4 ms·
Show HN: A fun way to check Bitcoin’s price
- everyone 5y agoThe green ones are impossible for me to read. Light green text on light green background.
- joshternyak 5y agoGreat feedback! I'll update the site's green color.
- folkhack 5y agoI love this. Most crypto price interfaces are super complex and this is a nice simple take on it! Please keep in-mind that my critiques/feature requests are because I actually really like this =) Piggy-backing... Contrast as a whole needs some adjustment - keep in mind that people's light situations drastically will affect (effect? hell I don't know) how readable text on a background is. I have a window behind my most used monitor which sometimes causes issues with light text on light backgrounds, or dark text on dark backgrounds. There's also color blindness, age-related issues, and many other situations in-which you will want more contrast than what has been implemented here. This is very low-contrast, and I think it wouldn't detract from the "clean look" by swapping some of your white/off-white text out with black/near-black/navy equivalents, and I promise you it will make this software accessible to more folks! I also would love to see a general "cryptotemp" solution that allows this same thing for different currency pairs. ex: "https://cryptotemp.com/ETH-USD https://cryptotemp.com/ETH-USD" Great solution. Bookmarked. Sorry to nitpick!!!
- joshternyak 5y agoGreat feedback. Thanks so much!
- cghendrix 5y agoI like the UI. It’s truly refreshing. Cool stuff
- joshternyak 5y agoThanks! I appreciate it.
- braydentw 5y agoThanks so much!
- vlovich123 5y agoIs it possible to view a longer time horizon than 1 week?
- joshternyak 5y agoNot currently, but I might add that feature.
- braydentw 5y agoHmm, didn't fully consider that. Coindesk’s API let’s you go back 31 days at the max. I’ll look into adding that. Thanks for the feedback!
- randomhodler84 5y agoCoingecko api has historical price lookups going back years and it is free to use. It would be cool to see a historical weather report.
- joshternyak 5y agoI agree. Thanks!
- cryptoz 5y agoSure, past 7 days. But what about next 7 days? ;)
- joshternyak 5y agoThat's a good idea! Thanks.
- braydentw 5y agoHaha, well with AI and the world we live in, anything is possible! :D Thanks for the feedback!
- alpb 5y agoJust create an excel sheet and type =RANDOM(30000,60000)
- joshternyak 5y agoHaha!
- CamelCaseName 5y agoSorry, but it should be: =RANDBETWEEN(30000, 60000) (or randarray!)
- joshternyak 5y agoHaha funny.
- throwaway158497 5y agoIs this Opensource ?
- joshternyak 5y agoNo not currently. Do you want access to the source code?
- throwaway158497 5y agoYes. I can see this being used for other financial instruments. For example, daily variations of GME could be visualized in this manner.
- joshternyak 5y agolol!
- BrissyCoder 5y agoWhen can we expect golf ball size hailstones?
- joshternyak 5y agoThe weather does indeed change with the volatility of bitcoin. Come back on a day when bitcoin crashes to see for yourself.
- dariusj18 5y agoI have to wonder if you've already programmed in some Biblical flooding and what the threshold for that would be.
- gverrilla 5y agoplease make it appear on my win 10 taskbar right besides my city temperature
- joshternyak 5y agoOkay lol!
- braydentw 5y agoHey HackerNews! I'm a web developer and I developed, BitcoinTemp, a site which allows users to check how Bitcoin is performing. The prices are portrayed like a weather forecast, with some days being sunny and others being storms. I created the site with the help of my friend, Josh Ternyak, as a way to celebrate countries starting to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency. Feel free to leave a comment with any feedback on how I can improve the website. Thank you!