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As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
and then Harj said this the other day:
As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
Semi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense. The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.
It's funny that he warns against describing your startup at "The X of Y" and then Harj said this the other day: http://twitter.com/Harjeet/status/49007424711049216
If you think about the elevator pitch or even the 5-10 seconds of someone's attention you may get, "the X of Y" is a pretty efficient means of communicating what you do and how you do it.
Sure it can also get overused and there is always the trap of thinking that there has to be an X for every Y ("the Priceline of Dating anyone?").
As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
It's minimalist if you consider "minimalism" to mean minimal decoration. Instead of, you know, minimalism .
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Semi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense. The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.
I'm not in the Apple boat, but I do know what you mean about the Google-iness of Reddit, and more generally the Google-iness of Google. Aside from google.com itself, there's something about everything they design that is very off-putting in a way that's hard to describe.
As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
It's minimalist if you consider "minimalism" to mean minimal decoration. Instead of, you know, minimalism .
It's funny that he warns against describing your startup at "The X of Y" and then Harj said this the other day: http://twitter.com/Harjeet/status/49007424711049216
I consider that extraordinarily bad advice. If you think about the elevator pitch or even the 5-10 seconds of someone's attention you may get, "the X of Y" is a pretty efficient means of communicating what you do and how you do it. Sure it can also get overused and there is always the trap of thinking that there has to be an X for every Y ("the Priceline of Dating anyone?").
Does (YC W11 startup) Grubwith.us count? :)
Time lapse video of Making of Hipmunk.com Hotel Chipmunk Bellhop by Alexis Ohanian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEQpwduyPU