This weekend I'm at a hackday and the theme is 'dreams', My dream is to get people working on what they love and find inspiration, I find my inspiration in the people around me and the people doing what I want to do, so we asked 30 friends 6 questions each and put the results online, we've had an amazing response with some really thoughtful answers and now we've opened it up to everyone, we've got about 3 hours left before we have to present the hack and I'd love to reach 100 responses (we currently have 50).
It uses twitter bootstrap as a default and I know that HN is getting a bit sick of it but it makes knocking up something quickly so easy and for hackdays I really thing it's perfect.
We've got about 4 features to implement as well so I'll be checking back whilst we code :)
Cool, nice work. I think the "I do blah" can be awkward but I like the focus.
For fun, my friend and I made a similar site called http://threeabout.me (profile example: http://threeabout.me/max). It's centered around describing yourself with the three most important things you want people to know about you.
I think we both desire some kind of online profile that has limits, kind of like describing yourself in a tweet.
It's not aimed so much about having an online profile for yourself with constraints, but to inspire others and be inspired yourself. Three about me looks neat though, interesting to see how creative people can be when constrained in describing themselves.
Nice idea.Greatly executed.Clean design.
But I have very small doubt. When people say this is 3 hour project and weekend project, do they mean buying the domain and hosting solution and deploying along with coding the website.All of those tasks fall into that 3 hrs or that weekend? I understand that this is done in hack day competition and my question may not apply to this case, but what is it in general
Really cool idea. It's a lot of fun just randomly browsing around and reading peoples' stories.
Tiny annoyance: the line-height: 36px (application.css:23) makes wrapped section headings look strange. One simple fix is to replace that with margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px;.
Beautiful. Simple, does what it does, clean layout. Really nice.
Would be cool to be able to search by what people do as well as names, unless it's there and I'm just missing it. I'd like to see what other people doing (say, software development) have to say.
We've not added the ability to search by "do" yet, but if you view someone's profile and click on their "do" activity it'll list all other users with that "do" entered. I'll stick the searching on the todo list. :-)
I'd like to be able to browse random people easier. A big "Show me another!" button would be cool. Then I could just sit there and while away the hours reading random thoughts from random people.
I had a similar idea rumbling around my head for a few months now (basically "I live here and I do X"), but the twist you've added of making it stories about people is nice.
Good ideas thanks. Geographic location would definitely be interesting, I'll put it on the todo list. And I've tweaked the wording of the friends panel if it's empty. Knew we'd overlook something!
This weekend I'm at a hackday and the theme is 'dreams', My dream is to get people working on what they love and find inspiration, I find my inspiration in the people around me and the people doing what I want to do, so we asked 30 friends 6 questions each and put the results online, we've had an amazing response with some really thoughtful answers and now we've opened it up to everyone, we've got about 3 hours left before we have to present the hack and I'd love to reach 100 responses (we currently have 50).
It uses twitter bootstrap as a default and I know that HN is getting a bit sick of it but it makes knocking up something quickly so easy and for hackdays I really thing it's perfect.
We've got about 4 features to implement as well so I'll be checking back whilst we code :)