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This is a delight! This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes yo
by roughly 1y ago
This is a delight!
This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes you care about - this is a small, simple, cheap site (and I mean that in a good way!) that attracts attention, awareness, and donations to something the author cares about. It’s easy for us, but it’s magic for most people. Don’t let your tech industry imposter syndrome fool you - we can do valuable things to forward causes we care about.
Also, it’s adorable!
- imposterr 1y agoI've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". I find it better describes my intent to describe something as not costing much but not speaking to poor quality which I feel like the word "cheap" has come to imply.
- diarheadave 1y ago[dead]
- novosel 1y agoFrugal?
- wierd-eye-loser 1y ago[dead]
- gsck 1y agoTheres a phrase in the UK that is "Cheap and cheerful" which I think is perfectly apt for this
- specproc 1y agoI think "cheap" sounds worse in American.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoI would say "low-cost, high-impact" when that makes more sense. In this case it's more like low-cost high-delight which does sound a bit better than "cheap thrills" ;) The owls do seem to convey a sense of communal grumpiness, expressed individually :) Not unlike HN at tines . . .
- jxf 1y agoThis is a beautiful demonstration of how technology can be simple and powerful for amplifying a message at the same time -- no matter the silliness or seriousness of the message. Very "Old Web" vibes. Anyone who's worked on random enterprise CRUD REST apps earlier in their career (myself included) knows the pain of wishing that you were doing something a little more helpful or positive for humanity.
- gala8y 1y ago> Very "Old Web" vibes. *Owl Web Owl Rights Reserved (at the footer)
- arkey 1y agoat the hooter?
- ahazred8ta 1y agoDovetails nicely with the Superb Owl enthusiasts. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22superb+owl%22&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22superb+owl%22&ia=images&iax=ima...
- fuzzfactor 1y agoYup, all it takes is a single typo seen by somebody who is not very familiar with American football, and wants to find out more about the teams playing in that year's Superb owl . . .
- patates 1y ago> cheap site (and I mean that in a good way!) I guess English needs different words for the German "Günstig" and "Billig". They both translate to cheap, but "Günstig" means something like cost-effective/affordable (but I guess not quite?), and is positive, while "Billig" is strictly negative.
- thesuitonym 1y agoEnglish already has a lot of words for both meanings. It's more that American culture has designated anything low cost as being of poorer quality.
- PopAlongKid 1y agoHas that changed over time? Nearly fifty years ago, when self-serve gasoline pumping at gas stations was first coming into widespread use, I (native English speaker) was in Germany and remember a slogan I saw at gas stations to promote it: "selbst tanken ist billiger tanken" (sorry if I misspelled/mis-capitalized). So it seems Billig did not have such a negative connotation then.
- echelon 1y agoWe have words for "cheap" that don't carry the pejorative meaning. "Affordable" is the most frequent replacement. There's also "inexpensive".
- anjel 1y agoAffordable can be as euphemistic as it isn't pejorative though.