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Show HN : My (current) Weekend Project - I am, I do

77 points by thehodge 15y ago

thehodge 15y ago
Hi HN, This weekend I'm at a hackday and the theme is 'dreams', My dream is to get people working on what they love and find inspiration, I find my inspiration in the people around me and the people doing what I want to do, so we asked 30 friends 6 questions each and put the results online, we've had an amazing response with some really thoughtful answers and now we've opened it up to everyone, we've got about 3 hours left before we have to present the hack and I'd love to reach 100 responses (we currently have 50). It uses twitter bootstrap as a default and I know that HN is getting a bit sick of it but it makes knocking up something quickly so easy and for hackdays I really thing it's perfect. We've got about 4 features to implement as well so I'll be checking back whilst we code :)
- thehodge 15y ago
  Currently working on * favouring an answer from someone to create a scrapbook of inspiration (we joking call inspr-paper ;) ) * showing on the sidebar people who are similar to you but your not following
- mattdeboard 15y ago
  Knocking something out, I think.
nyellin 15y ago
I love it. Here's my profile: http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  I'm [the other] co-author of it. Thank you very much, and glad you love it! :-)
sravfeyn 15y ago
Nice idea.Greatly executed.Clean design. But I have very small doubt. When people say this is 3 hour project and weekend project, do they mean buying the domain and hosting solution and deploying along with coding the website.All of those tasks fall into that 3 hrs or that weekend? I understand that this is done in hack day competition and my question may not apply to this case, but what is it in general
- thehodge 15y ago
  Hi Sravfeyn, Yep, we came up with the idea on Saturday morning, bought the domain name last night and spent from midday yesterday to this second coding it :) I'm not sure about others but our weekend projects are generally weekend projects..
  - sravfeyn 15y ago
    Thanks for the clarification :)
alexholehouse 15y ago
Beautiful. Simple, does what it does, clean layout. Really nice. Would be cool to be able to search by what people do as well as names, unless it's there and I'm just missing it. I'd like to see what other people doing (say, software development) have to say.
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  Hi Alex, We've not added the ability to search by "do" yet, but if you view someone's profile and click on their "do" activity it'll list all other users with that "do" entered. I'll stick the searching on the todo list. :-) Thanks for the kind words and glad you like it!
- mtrn 15y ago
  > clean layout Yes, http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap is awesome - although it's use getting a bit inflationary.
nyellin 15y ago
Some feedback: * Add geographic location and show people near you * Change "you have no friends" to "you have no friends yet. why not invite some?"
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  Hi Natan, Good ideas thanks. Geographic location would definitely be interesting, I'll put it on the todo list. And I've tweaked the wording of the friends panel if it's empty. Knew we'd overlook something! Thanks again.
  - nyellin 15y ago
    One more suggestion: change the Twitter and Facebook posts to "I am ___, I do ___" and a link. It is mysterious and doesn't look spammy.
slevcom 15y ago
I'd like to be able to browse random people easier. A big "Show me another!" button would be cool. Then I could just sit there and while away the hours reading random thoughts from random people.
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  Interesting suggestion! Definitely something I'd love personally as well, it's firmly on the todo list. Thanks! :-)
yesimahuman 15y ago
Cool, nice work. I think the "I do blah" can be awkward but I like the focus. For fun, my friend and I made a similar site called http://threeabout.me http://threeabout.me (profile example: http://threeabout.me/max http://threeabout.me/max). It's centered around describing yourself with the three most important things you want people to know about you. I think we both desire some kind of online profile that has limits, kind of like describing yourself in a tweet.
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  Hey, It's not aimed so much about having an online profile for yourself with constraints, but to inspire others and be inspired yourself. Three about me looks neat though, interesting to see how creative people can be when constrained in describing themselves.
flyingyeti 15y ago
Really cool idea. It's a lot of fun just randomly browsing around and reading peoples' stories. Tiny annoyance: the line-height: 36px (application.css:23) makes wrapped section headings look strange. One simple fix is to replace that with margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px;.
- caiusdurling 15y ago
  Glad you like it! Integrated your CSS change, many thanks :-)
westiseast 15y ago
cool, I like it. I had a similar idea rumbling around my head for a few months now (basically "I live here and I do X"), but the twist you've added of making it stories about people is nice.
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robjohnson 15y ago
Definitely an interesting next step into this geek list-like area. Keep it up and stay with it.

