Ask HN: Review my webapp: hapylink.com

Minor tweak: When clicking the input box, I'd like the ghost text, '<a href="http://'" rel="nofollow">http://'</a>, to be removed. Since I've already copied the URL I want to make happy, when I paste it I produce: <a href="http://http://urltomakehappy.com" rel="nofollow">http://http://urltomakehappy.com</a>, It'd be nice to not have to manually remove that first <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a>

First, I'm a big fan of your flagship product. I use it on my site and told most of the Upper East Side about the joy Cornify has brought into my life.<p>Second, can I get some account information - say, analytics when I create an account with happylink?<p>If I'm going to be spreading happiness, I want to measure it.

There's a meta keywords entry but no content. They're not that important nowadays, but you might as well fill it in.<p>You could do with a bookmarklet to make generating links easier.<p>Perhaps you could add a feature to allow URLs to be prefixed by <a href="http://hapylink.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hapylink.com/</a> to then change them into the final link. For example: <a href="http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hapylink.com/http://www.foxnews.com/</a> would return a page with the resulting Hapylink. Diggbar does it like this and makes it so easy to use.<p>Could you make the resulting links /slightly/ shorter (optionally, perhaps)? I'd like to use this on Twitter but Twitter would shorten (or at least truncate) these URLs again as they're a bit long, I think.<p>A logo would be cool.

It's a nice idea, but <i>please</i> remove the background image, it makes my eyes bleed. Your main website at <a href="http://www.cornify.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cornify.com/</a> has a much better design.

I like it, a nice example of how you can run with an idea and get something cool out the other end quickly using today's frameworks etc.<p>But where are the kittens?

Hilarious. I love it.

Awesome. On Cornify, if you click the button five times, every piece of text gets a very happy modifier. I derive much pleasure from this.<p>Will Hapylink ever add the same functionality? Because it would probably end war and hunger.

Finally, a layer of indirection even joshu can feel happy about.

Another link "shortener" service? Don't we have enough of those in all their different shapes and colors?<p>No thanks.

MORE HAPPINESS NEEDED :)

Pretty cool but your target audience - current or former drug users - is going to be a difficult one to monetize.

Cornify is kinda fun... what is the point of Happylink?

I’m always amazed by people who spend time doing this kind of application. I wish I had that spare time.