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Show HN: Simple tool to hang your art at museum height

7 pointsby hisnameisjimmyover 1 year ago
I recently found out about a concept called &#x27;Museum Height&#x27; for hanging art, where the center-line of a piece or a group of pieces is at 57 inches (144cm), which is average eye level. I love the effect, but I hate doing all the measurement and math to make sure that I&#x27;m putting the nail at the right height. This made it so I&#x27;d always delay hanging art on my walls.<p>I started with a spreadsheet and some formulas, but kept feeling the itch to make an app. Welp, here it is! It&#x27;s super simple, and I wrote it as a literal single html page app with jquery out of nostalgia for simpler times. The code is awful, but it was fun to write and unlike a lot of modern frameworks I think this page will work even as the sun consumes the earth. Bonus: All state is stored in the URL so you can send others your measurements easily.<p>Please let me know what you think and if it helped you hang that piece of art that&#x27;s been sitting on the floor for way too long!

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dosplatosover 1 year ago
Hey, this is pretty dope! And it looks awesome on mobile! I have a lot of art that I recently framed and have been waiting to hang up. I rent, so I can&#x27;t use nails, but this should still work with the paint-safe command strips we have<p>Take this with a grain of salt (I&#x27;m no pro) but my only issues with it are:<p>- The span wrapping the &quot;Distance from the top of the art to the stretched wire&quot; hover state could maybe use a fixed width. I played around and 100px seemed wide enough for easier reading - maybe you&#x27;d use a different measurement than px though<p>- Maybe have that L+W display outside of the box vs inside for smaller frames like 10x10. It may look better - right now it looks a little busy
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pfistaover 1 year ago
Seems like it could be useful for handymen and other folks who hang art professionally
Baldbvrhunterover 1 year ago
Put up a picture rail
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