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Show HN: I built this website to help people with hashtags. Hope you'll enjoy it
- sauerbraten 13y agoI thought this would look for words in your text that make for a good hashtag, e.g. converting "you only live once" to "#yolo", and make hashtags from nouns but not verbs and commonly used words. Unfortunately it seems to just put a "#" in front of every word, which (for me) isn't even worth it to go to that website, type my text, copy it over to twitter/instagram, paste it, then send it.
- dwaltrip 13y agoI think the main point of the site is the list of hashtag suggestions below your freshly hashtag-prefxed content. Mildly interesting idea, however the suggestions I got with a few tests weren't that awe-inspiring.
- jschulenklopper 13y agoIn what way does this help people with hashtags? What problem is adressed? Just by looking at the use of hashtags by my non-technical acquaintances on Twitter or Facebook, nobody seems to have a problem with them. #confused Idea for your next website: de-hashtagify a text. Implementation: something like s/#//g on the input text.
- nicholassmith 13y ago#satire #tongue-in-cheek. I imagine it's in response to the fact people are hashtagging everything.
- esusatyo 13y agothe developer here: yes, that is what it's about :)
- gantengx 13y ago#you #forgot #to #hashtag #your #comments #lol
- nicholassmith 13y agoIt's an excellent riposte to the frankly silly amounts of hash tagging that's now occurring. I personally blame Instagram for it as the root cause.
- esusatyo 13y agoyeah, if there's enough people who are confused about what this is about, I might write a blog post about it.
- jschulenklopper 13y agoYeah, thought about that too. Not very effective satire then, because this HN-announcement and the tweets by the developers don't give any hint that this is to be considered a joke. (Even though they would want it to appear as such by now.) Well, another example covered by Poe's law.
- nicholassmith 13y agoI got that it was a joke straight away, maybe the humour hasn't carried well across the medium.
- gantengx 13y agothat's the joke - http://i.imgur.com/3Gpey.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3Gpey.jpg lol
- tjosten 13y agoPutting a # in front of every word is not exactly what hashtags are meant to be for.
- JonnieCache 13y agoSatire requires a bit more groundwork than this really.
- daGrevis 13y agoAm I the only one who gets annoyed when there are 3+ hashtags?
- gantengx 13y agoYou're not the only one ;)
- sahrizv 13y ago#satire
- kamakazizuru 13y agoi dont get it. is this meant to be humorous? also - why did it take 3 people to build this?
- logn 13y agoYes, I don't get it either. I guess that with the web now, this is what it looks like as people learn programming? I know for me my thrill in programming growing up was to write some dumb game that worked on console and then convince my parents and friends to use it. I guess this is the equivalent? The fun thing these days, you can get thousands of users and maybe do something with it other than immediately discard it. So, I see these as Hello Worlds to the next level.
- petercooper 13y ago#This #might #be #a #joke #but #there's #actually #a #lot #of #fun #work #to #be #had #in #building #systems #that #can #auto-tag #text #(or #"auto #classification" #in #the #pre-hashtag #era #;-)).
- gantengx 13y ago#thank #you!
- krapp 13y ago#bump
- dlsym 13y agoThe $('.pure-g h3.l-hashtags')-Headline is driving me insane. I guess this is not satire, since this tool suggests some tags. (I guess the hashtagging of every word is just a little side-joke.)
- danmaz74 13y agoShameless plug: if you really need something that can help you with hashtags, you can try my http://hashtagify.me/ http://hashtagify.me/
- supercoder 13y agoIt seems like a joke , but then kinda doesn't... 2 stars.