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Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary
- BrainScraps 14y agoSomeone else more eloquent than I advocated that we stop using curved drop shadows... I concur: http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2012/05/14/stop-using-curved-drop-shadows/ http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2012/05/14/stop-using-cur...
- yelhsa 14y agoechoing someone else, the site doesn't load.
- wowo101 14y agoThanks all for your feedback! In fact, we're aiming at being "Pinterest meets Instructables" – knowledge porn for makers. We're in our very early stages, so the HN induced traffic surge hit us a little unaware. Also, we are working steadily on our posting and sharing features to get more instructs on the site – any feedback on that is highly appreciated!
- popschedule 14y agoYou should store the image size ratio so you can pre-render all of your absolute positions before the images load entirely. There is a jump that happens when you reposition all of the boxes after the images load. noticed on a slow connection
- wowo101 14y agoYes, you're absolutely right on that one. It's on the ominous list of things to implement.
- PythonDeveloper 14y agoWhere's the instructs? How do I makering these things? ;-) Would be nice to be able to get "plans" on how some of these things were made, even if they are simple coat hooks. Not all of us are make-aware...
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- wowo101 14y agoYes, definitely – we're working on how to make it easier and more attractive to add instructions, so hopefully you'll find more of them in the near future.
- biot 14y agoSo it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?
- endlessvoid94 14y agoI already like this 100 times more than pinterest. I think it's a perfect slice.
- stdbrouw 14y agoIt's not about the technology, it's about the purpose.
- craze3 14y agoAnyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?
- antihero 14y agoIt's like pinterest but with things we've done not things we've randomly found.
- verganileonardo 14y agoI use WorkFlowy.com to track what I did! Every morning WorkFlowy sends me an email with all the tasks I accomplished the day before. This way, I can ensure that I'm being productive! :)
- pfraze 14y agoI cant recommend workflowy enough. It's my 2nd most-used app (gmail is 1st).
- pranaya_ghimire 14y agoBeautiful site. Maybe someone can do similar diy approach for startups.
- jamesbritt 14y agoIt is really nice. But since I'm already using Pinspire and can post my maker pix there, I'm hard pressed to see why I would join another site. Am I missing something? EDIT: I also use Instructables, where I can also post details on how I made something as well as pix. But it's not as simple as just throwing a picture up on Pinspire.
- wowo101 14y agoAs of now, you're not missing anything. We started out as a place to collect stuff we made Pinterest-like, then discovered people wanted more Instructables-like information, and are now working on the – as we think – missing links: Connecting ideas via "remake/remix/inspired by" links and changing from a push-model of knowledge sharing to a pull-model. As we are bootstrapping right now, things are moving slowly, but we hope in the right direction...
- gcb 14y ago"today i made a website that can't zoom out or scroll sideways on mobile" Let's hope all pictures have the interesting portion to the far left.
- citricsquid 14y agoSite doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/ https://idonethis.com/?
- dfamorato 14y agoSame here, does not load at all... Caching/cloudflare would be nice...
- michael_fine 14y agoI don't see why that would be worth $3 a month. In the vein of http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mail-e-mail-e-mail-is-all-you-need http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mai..., why wouldn't you just have one email thread where everyone replies what they did? This seems over-engineered.
- glimcat 14y agoAt a basic level, over 99% of the internet is text files and simple databases. Why would you have web pages? The interface is often important.
- michael_fine 14y agoBecause the information ends up being distributed through email anyway, just via a third party.
- oonny 14y agodidn't load for me, are there any screenshot?
- pygorex 14y agoOuch. Says the site is down for maintenance. Can't even take a look. Even so I don't really see the need for this site. When I launch a project I post it to my web site portfolio or blog then aggregate out to Twitter/Facebook/etc. What advantage are you offering over established publishing tools?
- wowo101 14y agoSite's back up again, sorry for the downtime. The idea behind todayimade is to collect and aggregate ideas for DIY projects in a very broad sense – stuff you make, sew, cook, craft, build etc., and to let people build on each other's ideas. Right now the feature set is really small, but we hope to implement stuff like "tell me more about how you made this or that" and "this inspired me to do that" in the near future.
- blindgaenger 14y agoAlright, the site is out of maintenance mode again. Sorry about that, but we didn't expect such high traffic. Next step … upscaling!
- aMoniker 14y agoIs there an alternative to signing in with twitter/facebook?
- LarryMade 14y agoBookmarked - I don't do facebook or twitter though, so no content from me... Wheres tumblr integration?
- wowo101 14y agoTumblr integration is high on the list. Since we're working with very limited resources right now, it might take a little while till it's released, though.
- tjic 14y agoToday I baked four loaves of sourdough bread, forged a drawknife from an old leaf spring off my trucks, and replaced the capacitors in a guitar effects pedal. Why do I care about this website?
- droithomme 14y agoWill there be actual accounts, or is twitter and facebook meant to be it for sign in?
- wowo101 14y agoWe'll have actual accounts in the near future, as well as Tumblr integration. Twitter and Facebook were natural choices for bootstrapping the site.