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Show HN: My weekend project "Cake Day Reminder"

• bluetidepro 14y ago
  Not sure if the HN community will appreciate this as much, but this is awesome! I just signed up. Not sure if you already did, but be sure to post this to Reddit (obviously). I'm sure it would get much more traction there. Nice work! :)
  • NameNickHN 14y ago
    So far it got more traction here than on Reddit. I probably chose the wrong subreddit (r/somethingimade).
    • bluetidepro 14y ago
      Maybe try commenting the link with something clever on posts from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/cakeday/search?q=cakeday&sort=top&t=day http://www.reddit.com/r/cakeday/search?q=cakeday&sort=to... - That may help spread the word?
      • NameNickHN 14y ago
        I've done that already with missed+cake+day and forgot+cake+day yesterday and it yielded a couple of sign-ups.
• raldi 14y ago
  If you don't visit the site on your cakeday, reddit will hold your cake until whenever you return. So the reminder should be worded like, "Your cake will be there when you next visit the site" rather than, "You'd better get over to the site or you'll miss your cake!"
  • NameNickHN 14y ago
    It's not about the cake and all about the karma.
    • raldi 14y ago
      I don't follow -- the site holds the cake, and the cake is the key to the karma.
• bbrizzi 14y ago
  I was wondering why it wasn't working for me, then I realized it queried the Reddit API from the client side... which I blocked on my work computer.
  • NameNickHN 14y ago
    It'll work if you either deactivate JavaScript or if you add pass your reddit username in the URL like this: http://www.cakedayreminder.com/user/NameNick http://www.cakedayreminder.com/user/NameNick