Sort of - YouTube started out as a Hot or Not with video.
"Chad and Steve agree that Karim deserves credit for the early idea that became, in Steve's words, "the original goal that we were working toward in the very beginning": a video version of HOTorNOT.com"
Great idea. However, from an implementation perspective, it's a little hard to tell what's going on with all the flashing images. Maybe show the first image by default, then wait for a mouseover or something to activate the animated gif.
Agreed - if the author was trying to highlight the kinds of things available on archive.org, it didn't quite work for me. Instead it just was a jumbled pile of images...
Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. I haven't actually done any guerilla UI testing, I just shipped the code earlier today and went to bed haha.
I really want people to get "hooked" right off the bat on the homepage, so, I will try to come up with a better solution later tomorrow. I was initially gonna do mouseovers like above, but didn't feel that would work on mobile.
My friend also has his webcam take a selfie everytime he ships! haha it's so funny seeing him run through the images of his different facial expressions while working on a project
Really motivating, thanks!
Also makes me miss the layout practices circa 2008 — a simple ~800px centered container, plain & simple. No responsive Bootstrap-style voodoo, no fancy & bloated javascript extras.
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[ 5.6 ms ] story [ 75.6 ms ] threadReally insightful visualization.
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Here is a list of 20 (now) huge sites from when they launched. Apple and Twitter are particularly amusing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...
"Chad and Steve agree that Karim deserves credit for the early idea that became, in Steve's words, "the original goal that we were working toward in the very beginning": a video version of HOTorNOT.com"
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570795...
Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.
I really want people to get "hooked" right off the bat on the homepage, so, I will try to come up with a better solution later tomorrow. I was initially gonna do mouseovers like above, but didn't feel that would work on mobile.
Here's AirBnB's for example: http://bakztfuture.github.io/startuptimelines/airbnb/index.h...
https://www.airbnb.com/
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Enter your email here to get notified when new Startup Timelines are posted: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12gf3IJkzIal7qUT8Ts7Peuu4HPe... I wanted to include it somewhere on the homepage, but didn't want it to get too crammed.
I also thought it'd be a good idea to open source the background research I used here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ri8JZtBPNyofw91eL1Es...
I'm here now if you guys have any further questions!