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Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

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Post by citricsquid » Mon, May 28, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/?

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#12

Post by yelhsa » Mon, May 28, 2012, 6:30 PM UTC

echoing someone else, the site doesn't load.

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#13

Post by dfamorato » Mon, May 28, 2012, 6:31 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #11

Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/ ?

Same here, does not load at all... Caching/cloudflare would be nice...

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#14

Post by wowo101 » Mon, May 28, 2012, 6:43 PM UTC

Thanks all for your feedback! In fact, we're aiming at being "Pinterest meets Instructables" – knowledge porn for makers. We're in our very early stages, so the HN induced traffic surge hit us a little unaware. Also, we are working steadily on our posting and sharing features to get more instructs on the site – any feedback on that is highly appreciated!

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

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Post by michael_fine » Mon, May 28, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #11

Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/ ?

I don't see why that would be worth $3 a month. In the vein of http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mai..., why wouldn't you just have one email thread where everyone replies what they did? This seems over-engineered.

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

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Post by oonny » Mon, May 28, 2012, 8:40 PM UTC

didn't load for me, are there any screenshot?

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#17

Post by pygorex » Mon, May 28, 2012, 9:04 PM UTC

Ouch. Says the site is down for maintenance. Can't even take a look.

Even so I don't really see the need for this site. When I launch a project I post it to my web site portfolio or blog then aggregate out to Twitter/Facebook/etc. What advantage are you offering over established publishing tools?

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

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Post by craze3 » Mon, May 28, 2012, 9:51 PM UTC

biot wrote: post #4

So it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?

Anyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#19

Post by blindgaenger » Mon, May 28, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

Alright, the site is out of maintenance mode again. Sorry about that, but we didn't expect such high traffic. Next step … upscaling!

Re: Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

#20

Post by BrainScraps » Mon, May 28, 2012, 10:24 PM UTC

Someone else more eloquent than I advocated that we stop using curved drop shadows... I concur: http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2012/05/14/stop-using-cur...