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Review my website: Cornify (cornify.com)

61 points by Cornify ↗ HN
Cornify is all about giving internet users choice of customization. MySpace is a great example of a successful company with a similar vision. Facebook with its Windows 3.1 look - not so much. Cornify provides a service that allows users to cover any website in a beautiful array of unicorn and rainbow imagery - taking back the web one 'corn at a time.

To give credit where credit is due, this concept was heavily inspired by AddThis.

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jws
I must agree, this is the number one unicorns and rainbow adding site on the internet. I am disappointed that they don't frolic about and they appear blind the concept of whitespace areas, perhaps in the "pro" edition.

I am also a bit ashamed that I executed a stranger's Javascript in my Hacker News context. Who knows what just happened to my cookie? (Ok, I just read the URL and I'm safe, at least for the javascript present the instant I downloaded it.)

Cornify
Sorry to disappoint you. We're focusing on "less is more" and after long debates we decided that frolicing was something our users could live without. We take your feedback serious and if there is more user request, we will certainly be open to a later implementation.
jhickner
It does exactly what it says it will, and it does it with style.

Highly recommended. Would corn again.

jff
I almost cried when a unicorn covered up the "cornify" button and I had to stop.
bk
I was wondering if that's a bug or a feature...
jrichmond
Do you have firebug installed?

for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { cornify_add() }

callmeed
I've got a fever ... and the only cure is more unicorns.
cjoh
This is bound to "go viral" and have "organic growth"

If I were you I'd start seeking VC immediately. At the end of the day, this idea is so simple, so uniquely brilliant and really well executed that you can worry about a business model after you're done acquiring users.

BRILLIANT!

Cornify
No worries, the business model is fully thought through. We're expecting to be profitable in phase 3.
mixmax
ten year old girls is definitely an untapped market opportunity just waiting for monetary exploitation by devious but brilliant entrepreneurs eager to enhance shareholder value.

I'm sure Mattell are shaking in their pants, knowing that their core market is about to be exploited heavily by a soon to be funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and quickly acquired by Google, company much more aligned with web 2.0 and an uncanny ability to align the interests of multiple stakeholders in the fast changing world of international webcommerce.

cmos
yea, I like the glitter! If I could move them around, and if I kept clicking the button they popped up, that would be super cool.

Also, perhaps after overuse, it showed the occasional raincloud?

jhickner
Definitely, the first thing I tried to do was drag them around. +1 for that feature!
RiderOfGiraffes
I'm obviously doing something wrong. Nothing happens when I click the button, and I can't drag the link at right to my toolbar. I spent 3 minutes trying all sorts of things, and have given up.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I'm using IE7 on Windows XP Home, and I have JavaScript turned on. I don't see unicorns, glitter, or any changes.

Cornify
Sorry. Will fix this issue asap.
tower10
IE7 doesn't allow bookmarklets to be dragged to the Links toolbar, presumably due to the security risk. Instead, right-click and Add to favorites...
RiderOfGiraffes
I've added it to favorites, but it's still the case that nothing's happening. I click on the link at the left, and nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? What should happen when I click on the link at left?

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psyklic
This should've been "Review my STARTUP"!
diN0bot
this is kind of cute, but not entertaining enough to make the lack of intellectual interestingness worthwhile. execution ok but not stellar: graphics are large and invasive.

with a little thought this could have been cute. inject the images into the dom, maybe to replace advertisements or brighten logos. do a little data mining or randomness to inject stormclouds every-so-often. do something cute when used on weather sites.

sam_in_nyc
It's all fun and games until you execute this on facebook and the Unicorns steal your cookie and hijack your account.

Yes, bookmarklets can do that.

volida
am I missing something?
sgk284
A lot of the comments here seem to be enjoying the joke and having fun, but shouldn't we take the review requests on HN a little more seriously? It's the only resource on the web that allows for this form of quality feedback from such great talent and experience as is present on HN. I'd just hate to start seeing it abused, and then fade away as people stop paying attention to the review requests.

edit: Or maybe I should just cornify my site :-)

psyklic
Take a look at Cornify's comments ;-)

If the site is a serious venture, then review requests here do seem to be taken seriously ...

tdavis
Feature request: Additional pictures, please. You do not have a suitable variety to satiate my thirst for Unicorns and rainbows.

Additionally, a Unicorn puking rainbows would make me invest.

yef
How about putting [joke] or something in the title, so those of us short on time can skip it?
jskopek
Normally I'd agree with you, but this is a 10 second diversion, and you have to be a robot not to find the concept cute and unique.
ezequiel
I ro-bot. Still find joke fu-nny.
jackowayed
an "uncornify" bookmarklet might be nice. As much as I "love" the cornification, sometimes it blocks something important.
tlrobinson
I made a bookmarklet:

javascript:if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}else{cornify_add()};

First click loads it, subsequent clicks add a new image.

Now you can Cornify Hacker News too! http://skitch.com/tlrobinson/bddmx/hacker-news-cornified

talleyrand
Some support please! I can't get the bookmarklet to work (it just loads the text of the url) and I MUST HAVE A CORNIFY BOOMARKLET! Thanks.
tlrobinson
What browser? I only tested on Safari. Try this:

    javascript:(function(){if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){
    document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src=
    'http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}
    else{cornify_add()}})();
(remove the newlines)
nirmal
Hilarious stuff. I know a lot of people who would enjoy this if it also dropped Hello Kitty all over the page. :)
sangaya
I actually thought it was quite the fun idea. My only suggestions are to increase the number of pictures (and thus the cuteness) as well as allow for the pictures to be dragged around. I don't want to stop clicking "cornify" if the button gets covered up :)