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Ask HN: Review my weekend project - TVmemes.com

9 points by jiggity ↗ HN
Hi all! We cooked this project up on Thurs/Fri in time for ROFLcon. It was an experiment in Memetic Television.

TL/DR: It's like lolcats but for TV.

Looking for some usability feedback / general impressions / feature requests! Appreciate the HN crowd taking the time to check it out.

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jiggity
Clickable: http://tvmemes.com
jiggity
Longer Rationale:

Memes arise because of shared experiences. Lolcats are funny because people think kittens are cute. TV shows provide excellent content because millions of people watch these shows everyday.

We can even imagine why TV memes might be funnier. When you see a meme based on your favorite show, it is funnier because you have three seasons worth of character development.

My personal favs: http://tvmemes.com/?comic=122 http://tvmemes.com/?comic=119 http://tvmemes.com/?comic=84

hajrice
I love it. I just made a few, and tbh there's some pretty funny stuff on there!

What did you build this in btw?

jiggity
We tried out Kohana, a php framework based off of CodeIgniter. Worked like a charm, really fast dev time.
hajrice
I've worked in KO3, it's awesome!
jeremyisatmit
haha I love it! Already sunk a bunchof time looking at some of the funny comics and making some. I think this could be really popular because images like this are already starting to show up on the web... Have a proliferation strategy? :)
jiggity
Yup! We figure we'll target fans of these shows who'll identify most with the characters.
stryker
Looks pretty cool :D Keep me updated!
cameronl
cool! is there a way we can vote on individual memes to get the best ones to the top? some sort of vote per impression metric...
jiggity
We've got a few ideas on how to make browsing fresh and interesting for each new visit.

For the minimum viable product, we determined randomized browsing was enough to get a taste of the experience.