77 points by thehodge 15y ago

Hi HN, This weekend I'm at a hackday and the theme is 'dreams', My dream is to get people working on what they love and find inspiration, I find my inspiration in the people around me and the people doing what I want to do, so we asked 30 friends 6 questions each and put the results online, we've had an amazing response with some really thoughtful answers and now we've opened it up to everyone, we've got about 3 hours left before we have to present the hack and I'd love to reach 100 responses (we currently have 50). It uses twitter bootstrap as a default and I know that HN is getting a bit sick of it but it makes knocking up something quickly so easy and for hackdays I really thing it's perfect. We've got about 4 features to implement as well so I'll be checking back whilst we code :)

thehodge 15y ago
Currently working on * favouring an answer from someone to create a scrapbook of inspiration (we joking call inspr-paper ;) ) * showing on the sidebar people who are similar to you but your not following
mattdeboard 15y ago
Knocking something out, I think.

nyellin 15y ago

I love it. Here's my profile: http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin

caiusdurling 15y ago
I'm [the other] co-author of it. Thank you very much, and glad you love it! :-)

sravfeyn 15y ago

Nice idea.Greatly executed.Clean design. But I have very small doubt. When people say this is 3 hour project and weekend project, do they mean buying the domain and hosting solution and deploying along with coding the website.All of those tasks fall into that 3 hrs or that weekend? I understand that this is done in hack day competition and my question may not apply to this case, but what is it in general

thehodge 15y ago
Hi Sravfeyn, Yep, we came up with the idea on Saturday morning, bought the domain name last night and spent from midday yesterday to this second coding it :) I'm not sure about others but our weekend projects are generally weekend projects..
- sravfeyn 15y ago
  Thanks for the clarification :)

alexholehouse 15y ago

Beautiful. Simple, does what it does, clean layout. Really nice. Would be cool to be able to search by what people do as well as names, unless it's there and I'm just missing it. I'd like to see what other people doing (say, software development) have to say.

caiusdurling 15y ago
Hi Alex, We've not added the ability to search by "do" yet, but if you view someone's profile and click on their "do" activity it'll list all other users with that "do" entered. I'll stick the searching on the todo list. :-) Thanks for the kind words and glad you like it!
mtrn 15y ago
> clean layout Yes, http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap is awesome - although it's use getting a bit inflationary.

nyellin 15y ago

Some feedback: * Add geographic location and show people near you * Change "you have no friends" to "you have no friends yet. why not invite some?"

caiusdurling 15y ago
Hi Natan, Good ideas thanks. Geographic location would definitely be interesting, I'll put it on the todo list. And I've tweaked the wording of the friends panel if it's empty. Knew we'd overlook something! Thanks again.
- nyellin 15y ago
  One more suggestion: change the Twitter and Facebook posts to "I am ___, I do ___" and a link. It is mysterious and doesn't look spammy.

slevcom 15y ago

I'd like to be able to browse random people easier. A big "Show me another!" button would be cool. Then I could just sit there and while away the hours reading random thoughts from random people.

caiusdurling 15y ago
Interesting suggestion! Definitely something I'd love personally as well, it's firmly on the todo list. Thanks! :-)

yesimahuman 15y ago

Cool, nice work. I think the "I do blah" can be awkward but I like the focus. For fun, my friend and I made a similar site called http://threeabout.me http://threeabout.me (profile example: http://threeabout.me/max http://threeabout.me/max). It's centered around describing yourself with the three most important things you want people to know about you. I think we both desire some kind of online profile that has limits, kind of like describing yourself in a tweet.

caiusdurling 15y ago
Hey, It's not aimed so much about having an online profile for yourself with constraints, but to inspire others and be inspired yourself. Three about me looks neat though, interesting to see how creative people can be when constrained in describing themselves.

flyingyeti 15y ago

Really cool idea. It's a lot of fun just randomly browsing around and reading peoples' stories. Tiny annoyance: the line-height: 36px (application.css:23) makes wrapped section headings look strange. One simple fix is to replace that with margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px;.

caiusdurling 15y ago
Glad you like it! Integrated your CSS change, many thanks :-)

westiseast 15y ago

cool, I like it. I had a similar idea rumbling around my head for a few months now (basically "I live here and I do X"), but the twist you've added of making it stories about people is nice.

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robjohnson 15y ago

Definitely an interesting next step into this geek list-like area. Keep it up and stay with it.