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Show HN: My weekend project, TrickedOutTimeline
- maxjaderberg 15y agoand i hope a blog post coming soon on the awesomeness of google apps' image api!
- jcfrei 15y agoneat and simple - i like it! unfortunately I just changed my cover photo, so I'm gonna stick with it for a while.
- maxjaderberg 15y agothanks! there are so many crap fb tools out there we need something simple. need ideas for more effects to add though!
- nyellin 15y agoMake it more obvious that the buttons are clickable. I couldn't figure out how to sign up.
- maxjaderberg 15y agothanks for the feedback, i suspected that could be the case
- jentulman 15y agoNice, but I was just wondering are you keeping or dumping any images we upload? There's nothing in your terms relating to that. Not that I suspect you of anything nefarious, but it would be nice to see any (non)retention policy mentioned.
- maxjaderberg 15y agoYes the images get dumped after 30mins - shall add that to the TOS
- jentulman 15y agoCool, thanks for clearing that up.
- savrajsingh 15y agotook me a while to figure out what 'rip off' was (maybe call it 'torn bottom edge')
- maxjaderberg 15y agoyes may rename this to "torn edge"
- ddagradi 15y ago"Click the "Like" button to get your tricked out Facebook photos!" Nope. Closed the window, never going back. If I like your service, I'll tell my friends about it. I won't promote it just to try it out though. (Yes, I saw the "Already liked us?" button. It doesn't negate the intent to spam people's timelines.)
- SonicSoul 15y agoI have all apps disabled, so couldn't "like" even if i tried. did not see "already liked us" until i saw your comment, thanks.
- elisee 15y agoI concur. Requiring likes (in wording, even though technically there might be no enforcement) as a payment method for a service is a bad idea. The like is not customisable so you're basically putting words into your customer's mouth. I'm not sure how I feel about "Pay with a Tweet", but at least people can actually customize the message to reflect what they thought of the service. I would rephrase the "Already liked us?" to "Skip this step" or something like that.
- maxjaderberg 15y agoi do agree, but also eager to get the likes in. may a/b test like to download/suggeting a like after download.
- elisee 15y agoA/B testing is fine and all, but you might want to think of it from an ethical standpoint. Are you okay with requiring someone to shout "I like this service" to be able to use said service, on first use? Does it feel right to disclose the like requirement after the user has already put time in using the service? It sounds backwards to me at least and you're definitely alienating some people, but if you think it's no big deal then you're entitled to your own opinion.
- ddagradi 15y ago
- JosephRedfern 15y agoNice. You might want to give some more examples of what each setting does - as someone else mentioned, I wasn't sure what the "Rip Off" setting did.
- crikli 15y agoI had to come look at the comments here to figure out what this thing did. I'd suggest adding a red circle around the "ripped off" area to highlight what's actually happening. I had to think way too hard to puzzle out "Two for One" was. Don't ask me to like something before you've given it to me. Lame. Swap the order of the steps: first I upload my photo, then let me toggle between effects. Make the effect copy actionable. "Tear off the bottom edge" rather than "Rip Off". "Match my profile pic to my timeline photo" rather than "Two for one." Communication > cuteness.
- maxjaderberg 15y agothanks for your thoughts - will definitely implement some changes. doing the "like to download" as an experiment, may well take it off
- crikli 15y agoNo problem. It's a cool idea that could gain some traction. Don't be discouraged, HN is a tough crowd :)
- maxjaderberg 15y agothats why i love the feedback from here - its top quality ;)
- Void_ 15y agoGood luck with going viral. Let us know how did it do.
- ignoreme 15y agoI realize I'm not your target user-base, (I browse with no-script and don't own any social media accounts) but you should know that without javascript to load your fonts the default "cursive" font for most people is going to be (what appears to be) comic sans.... https://imgur.com/p1i6P https://imgur.com/p1i6P
- steve8918 15y agoYou really should give an example of the steps and what things will look like. I have no clue exactly what you're trying to do. My guess is to make the timeline look a bit fancy, but I can't tell. Your second step is to upload a photo without telling me what else to expect. If you ask for a credit card number in step 3, you already have my personal photo, which I have no clue what you'll do with.
- maxjaderberg 15y agohah yes you are right, thank you
- notJim 15y agoI have a vague sense of what the service does after several minutes of staring at it: it appears to either make your cover photo look like the bottom was torn off (why??) or it can make it look like your profile photo is part of your cover photo (which is kind of cool.) To the OP: I would provide larger example images that show what this is and why I care. Also, it took me several minutes to figure out what to click on, as someone else in this thread pointed out.
- PaulMest 15y agoIt seems odd that you want something to go viral, but you explicitly request people not to share it without checking with you first. From your Terms & Conditions: "You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without trickedouttimeline.com’s prior written consent."
- hammock 15y agoI uploaded a huge hi-res image, did the two-for-one, and the output images it gave me were horrible quality! What happened? Cool idea though.
- dskang 15y agoIn your TOS: You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without trickedouttimeline.com’s prior written consent. Why would you want this?