6 ms·

Show HN: Emoji Homepage: Find your Emoji – fast and simple

46 points by stanislavb 9y ago

stanislavb 9y ago
For the record. The UI is based on the latest Vue 2.3.3. That's really a nice and easy to work with lib/framework. It was easier to understand and use it compared to when I tried React (half a year ago).
- stanislavb 9y ago
  p.s. I can't get it why this post is not showing in the "Show" section O_o
  - stanislavb 9y ago
    p.p.s. maybe someone had to approve it. Thanks to whoever did that ^_^
amitmerchant 9y ago
Looks nice!
- stanislavb 9y ago
  Cheers, mate!
trainsarefast 9y ago
It doesn't show the diversified emoji, are you working on that? Like the speed and search by the way, faster than emojipedia.
- stanislavb 9y ago
  Yup, I have some ideas. Thanks for the kind words!
  - trainsarefast 9y ago
    Works fine on Safari on iOS and Safari on MacOS by the way
guusli 9y ago
Looks nice but I find it more convenient using ⌃ + ⌘ + Space on OSX.
- speaktochris 9y ago
  I just turned on the "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" option in preferences so I have the icon I can click in the top right of my screen.
- tenryuu 9y ago
  Same, but I don't think there's a shortcut on windows 10. You have to enable the touch keyboard button in the taskbar to get it
Philomath 9y ago
Good work! Only thing I see is when using a small screen, due to the "inline-block" property of the emoji, although it is responsive, the padding of the "emojis-wrapper" isn't equal both sides, so the emojis aren't centered. You could try forcing that for a super small improvement
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
Mechasparrow 9y ago
Is there an API for this. I'm developing an application that is an Emoji journaling application. https://emojilog.surge.sh https://emojilog.surge.sh This would help out with text-to-emoji parsing.
Guyag 9y ago
Instagram engineering did a blog post a while back on implementing emoji hashtags explaining (among other things) how some are represented by >1 unicode character. Pretty interesting read [0]. [0] https://engineering.instagram.com/emojineering-part-ii-implementing-hashtag-emoji-7b653b221c82 https://engineering.instagram.com/emojineering-part-ii-imple...
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
deanclatworthy 9y ago
I wish emojipedia worked like this. Great job,
StefanKovachev 9y ago
hate emoji, my gf is using HTC, I'm using iPhone and ... When she send me a kiss I'm seeing something different!!! http://emojipedia.org/kiss/ http://emojipedia.org/kiss/
- HappyTypist 9y ago
  That's HTC's fault. The kissing lips emoji is different.
josteink 9y ago
I guess I will surprise everyone when I say Emacs has something similar built in already (with the super-intuitive C-x 8 <RET>)? :)
- harryf 9y ago
  ಠ_ಠ
jagger27 9y ago
It's pretty choppy in Firefox (no fault of your own, truth be told), but it is really slick in Safari. Nice work.
- izietto 9y ago
  On Linux Ubuntu Chrome 60.0.3095.5 is pretty choppy, while Firefox 54.0a2 is smooth
discreditable 9y ago
Reminds me of http://charcod.es http://charcod.es. Except charcod.es does fuzzy search on all characters. They even have a duckduckgo bang (!char).
tgb 9y ago
Is there an emoji for :/ smilies? I couldn't find one the other day on Android and don't know what to search for but it's easily my most used smilie.
- dschep 9y ago
  This[0] is meant to be :/ [0]http://emojipedia.org/confused-face/ http://emojipedia.org/confused-face/ edit: HN strips out emoji. Not surprised in hindsight.
  - tgb 9y ago
    Oh, too bad it's so different. Thanks for the link though.
madsohm 9y ago
Searching 'cry' find the 'joy' emoji, but not the 'joy cat' emoji. Also, I feel that searching for 'droplet', should find all the emojis, that have a droplet in it ('joy', 'cry', 'sleep', and so on)
- stanislavb 9y ago
  I will definitely work on that.

46 points by stanislavb 9y ago

For the record. The UI is based on the latest Vue 2.3.3. That's really a nice and easy to work with lib/framework. It was easier to understand and use it compared to when I tried React (half a year ago).

stanislavb 9y ago
p.s. I can't get it why this post is not showing in the "Show" section O_o
- stanislavb 9y ago
  p.p.s. maybe someone had to approve it. Thanks to whoever did that ^_^

amitmerchant 9y ago

Looks nice!

stanislavb 9y ago
Cheers, mate!

trainsarefast 9y ago

It doesn't show the diversified emoji, are you working on that? Like the speed and search by the way, faster than emojipedia.

stanislavb 9y ago
Yup, I have some ideas. Thanks for the kind words!
- trainsarefast 9y ago
  Works fine on Safari on iOS and Safari on MacOS by the way

guusli 9y ago

Looks nice but I find it more convenient using ⌃ + ⌘ + Space on OSX.

speaktochris 9y ago
I just turned on the "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" option in preferences so I have the icon I can click in the top right of my screen.
tenryuu 9y ago
Same, but I don't think there's a shortcut on windows 10. You have to enable the touch keyboard button in the taskbar to get it

Philomath 9y ago

Good work! Only thing I see is when using a small screen, due to the "inline-block" property of the emoji, although it is responsive, the padding of the "emojis-wrapper" isn't equal both sides, so the emojis aren't centered. You could try forcing that for a super small improvement

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

Mechasparrow 9y ago

Is there an API for this. I'm developing an application that is an Emoji journaling application. https://emojilog.surge.sh https://emojilog.surge.sh This would help out with text-to-emoji parsing.

Guyag 9y ago

Instagram engineering did a blog post a while back on implementing emoji hashtags explaining (among other things) how some are represented by >1 unicode character. Pretty interesting read [0]. [0] https://engineering.instagram.com/emojineering-part-ii-implementing-hashtag-emoji-7b653b221c82 https://engineering.instagram.com/emojineering-part-ii-imple...

deleted 9y ago

[deleted]

deanclatworthy 9y ago

I wish emojipedia worked like this. Great job,

StefanKovachev 9y ago

hate emoji, my gf is using HTC, I'm using iPhone and ... When she send me a kiss I'm seeing something different!!! http://emojipedia.org/kiss/ http://emojipedia.org/kiss/

HappyTypist 9y ago
That's HTC's fault. The kissing lips emoji is different.

josteink 9y ago

I guess I will surprise everyone when I say Emacs has something similar built in already (with the super-intuitive C-x 8 <RET>)? :)

harryf 9y ago
ಠ_ಠ

jagger27 9y ago

It's pretty choppy in Firefox (no fault of your own, truth be told), but it is really slick in Safari. Nice work.

izietto 9y ago
On Linux Ubuntu Chrome 60.0.3095.5 is pretty choppy, while Firefox 54.0a2 is smooth

discreditable 9y ago

Reminds me of http://charcod.es http://charcod.es. Except charcod.es does fuzzy search on all characters. They even have a duckduckgo bang (!char).

tgb 9y ago

Is there an emoji for :/ smilies? I couldn't find one the other day on Android and don't know what to search for but it's easily my most used smilie.

dschep 9y ago
This[0] is meant to be :/ [0]http://emojipedia.org/confused-face/ http://emojipedia.org/confused-face/ edit: HN strips out emoji. Not surprised in hindsight.
- tgb 9y ago
  Oh, too bad it's so different. Thanks for the link though.

madsohm 9y ago

Searching 'cry' find the 'joy' emoji, but not the 'joy cat' emoji. Also, I feel that searching for 'droplet', should find all the emojis, that have a droplet in it ('joy', 'cry', 'sleep', and so on)

stanislavb 9y ago
I will definitely work on that.