what does "on your own" mean..? something I just want to putz around with, or does something that I'm hoping to start a company around qualify?
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#22what does "on your own" mean..? something I just want to putz around with, or does something that I'm hoping to start a company around qualify?
It basically means something that currently isn't your full-time gig (although I suppose someone could be independently wealthy and working on their own project full-time). I want to talk to people that are taking their free time and using it to build projects and be productive. The people that are scratching an itch and can't be stopped from building things. It would be amazing if some of these projects end up turning into companies and full-time jobs, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the end goal. I just want to interview people that are passionate about what they are doing and can't help doing it with the time they have.
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#23Might want to bump the contrast up a bit. A tad difficult to read any of the text. Best of luck with the project.
Noted. I have been thinking about that a lot, actually. Just wanted to get something out there quick to get some feedback and start soliciting people for interviews. I have a few ideas for the actual launch (which should be in a few weeks) that will probably include a lighter theme to make reading a lot better. Thanks for the input!
That change is not something you should be putting off for a few weeks. You're on HN right now, you've got a little buzz and some traffic, and changing the existing site to have lighter text would take less time than writing any of the comments you've made in this thread.
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#24Might want to bump the contrast up a bit. A tad difficult to read any of the text. Best of luck with the project.
100% agree. Obligatory http://contrastrebellion.com/
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#25Very nice brand/domain and style. I also like the idea and I thought about doing this many times but I didn't because there was just too much similar stuff on the net.
However, the brand would suit well nightly hackathons.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think i may do the same. (also within a month, hopefully of course)
Please bookmark! If you are working on some cool stuff, shoot me an email, now or when you launch.
Are you just building a landing page to test the market response?
It would be extremely helpful if you could provide a demo or mockup or sample of one of the interviews you have already completed. Is it going to be a short video or blog post or something else?
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#27Is this a "one" guy or a start-up company?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, definitely change the grey on grey text. I'm really diggin the cyan and purple/overall aesthetic though.
I agree. I think there's some kind of Pavlovian thing going on here because I have cyan and purple syntax highlighting for the "funnest" elements of my code.
I cannot agree more strongly. MrAlmostWrong was being nice actually - the website is nigh unreadable at the current contrast. This is something that should be fixed now.
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#29I like to work on things at night because that is when all the people who normally distract me are asleep.
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#30Might want to bump the contrast up a bit. A tad difficult to read any of the text. Best of luck with the project.
yeah I saw the page in one of my tabs, and said "waht is this crap?" and closed it only to find out in another tab that this page linked to that hideous site.