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Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

78 pointsby tim_churchabout 15 years ago

30 comments

tim_churchabout 15 years ago
FYI - I created this simple site for myself. I use it as my homepage to get a little motivational reminder every time I open a new tab.<p>I thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.
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jmonegroabout 15 years ago
Make it so that I can click the content instead of scrolling down to click a small link lost in a corner.
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wildmXranatabout 15 years ago
Reminded me of fortune , so I typed it into a terminal and got:<p>Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?<p>A: One less drunk.<p>On St. Patrick's day of all days :)
kristofferRabout 15 years ago
Awesome site, I absolutely love it. The only problem is that there isn't enough quotes, I think you should add a lot more.<p>I collect quotes and have quite a collection of good ones. Here are my favorite quotes, a lot of them would fit great on minimotivation.com:<p><a href="http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html" rel="nofollow">http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html</a>
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mrduncanabout 15 years ago
Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.<p>One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: <a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png" rel="nofollow">http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png</a>
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andrewdaveyabout 15 years ago
I like it. Thanks! A way to link to a specific quote/video/etc would be great for sharing with others.
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arnorhsabout 15 years ago
I wrote a similar thing into our project management system here at work. Whenever we receive notifications about a project or something, a little small quote like the ones you're publishing are added to the end of the e-mail...<p>It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).<p>So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}<p>It seems like an overkill, though :-)
richardburtonabout 15 years ago
This video just came up:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&#38;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&#38;feature=playe...</a><p>It blew me away.
secosabout 15 years ago
Nice! Is there a way to suggest quotes?
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paraschopraabout 15 years ago
Great, don't take any suggestions from here. The app looks perfect, but it would have been fantastic if you had an API interface :)<p>No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.
jmhobbsabout 15 years ago
Cool, looks similar to something I made last month :-)<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574</a> <a href="http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more</a> <a href="http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/</a>
NEPatriotabout 15 years ago
have you thought about automatically updating the quotes every 10-15 seconds?
aw3c2about 15 years ago
The text is way too big for me to easily read it.
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empire29about 15 years ago
Nice concept and i like the simple execution.<p>the font size does require me to "move my eyes" a lot to read longer phrases. i like how completely simple and to the point it is though.<p>it would be neat to let users submit their own inspirational nuggets - though you would probably have to review them to avoid misuse.
ankit_about 15 years ago
Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too. Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes?<p>If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
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chanuxabout 15 years ago
Nice. And added to my little inspiration collection :)<p><a href="http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation" rel="nofollow">http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation</a><p>And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
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sw1205about 15 years ago
This is just brilliant! Great work! I think you should be able to click the quote to go to the next one rather than having to go to the bottom of the page and click refresh. Other than that I loved it!
ananthrkabout 15 years ago
Cool. Mind sharing the list of quotes you use as a single file? :)
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dzlobinabout 15 years ago
I like the site, nice and simple.<p>My only question is where do the quotes come from? I hit f5 too fast before noticing one of the quotes was by "Heywood Jablowme"
mikecaneabout 15 years ago
Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?
arnorhsabout 15 years ago
Good job!<p>I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.
Lorinabout 15 years ago
Make this into a chrome extension as an addition to the default "new tab" page :)
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raluxgazaabout 15 years ago
Yes, simple and straight to the point. Good going matey
shin_laoabout 15 years ago
I like it. What about Star Trek quotes ? :p
passthesaltabout 15 years ago
Hey good job, really like it!
faramarzabout 15 years ago
Thanks! My new homepage :)
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csomarabout 15 years ago
Refresh the page? Why not use jQuery Ajax function to call the server side script.
jmonegroabout 15 years ago
Let users submit their own quotes.
dugmartinabout 15 years ago
Nice.
knownabout 15 years ago
+1