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ro_dobre
2y ago
Ah, sorry, I understand what you mean now. Yeah, I've also filtered out images when calculating the color percentages and there are definitely some funky results. There's definitely a middle-ground approach here, I just haven'
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ro_dobre
2y ago
Thanks a lot! Yep, I'm working on an infinte loading feature, just trying to find a good heuristic so it doesn't start listing irrelevant websites. Thanks for the suggestion!
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ro_dobre
2y ago
Yeah, I need to curate the existing list of websites and perhaps swap the existing list for one with more popular websites. I'll definitely have a look, thanks!
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ro_dobre
2y ago
That's a really interesting idea that I didn't get to experiment on, unfortunately. It's currently screenshotting each crawled website and extracting the colors from the pixel values. One filter I added to make the palette a
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2y ago
There are definitely some odd ones. The screenshots were done a few hours after the initial crawl, some pop-ups may have appeared on the first crawl. The crawler also blocks image loading (to not take image colors into account because it&#x
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2y ago
Haha, lots of great ideas! I'm definitely considering adding an option to search by color proportions, just trying to find a UI/UX that is not confusing for people. I also have a lot more content (i.e.: the full HTML code of the w
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The site is looking great! I think that screenshots are a must, it's a lot easier for the end-user to preview the website's content. If you're referring to screenshots where certain colors are used, I don't think that&#x
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2y ago
Love to hear that, let me know what other features you'd like to see :)
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Haha, thanks! That's exactly what I had in mind when building. I've also collected what fonts and typography styles different websites use so I'm looking to create a visual for that as well, thanks for the feedback!
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2y ago
That's a great suggestion, will definitely do that in the next iteration. Thanks a lot!
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Show HN: Explore Websites by Chosen Color
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2y ago
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