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Show HN: Eng.gd - an experiment in Backbone to easily tell engagement stories

11 pointsby brandoncarlabout 12 years ago

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brandoncarlabout 12 years ago
Hi all - this is my first big project using a combination of MongoDB, S3, Node, Backbone and CoffeeScript. Big not in the sense of scale, but in the extra work that is involved in making an interface usable.<p>My goal was to create a site for couples to "bookmark" their engagement stories that was extremely easy to use. As such, the app focuses heavily on contenteditables and step-by-step instructions. Most notably is a "storybook" effect: user's photos are stored in color and black and white and "spring to life" on scrolling.<p>You can see our friends' story here as an example: <a href="http://www.eng.gd/8i4Q1d" rel="nofollow">http://www.eng.gd/8i4Q1d</a><p>Enjoy!
donutdan4114about 12 years ago
Not sure what the consensus of this will be, but if you are going to use a cool, short URL, don't put <i></i>www<i></i> in front of it.
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walkeabout 12 years ago
Hi brandoncarl,<p>Congrats on launching! It wasn't very clear to me that I should be hitting the space bar to move through a story. I was trying to read text while scrolling and kept asking "Why is this grayed out?!"<p>Otherwise, awesome!
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