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Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com
- daveambrose 18y agoFirst, I'm a big fan of your flagship product. I use it on my site and told most of the Upper East Side about the joy Cornify has brought into my life. Second, can I get some account information - say, analytics when I create an account with happylink? If I'm going to be spreading happiness, I want to measure it.
- gonick_daysbury 18y agoPretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.
- yesimahuman 18y agoHave you seen how much drug users are willing to spend on stuff!??
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- diN0bot 18y agono
- axod 18y ago"Click here to register for $20. $15 of which goes to the 'legalize marijuana fund!'"
- erlanger 18y ago"The first 500 registrants get a free dub sack! But wait...call now, and you'll get two, that's right, two dub sacks! That's a $60 value for two easy payments of $10!"
- MicahWedemeyer 18y agoHilarious. I love it.
- physcab 18y agoI completely agree. I am going to recommend this to everyone who seems sad to me.
- sobriquet 18y agoMinor tweak: When clicking the input box, I'd like the ghost text, 'http://' http://', to be removed. Since I've already copied the URL I want to make happy, when I paste it I produce: http://http://urltomakehappy.com http://http://urltomakehappy.com, It'd be nice to not have to manually remove that first http:// http://
- okeumeni 18y agoI’m always amazed by people who spend time doing this kind of application. I wish I had that spare time.
- ajkirwin 18y agoPlenty of people have enough spare time to do something fun like this. It's called having a hobby.
- keltecp11 18y agoCornify is kinda fun... what is the point of Happylink?
- diN0bot 18y agomore joyfulhappyunicorn fun!!!!!@!!!
- apsec112 18y agoIt's a nice idea, but please remove the background image, it makes my eyes bleed. Your main website at http://www.cornify.com/ http://www.cornify.com/ has a much better design.
- petercooper 18y agoThere's a meta keywords entry but no content. They're not that important nowadays, but you might as well fill it in. You could do with a bookmarklet to make generating links easier. Perhaps you could add a feature to allow URLs to be prefixed by http://hapylink.com/ http://hapylink.com/ to then change them into the final link. For example: http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/ http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/ would return a page with the resulting Hapylink. Diggbar does it like this and makes it so easy to use. Could you make the resulting links /slightly/ shorter (optionally, perhaps)? I'd like to use this on Twitter but Twitter would shorten (or at least truncate) these URLs again as they're a bit long, I think. A logo would be cool.
- Cornify 18y agoThanks for the detailed suggestions, those are all good points. An api-type feature, like you are suggesting, is on the way, and the other suggestions are now on the list. Happiness all the way!
- Cornify 18y agoJust posted an update to the site. The API is now available (via http://hapylink.com/hapify.php?link= http://hapylink.com/hapify.php?link=) and links are also shorter now.
- jlees 18y agoI like it, a nice example of how you can run with an idea and get something cool out the other end quickly using today's frameworks etc. But where are the kittens?
- mahmud 18y agoFrameworks? really? how about a list of positive words, string concatenation, a random number generator, and a hashtable to store the URLs and their short versions, possibly with persistence. Common Lisp hashtables are transparently persisted with Rucksack, Prevalence, BKNR, Elephant, cl-store, etc. So here is my take on it, 10 minutes! http://paste.lisp.org/display/78367 http://paste.lisp.org/display/78367 P.S. how does one post code in HN?
- jlees 18y agoI use 'frameworks' as a handwavy term to encompass 'anything that means you don't need to spend days reinventing the wheel'. If the aforementioned Lisp utilities mean you can do that, then so be it. (Indent three spaces for code.)
- mahmud 18y agoSorry, didn't mean to jump at it like that. It's just URL-shorteners have been annoying me lately. Just because they're easy to make doesn't mean you should; there is no hack value in them, as nothing new is there to be discovered and no new ground to break; and they have no business value, aside from being, potentially worth BILLIONS as an integral twitter utility for the next generation of enterprise web grids and semantic net appliances ..meh.
- Cornify 18y agoIt's all good. Please keep in mind that Hapylink is not a url-shortener, but a url-happifier. Like you say, url-shortening is over crowded, so Hapylink focuses on more of a niche audience of users with unhappy links.
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- jbenz 18y agoAwesome. On Cornify, if you click the button five times, every piece of text gets a very happy modifier. I derive much pleasure from this. Will Hapylink ever add the same functionality? Because it would probably end war and hunger.
- Cornify 18y agoTry pressing 15 times for some extra sparkle.
- anuraggoel 18y agoFinally, a layer of indirection even joshu can feel happy about.
- ComputerGuru 18y agoAnother link "shortener" service? Don't we have enough of those in all their different shapes and colors? No thanks.
- Cornify 18y agoMost links are actually longer - but they are a lot happier and more like to viewers smile, which is the core focus of Hapylink.
- jollyjerry 18y agoMORE HAPPINESS NEEDED :)