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Instant Motivation
- tferris 14y agoWhat font did you use?
- Sodaware 14y agoIt's the "Avenir" family of fonts.
- Killah911 14y agoIt repeats the same motivational messages, maybe it would be better if it just ran out...
- scottmagdalein 14y agoNah, just need more messages.
- derekflanzraich 14y agoWe're working on it! Lots more to be added thanks to some awesome submissions.
- fourstar 14y agoThe whole thing is a marketing gimmick anyway, since the OP runs the blog that you go to when you click on "I'm motivated". It's probably like that by design.
- tedmiston 14y agoFunny you mention that. When I'm motivated, I just close it.
- scottmagdalein 14y agoVery nice. Bookmarked! (I don't have many bookmarks, so this is a prestigious position in my browser.)
- james-fend 14y agoThank you. This has become my one and only default homepage that I open up starting each day.
- pavs 14y agoMy personal fav: http://minimotivation.com/ http://minimotivation.com/
- jrogers65 14y agoThis is brilliant. The irony is subtle but it's completely brilliant. "Do more by reading quotes which might encourage you to do more instead of actually doing more."
- mistercow 14y agoThe HN title is incorrect; instantmotivation.com is a squatter. It should be instamotivation.com
- shocks 14y agoPretty cool. Could be improved with a fading background and keeping the bottom links in the same place when progressing. :)
- uberc 14y agoFun. Would be nice to have a way to attribute the quotes, so you show quotes from notable people. Sometimes a quote is inspiring for who says it as much as for what it says.
- muratmutlu 14y agoDoes any know if there are any scripts/css around that could help me create something like this? I'm more of a tinkerer than a coder
- krapp 14y agoI was just thinking a hackernews userscript that tossed these up somewhere in the layout might be good, given the audience. The core of it's just picking a random quote from an array so it should be simple. You could select lines or quotes from users and add them to the queue with LocalStorage or something. I am now apparently working on this...
- muratmutlu 14y agohaha look forward to seeing it! Letme know when you get it up and running @mutlu82
- krapp 14y agoSince it looks like this is going to take a while (long long long after anyone will care), here's where I am now: https://gist.github.com/4220255 https://gist.github.com/4220255 All it does is take a random quote from the array and stick it in an extra table row, and there's a link that alerts text selected by the mouse (which is currently pointless) and I need to do all the localstorage stuff but yeah.
- EragonJ 14y agoPretty cool idea to change background color with meaningful quotes! easy but inspiring for lives! maybe you can try to enhance it by adding more quotes and making the relationship between quotes and colors.
- joshbert 14y agoI'm wondering if maybe by getting these kinds of instant motivation bursts you're attacking a symptom instead of the problem.
- yuxt 14y agoIt would be good to have an API so it can be combined with Pomodoro widgets.
- sgt101 14y agoI like the colours - how do you come up with colours that look stylish like these, but aren't garish or crude?
- lcculhane 14y agoThese colors are from Greatist's Brand Guidelines!
- shakeel_mohamed 14y agoMind blowing! Last night I thought of building the same thing with user submitted content. But, I was going to use the domain motivation.io (as in input/output). Great minds think alike, I suppose :)
- septerr 14y agoWith so much inspiration floating around (and fixed to every wall in the office), I find http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html refreshing.
- Coko 14y agoMy friend and I made something similar, for photographers: http://www.youknowyoureaphotographerwhen.com http://www.youknowyoureaphotographerwhen.com
- geekgirlweb 14y agoNice! Are the background images huge? They took a long time to load :(
- Coko 14y agoThe background images are user submitted, but we limit to 400kB to keep a good quality, these are photographers after all ;)