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The Hipmunk & Reddit formula: minimalist design; cute logo.
- culturebeat 16y agoCurious, after Alexis's discussion of Digg, does anyone still use Digg these days? How?
- Qz 16y agoAs an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
- Groxx 16y agoIt's minimalist if you consider "minimalism" to mean minimal decoration. Instead of, you know, minimalism.
- die_sekte 16y agoIs there some generally agreed upon definition for that?
- efsavage 16y agoYes.
- kn0thing 16y agoI kept telling Steve we needed more padding between those links ;) check out how it used to look... http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
- keiferski 16y agoSemi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense. The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.
- Qz 16y agoI'm not in the Apple boat, but I do know what you mean about the Google-iness of Reddit, and more generally the Google-iness of Google. Aside from google.com itself, there's something about everything they design that is very off-putting in a way that's hard to describe.
- die_sekte 16y agoLack of whitespace? Google Mail, YouTube, even their help pages are crammed full of content.
- equivalence 16y agoTo my eye anyway it always looks like Google got the developers to do the design as well (even though that's probably not the case), whereas Apples' designs have a little bit more of an "artistic" feel to them
- idonthack 16y agoturn on compressed link display in your preferences. it's what reddit originally looked like, and it's much more minimal than the current design
- revorad 16y agoTime lapse video of Making of Hipmunk.com Hotel Chipmunk Bellhop by Alexis Ohanian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEQpwduyPU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEQpwduyPU
- pedalpete 16y agoThough the design may be minimalist (though arguably, hipmunk is just well designed, minimalist or not), I seriously doubt that is their formula. The success and buzz around hipmunk is that they have provided a better way to search for flights. That they've done it with a cute logo and minimalist design is maybe a small part of the success, but their ability to create buzz and to create great products can't be overlooked.
- usertm 16y agoreddit is not about minimalism, it's all about community, respect and "treating users well".
- usertm 16y ago(it took me awhile to realize that OP was probably joking. sorry)
- callmeed 16y agoIt's funny that he warns against describing your startup at "The X of Y" and then Harj said this the other day: http://twitter.com/Harjeet/status/49007424711049216 http://twitter.com/Harjeet/status/49007424711049216
- cletus 16y agoI consider that extraordinarily bad advice. If you think about the elevator pitch or even the 5-10 seconds of someone's attention you may get, "the X of Y" is a pretty efficient means of communicating what you do and how you do it. Sure it can also get overused and there is always the trap of thinking that there has to be an X for every Y ("the Priceline of Dating anyone?").
- cpeterso 16y ago> "the Priceline of Dating anyone?" Does (YC W11 startup) Grubwith.us count? :)