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sauerbraten
I thought this would look for words in your text that make for a good hashtag, e.g. converting "you only live once" to "#yolo", and make hashtags from nouns but not verbs and commonly used words. Unfortunately it seems to just put a "#" in front of every word, which (for me) isn't even worth it to go to that website, type my text, copy it over to twitter/instagram, paste it, then send it.
dwaltrip
I think the main point of the site is the list of hashtag suggestions below your freshly hashtag-prefxed content. Mildly interesting idea, however the suggestions I got with a few tests weren't that awe-inspiring.
jschulenklopper
In what way does this help people with hashtags? What problem is adressed? Just by looking at the use of hashtags by my non-technical acquaintances on Twitter or Facebook, nobody seems to have a problem with them. #confused

Idea for your next website: de-hashtagify a text. Implementation: something like s/#//g on the input text.

nicholassmith
#satire #tongue-in-cheek.

I imagine it's in response to the fact people are hashtagging everything.

esusatyo
the developer here: yes, that is what it's about :)
gantengx
#you #forgot #to #hashtag #your #comments #lol
nicholassmith
It's an excellent riposte to the frankly silly amounts of hash tagging that's now occurring. I personally blame Instagram for it as the root cause.
esusatyo
yeah, if there's enough people who are confused about what this is about, I might write a blog post about it.
jschulenklopper
Yeah, thought about that too. Not very effective satire then, because this HN-announcement and the tweets by the developers don't give any hint that this is to be considered a joke. (Even though they would want it to appear as such by now.)

Well, another example covered by Poe's law.

nicholassmith
I got that it was a joke straight away, maybe the humour hasn't carried well across the medium.
tjosten
Putting a # in front of every word is not exactly what hashtags are meant to be for.
gantengx
That's the joke :p
imdsm
It's just not a very good one really, with all due respect.
JonnieCache
Satire requires a bit more groundwork than this really.
daGrevis
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when there are 3+ hashtags?
kamakazizuru
i dont get it. is this meant to be humorous? also - why did it take 3 people to build this?
logn
Yes, I don't get it either. I guess that with the web now, this is what it looks like as people learn programming? I know for me my thrill in programming growing up was to write some dumb game that worked on console and then convince my parents and friends to use it. I guess this is the equivalent? The fun thing these days, you can get thousands of users and maybe do something with it other than immediately discard it. So, I see these as Hello Worlds to the next level.
petercooper
#This #might #be #a #joke #but #there's #actually #a #lot #of #fun #work #to #be #had #in #building #systems #that #can #auto-tag #text #(or #"auto #classification" #in #the #pre-hashtag #era #;-)).
dlsym
The $('.pure-g h3.l-hashtags')-Headline is driving me insane.

I guess this is not satire, since this tool suggests some tags. (I guess the hashtagging of every word is just a little side-joke.)

danmaz74
Shameless plug: if you really need something that can help you with hashtags, you can try my http://hashtagify.me/
esusatyo
developer here: Can't believe I met you here :) your domain was the first one that we wanted to buy but isn't available.
danmaz74
It's a little world ;)

PS: Please, don't sue me, I'm still bootstrapping :D