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The idea is cool, actually I had one like this about 10 years ago but didn't have the guts to launch it :) I got some criticism towards the GUI (although you t
by zalew 15y ago
The idea is cool, actually I had one like this about 10 years ago but didn't have the guts to launch it :)
I got some criticism towards the GUI (although you took the good direction to keep it simple). I hate the endless scroll. Endless scrolls are cool for fooling around browsing pics, etc. not for browsing organized data - it just doesn't make sense in this context. Boxes desperately need padding, everything is too cluttered. Try sharpening the color scheme and use a cool sans-serif font from google webfonts, it'll make it visually more appealing.
The name is great.
What's the tech behind it? Some schemaless db I suppose? Data sources - Wiki lists or you entered the 'fake it till you make it' batch by hand?
It needs an API, without a dead-simple API it won't bring enough additional value to f.ex. browsing wikipedia lists (the data is already there), IMO.
Keep up
- syntonic 15y agoThank you for the comments. I mostly agree with you on the UI, but I wouldn't say endless scroll doesn't make sense in this context. Even though I'm really not a big fan of it, in my mind, I'm going for data that is easily 'discoverable'. I don't see why browsing organized data can't be like fooling around, browsing through pics :) But, I see your point. The tech is actually butt simple. The client is JQuery (mostly ajax calls) and the server is just PHP and MySQL. I use MySQL in a 'meta' way because it's essentially a database of databases. I think it would be fun to switch to some NoSQL DBMS sometime in the future. At the moment, I'm just faking the data by hand. I have some ideas for where to pull data from. I just Googled Wikipida lists - thanks I'll definitely check it out :)