Show HN: Timeline.com • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#31

Post by arjn » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:31 PM UTC

Oh, Oh! ... dammit. I've been think about something like this for a while now. Nicely done.

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#32

Post by adamnemecek » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:34 PM UTC

tslater2006 wrote: post #21

nolk100 wrote: post #3

That would not have been a cheap domain name to acquire, especially after Facebook rebranding 'the wall' as 'the timeline'.

Just did a quick site price estimator, probably not super accurate but it said about 18k. http://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/www.timeline.com

I'm not sure how reliable that site is considering it's estimating the domain thehungergames.wikia.com to be worth $30.1M http://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/www.thehungergames.wi...

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#33

Post by untog » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:36 PM UTC

webwanderings wrote: post #28

lewi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://m.timeline.com/

Doesn't work. I don't get the point of "mobile web". What in the world is mobile web? Web is a web.

Works for me.

And the mobile web is web tailored for mobile devices. Come on.

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#34

Post by discardorama » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:40 PM UTC

I don't have a mobile device, so I can't really tell what's going on. Can someone give a brief overview of what this is about? It's supposed to be a new way of browsing news, right?

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#35

Post by webwanderings » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:46 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #33

webwanderings wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't work. I don't get the point of "mobile web". What in the world is mobile web? Web is a web.

Works for me. And the mobile web is web tailored for mobile devices. Come on.

I was scrolling down and the page went back to the front page.

My gripe with secondarily calling your site "mobile web" while you primarily set it up as an "app", has its precedence in how Internet content increasingly being sold as a product by going after a specific market, all at the expense of the overall Internet itself.

That's a turn off actually.

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#36

Post by pioul » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 6:55 PM UTC

discardorama wrote: post #34

I don't have a mobile device, so I can't really tell what's going on. Can someone give a brief overview of what this is about? It's supposed to be a new way of browsing news, right?

The mobile web app works great on desktop as well: https://m.timeline.com

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#37

Post by grumblestumble » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 7:09 PM UTC

With your servers seemingly being hit kind of hard, I'd recommend a refactor pass to using ng-bind over {{ }} syntax. Seeing unparsed expressions all over the place on your web app.

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#38

Post by adamfeldman » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

I've been dreaming about a site like this for years. Casual newsreaders need context given to them in a friendly way so they can properly engage with the content. Vox.com explainers are one thing but this is even better. Kudos on launching!!

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#39

Post by ericlin2004 » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

grumblestumble wrote: post #37

With your servers seemingly being hit kind of hard, I'd recommend a refactor pass to using ng-bind over {{ }} syntax. Seeing unparsed expressions all over the place on your web app.

Hi grumblestumble, we're on it now. Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Show HN: Timeline.com

#40

Post by schtick » Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 7:27 PM UTC

dadair wrote: post #20

Very small thing, but there is a space missing after the period in the tagline: "..string of events.Timeline weaves those.." Otherwise looks awesome!

Great eye, and thanks for the feedback! We'll fix pronto.