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Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com
- tim_church 17y agoFYI - I created this simple site for myself. I use it as my homepage to get a little motivational reminder every time I open a new tab. I thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.
- vrotaru 17y agoLooks like fortune for the web. Are you using fortune as a backend, or for quotes?
- tim_church 17y agoNo, I had actually never heard of fortune, but I will look into it now :) I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.
- vrotaru 17y ago> I had actually never heard of fortune 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.
- JeremyChase 17y agoStill does on all my systems.
- anshul 17y agoStill the default on Slackware.
- nfnaaron 17y agoComputers compress everything, including the time it takes to feel like an old fart.
- mapleoin 17y agoI was just thinking about that and making my own website using fortune. You spoiled the surprise.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoI did put fortune on the web already, complete with an API that you can call from your .bashrc. http://www.iheartquotes.com http://www.iheartquotes.com You should also consider making this a Twitter account. That's actually where IHQ has gotten the most traction.
- dugmartin 17y agoNice.
- ananthrk 17y agoCool. Mind sharing the list of quotes you use as a single file? :)
- tim_church 17y agoYou can see all the quotes here - http://www.minimotivation.com/quotes.php http://www.minimotivation.com/quotes.php Would you like to see it in a different format?
- ananthrk 17y agoThanks.
- bgraves 17y agoHow about a simple voting mechanism which will display more popular quotes more frequently?
- malloreon 17y agoI 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.
- andrewdavey 17y agoI like it. Thanks! A way to link to a specific quote/video/etc would be great for sharing with others.
- tim_church 17y agoI was thinking about adding a permalink. I'll do that now. Thanks.
- jmonegro 17y agoMake it so that I can click the content instead of scrolling down to click a small link lost in a corner.
- Pistos2 17y agoFunny, I didn't even notice that link until several F5s later. Nevertheless, yours is a good suggestion.
- Lorin 17y agoMake this into a chrome extension as an addition to the default "new tab" page :)
- Lorin 17y agoannd you've inspired me towards a new idea, hooray!
- shin_lao 17y agoI like it. What about Star Trek quotes ? :p
- secos 17y agoNice! Is there a way to suggest quotes?
- tim_church 17y agoNot yet, but I'd like to add it. Until then, feel free to post suggestions here!
- bgraves 17y agoI've always been a fan of Seneca, the Roman philosopher and Stoic. Here's a great collection of quotes: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Seneca http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Seneca
- passthesalt 17y agoHey good job, really like it!
- known 17y ago+1
- aw3c2 17y agoThe text is way too big for me to easily read it.
- arnorhs 17y agoIt would be great to be able to adjust the font size...?
- tim_church 17y agoProbably not the solution you are looking for, but you can always use your browser to zoom out or make the text smaller.
- arnorhs 17y agoYou'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.
- csomar 17y agoCtr - - -
- aw3c2 17y agoI was giving feedback. I know how to use my browser but that is hardly convenient. ;-)
- NEPatriot 17y agohave you thought about automatically updating the quotes every 10-15 seconds?
- raluxgaza 17y agoYes, simple and straight to the point. Good going matey
- paraschopra 17y agoGreat, don't take any suggestions from here. The app looks perfect, but it would have been fantastic if you had an API interface :) No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.
- empire29 17y agoNice concept and i like the simple execution. 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.
- mrduncan 17y agoLooks 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 http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png
- tim_church 17y agoAdded the attribution and link to XKCD. I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html http://xkcd.com/license.html
- mrduncan 17y agoAwesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!
- wildmXranat 17y agoReminded me of fortune , so I typed it into a terminal and got: 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 :)
- ankit_ 17y agoLove 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)
- tim_church 17y agoYes, I am manually adding the content. I like the idea of integrating with twitter, facebook, buzz, etc. I will be looking into it.
- chanux 17y agoNice. And added to my little inspiration collection :) http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.
- tim_church 17y agoThanks! And nice collection.
- arnorhs 17y agoGood job! I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.
- arnorhs 17y agoI 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"} It seems like an overkill, though :-)
- mikecane 17y agoIs 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?
- csomar 17y agoRefresh the page? Why not use jQuery Ajax function to call the server side script.
- jmhobbs 17y agoCool, looks similar to something I made last month :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/ http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/
- richardburton 17y agoThis video just came up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=playe... It blew me away.
- sw1205 17y agoThis is just brilliant! Great work! I think you should be able to click the quote to go to the next one rather than having to go to the bottom of the page and click refresh. Other than that I loved it!
- faramarz 17y agoThanks! My new homepage :)
- faramarz 17y agoAlso, please don't stop adding to the collection. I'm a serious fan.
- tim_church 17y agoThanks! I really appreciate the encouragement. I plan to keep adding to the collection. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them here. Cheers.
- jmonegro 17y agoLet users submit their own quotes.
- kristofferR 17y agoAwesome site, I absolutely love it. The only problem is that there isn't enough quotes, I think you should add a lot more. I collect quotes and have quite a collection of good ones. Here are my favorite quotes, a lot of them would fit great on minimotivation.com: http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html
- tim_church 17y agoGreat list! I will be adding several of those to minimotivation.com. Thanks.
- dzlobin 17y agoI like the site, nice and simple. My only question is where do the quotes come from? I hit f5 too fast before noticing one of the quotes was by "Heywood Jablowme"