I like the idea of voting to show how much people like a certain item, but if you use it to influence the rotation, in the long run you'll keep seeing the same content over and over.
You're right, I forgot that firefox remembers the zoom level for each page and when I go to another page/link in the same tab, the zoom level goes normal again. Good job FF.
Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.
One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too.
Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes?
If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
I wrote a similar thing into our project management system here at work. Whenever we receive notifications about a project or something, a little small quote like the ones you're publishing are added to the end of the e-mail...
It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).
So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}
Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 119 ms ] threadI thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.
I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.
A long, long time ago in this galaxy, this was the first program to run when a user logged in/opened a new terminal. Not on every system of course.
You should also consider making this a Twitter account. That's actually where IHQ has gotten the most traction.
Would you like to see it in a different format?
Until then, feel free to post suggestions here!
Here's a great collection of quotes: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Seneca
No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.
the font size does require me to "move my eyes" a lot to read longer phrases. i like how completely simple and to the point it is though.
it would be neat to let users submit their own inspirational nuggets - though you would probably have to review them to avoid misuse.
One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html
Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?
A: One less drunk.
On St. Patrick's day of all days :)
If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)
I like the idea of integrating with twitter, facebook, buzz, etc. I will be looking into it.
http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation
And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.
It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).
So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}
It seems like an overkill, though :-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=playe...
It blew me away.