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Hi, HN. About a month ago I showed you all my November launch project. A few of you seemed interested in it, and I've added quite a bit since then, so I'm sho
by blhack 16y ago
Hi, HN. About a month ago I showed you all my November launch project. A few of you seemed interested in it, and I've added quite a bit since then, so I'm showing you again :).
First, the point of the site is to share lists. Originally it was a place for me to keep a Christmas list, but I quickly wanted to be able to add stuff like "coffee" to lists like "things I love".
After that, the ability to share pictures of the things I was listing sounded cool, so I added the ability to upload a photo along with whatever item you were listing.
Then I noticed that one of my favorite lists (songs I love) was pretty much all just links to youtube, so I added the code to automatically embed youtube videos instead of just linking to them. The same now goes for soundcloud and vimeo.
Something an HNer asked for last time was the ability to expand a list onto one page...which I added (and it looks like this: http://thingist.com/t/pageview/1674/ http://thingist.com/t/pageview/1674/)
The "notifications" have improved quite a bit since I showed you as well. If somebody comments on one of your items, or comments on something you've commented on, or "relists" one of your things, or mentions you in a post (by prepending your username with a $, so $blhack, if this was HN), you'll get a notifications about it.
As far as numbers go...the site growing has stagnated, and I would love it if anybody could give me some advice on how to fix that... The people that do use it use it quite a bit, I just wish there were more of them.
Anyway, maybe this post will get ignored, sorry if it's against guidelines to submit a project twice. I've been having a lot of fun building this so far (the most fun for me was definitely working with soundcloud's API...something that I had never done before).