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Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

13 points by hb 16y ago

I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it. http://getwebcolors.com/ Thanks.

hb 16y ago
Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/ http://getwebcolors.com/
- kongqiu 16y ago
  Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea. I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com. As a non-designer, I like the concept...
togasystems 16y ago
I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images. Good job!
dshipper 16y ago
Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.
- hb 16y ago
  Well thanks for your comments. I'm aware that it is somewhat slow for now, as it has no cache, or any other optimization. I just released it if any interest will arise. Hopefully I got enough motivation to enhance the performance.
aquadoctorbob 16y ago
Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.
- hb 16y ago
  It has some stability problems, though it is working now.
  - lukeinth 16y ago
    I guess its down again, I can't reach it.
biggitybones 16y ago
It'd be great if there was a permalink where I could go back to for the color palette (I'm in Linux, so no Photoshop for me). It would also probably reduce load as I wouldn't need to get the palette again.
mkilling 16y ago
Could we please stop calling those apps startups?
tworats 16y ago
Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked. Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.
- hb 16y ago
  Sure you're right, it is not a startup. I just copy pasted the title from another post, so it has startup word in it.

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Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

13 points by hb 16y ago

I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it. http://getwebcolors.com/ Thanks.

hb 16y ago
Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/ http://getwebcolors.com/
- kongqiu 16y ago
  Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea. I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com. As a non-designer, I like the concept...
togasystems 16y ago
I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images. Good job!
dshipper 16y ago
Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.
- hb 16y ago
  Well thanks for your comments. I'm aware that it is somewhat slow for now, as it has no cache, or any other optimization. I just released it if any interest will arise. Hopefully I got enough motivation to enhance the performance.
aquadoctorbob 16y ago
Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.
- hb 16y ago
  It has some stability problems, though it is working now.
  - lukeinth 16y ago
    I guess its down again, I can't reach it.
biggitybones 16y ago
It'd be great if there was a permalink where I could go back to for the color palette (I'm in Linux, so no Photoshop for me). It would also probably reduce load as I wouldn't need to get the palette again.
mkilling 16y ago
Could we please stop calling those apps startups?
tworats 16y ago
Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked. Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.
- hb 16y ago
  Sure you're right, it is not a startup. I just copy pasted the title from another post, so it has startup word in it.