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by dougk16 7y ago
Good description. I get a good sense of what/who this is for and how to use it, the problem you're solving, etc. One question I have is if it can be self-hosted, even if that means just the initial Javascript payload.
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by dougk16 7y ago
Interesting idea. Are you trying to tap into the same psychological drive or whatever that has people buy a message on the big screen at sporting events? Do you have a "Will you marry me?" option? :) It would be nice to see more o
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by dougk16 7y ago
Nice this is legitimately useful. I dare say I would even pay for a service like this. Not like right now, but once in a blue moon where I have to throw a little website together for something, I'm not a designer and don't really
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by dougk16 7y ago
Cool initiative! Once in a while I find myself pondering this question, kind of like I ponder the nature of the universe, in the sense that I know my answer will always be wrong. :) Seriously though, I have absolutely no idea about this stu
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by dougk16 7y ago
Wow nice! This is hardcore. I wish I had stumbled on this when I first started learning various coffee making techniques. Three pieces of feedback: - If you search for a grinder like "Capresso 565" nothing happens. Baratza didn&#x
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by dougk16 7y ago
When I visit Show HN's like this the first thing I want to do is play around with it. The GIF is better than nothing, but my suggestion is to have a little demo where the GIF is. Also the last question in your FAQ, "How can I make
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by dougk16 7y ago
Reminds me of the aguara from the Witcher series. https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Aguara
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by dougk16 7y ago
I visited the site and wasn't really sure what it was offering, or what/if I have to pay anything. After reading your comment I have a better idea though. Perhaps add some of this copy in your comment to the website itself? Also y
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by dougk16 7y ago
> The trick to getting people to sign up is... (you are not going to like this)... a pop-up. LOL. No sir, I don't like it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA But I am going to put the subscription form at l
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by dougk16 7y ago
150!? I was so happy about my first 6 subscribers. :) How do you track visits? As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, if you're using GA I would expect it to be skewed by ad blockers from the HN crowd.
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by dougk16 7y ago
BTW, I think I'm going to put the subscribe by email input field right at the bottom of each blog post like you did, instead of linking to the subscribe page. Thanks for the tip!
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by dougk16 7y ago
The auto-hiding address bar on my 2 Android phones was straight-up glitchy with document scrolling, not the "convenience" behavior. Even other sites on my phone were fine. It was just my site, and I believe I tracked it down the t
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by dougk16 7y ago
Thanks, your post is much more informative. :) I was writing mine from more of a story-telling perspective, but I'll be following up with a harder post-mortem. FWIW I estimated visitor count mostly based on a requests per second metric
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by dougk16 7y ago
Thanks for the tips. I opted for that .content_scroller because when the whole body was scrollable the side menu was really jumpy and glitchy on the Android phones I tested on. It also was doing weird things with the address bar, hiding and
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by dougk16 7y ago
I wasn't aware of this project. Just googled it: http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/index.html Thanks, I'll be looking into this more.
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by dougk16 7y ago
Thank you I will check that out. Something about the side menu bar throws things off on mobile sometimes.
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by dougk16 7y ago
Oh could you expand? Something wrong on mobile or something? On some Android devices things were wonky but I thought I fixed everything.
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by dougk16 7y ago
The old web??? That's Web 4.0 baby! In seriousness thanks for poking around and linking that. I'm interested in taking the engine running my site to the next level, think Wordpress or some other site builder with an easy admin con
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by dougk16 7y ago
Cool stuff. Something always fascinates me about things that are just a few atoms/molecules wide. Especially things you can see and hold in your hand like the edge of a flint knife. Are these nanoribbons something you can see or feel i
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by dougk16 8y ago
Lol in that case the initial sender could be more subtle and send a hint that they specifically are thinking something about the other person, but not what . Then it would be up to the other person to try to match the thought without dir
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by dougk16 8y ago
I live in a hole so I don't even really know what Tinder is. No offense is possible! Thanks for the compliment :)
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by dougk16 8y ago
Ah lol I didn't figure anyone would read through that!
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thanks, it's mostly gotten negative feedback, which I understand as far as the pure styling (color, font, etc.), but I did spend a lot of time on the "structural" aspects of the layout so they work well on all devices without
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by dougk16 8y ago
Sweet thanks for that. I like it, very straightforward and to the point. I'm considering how I can "subdivide" Thoughter into little special purpose utilities like for breaking up, hooking up, etc. Maybe I just need to make h
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by dougk16 8y ago
Lol! I was joking about the domain, but I checked your profile and really dig what you're doing. Followed!
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by dougk16 8y ago
Correct, not for making wild hits. And yea getting past spam email anywhere near 100% of the time is basically impossible, but I did seem to be getting into people's junk folders more often than I expected. I'm using https:/
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by dougk16 8y ago
Very thoughtful comment, thank you. I am going to write up a blog post on why you should not use Thoughter in the first place, or at least only as a "break the ice" mechanism, and I'm going to use a lot of the comments here l
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by dougk16 8y ago
Ah but one can argue you have revealed your preference, namely that you have no preference, that you'll take the highest base on offer! :) And note that the other party can check if you sent those other thoughts out if they wanted, s
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by dougk16 8y ago
Nice! The comments on that thread are valuable, thanks for sharing. Do you happen to have an instance of it still running somewhere, or screenshots? I would be interested in some specifics of how you approached it since people seem pretty f

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