This was inspired by Upworthy's advice [0] that for you to discover the best headline for your content, you must force yourself to write 25 of them and the best will jump out at you.<p>So yeah, you can do this in a text editor, or a spreadsheet, or whatever, but I had a spare evening and I wanted to cut my teeth on Facebook's React JS library. I picked a simple example and set to work. The end result is this little app. I like the idea of distraction-free writing, and a simple list-style app with no visual clutter seemed like a nice environment to write headlines.<p>I got a jump-start by looking at the React TodoMVC example [1], then creating a simple build process with grunt & browserify (which I've now extracted into a starter project for others to use [2]). I have to say I really like React and a lot of the design decisions it's made, although writing in the pseudo-JS syntax (JSX) took a little getting used to, but was made easier with a code highlighting plugin for Sublime.<p>Have a play, and let me know what you think!<p>http://colin-gourlay.com/25headlines/<p>[0]: http://www.slideshare.net/Upworthy/upworthy-10-ways-to-win-the-internets<p>[1]: http://todomvc.com/labs/architecture-examples/react/<p>[2]: https://github.com/colingourlay/grunt-init-browserify-react-stylus
Nice work. I skimmed too quick and thought your app was going to provide me with 25 headlines when I paste a youtube link. Talk about a challenge.<p>You've got a really neat interface, I like it. I also read on Quora about upworthy's headline generation process, it's fascinating.
Looks good to me! I went straight to the site without reading your post and was confused about what I was supposed to be doing, but I did come up with some some silly headlines.