, the initial attention to this website is on the first inspirational quote, rather than on the Sign Up button.Thi…
How about this order: 1. header 2. the first (current?) quote, with slightly bigger text than the rest, or something else to set it apart 3. the sign up button 4. the rest of the quotes 5. footer, naturally ^^ ?
This also sounds fine.
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#24Nice, I like the design.
I have a similar app which if you want more quotes I've collected a few dozen, a JSON list of them available here http://quotaculous.appspot.com/a/quotaculous.json
I create the app http://quotaculous.appspot.com/ to be a screen in Safari top sites so whenever I create a new tab I will see it
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#25There was a site that did this with the quotes on top of a nice picture. Would love to see you automate the quote collecting, the old site eventually stopped getting updates.
old site: http://www.inspiremyday.com/
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#26People still like motivational quotes? When I see someone tweet one I immediately unfollow them.
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#27I like pages like this.
Here is a another one http://bigquote.co/
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#28Nicely done!
Shameless plug for my own random thought a day with pseudo-random flickr image background:
http://penny-for-your-thoughts.appspot.com/
also has an api if anyone wants to use it.
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#29I'm not sure of the best solution to this problem, but these quotes (and a lot of famous inspirational quotes, I suppose) are very clearly "men-only".
They refer directly to "men", or "man", use masculine pronouns only, etc..
Do you need a different stream for women? Or even optionally tweak the gendered words on the fly?
I'm not sure if this was just a random sampling, but it really struck me, just scanning down the list on the front page....
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#30Hey, nice idea for a weekend project :)
Perhaps you could add server-side validation for the signup if you're looking for ways to improve it?