Show HN: Startup Timelines • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by bakztfuture » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 7:50 PM UTC

gxespino wrote: post #17

This is great work Bakz!

Thank you Glenn!

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by bakztfuture » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 7:54 PM UTC

crisnoble wrote: post #9

This is why I have started to integrate a screenshot step at the end of my build processes.

My friend also has his webcam take a selfie everytime he ships! haha it's so funny seeing him run through the images of his different facial expressions while working on a project

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by bakztfuture » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #7

Great idea and execution, Internet Archive rocks!

Thank you, I couldn't agree more, I have always felt the Internet Archive is a highly underrated resource!

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by awwstn » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 10:04 PM UTC

For those who found this interesting, here's a similar blog post I wrote a few weeks ago with some more examples: https://medium.com/making-things-people-want/the-ghosts-of-p...

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by benpink » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 10:26 PM UTC

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #19

nedwin wrote: post #3

This is great. Here is a list of 20 (now) huge sites from when they launched. Apple and Twitter are particularly amusing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...

Was Youtube a dating site?

Sort of - YouTube started out as a Hot or Not with video.

"Chad and Steve agree that Karim deserves credit for the early idea that became, in Steve's words, "the original goal that we were working toward in the very beginning": a video version of HOTorNOT.com"

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570795...

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by caseysoftware » Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 10:37 PM UTC

codingdave wrote: post #10

dean wrote: post #8

Great idea. However, from an implementation perspective, it's a little hard to tell what's going on with all the flashing images. Maybe show the first image by default, then wait for a mouseover or something to activate the animated gif.

Agreed - if the author was trying to highlight the kinds of things available on archive.org, it didn't quite work for me. Instead it just was a jumbled pile of images... Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.

Click through one of the images, it's way cooler and more useful to see the changes over time.

Re: Show HN: Startup Timelines

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Post by fxx2 » Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 6:32 AM UTC

Really motivating, thanks! Also makes me miss the layout practices circa 2008 — a simple ~800px centered container, plain & simple. No responsive Bootstrap-style voodoo, no fancy & bloated javascript extras.