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Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

31 points by ubuwaits 12y ago

nsfmc 12y ago
exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards). One (or two) suggestions for qvotr: it would be nice if the front page had popular/hot quotes listed, so that others can take a sort of read of the 'quote landscape.' it's not clear from the outset what the 'tone' of the site is, is it inspirational quotes, insights, all of the above, etc. Second suggestion is to let the quotes breathe a bit more. they're really cramped in there so the overall effect is sorta meat-market-like. Neat project, excited to see where it goes!
- ubuwaits 12y ago
  Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well. Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment. And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!
  - GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
    I'd just like to add more weight to the "Let the quotes breathe more". As soon as a page of quotes loaded up, my TL;DR alarm was firing, but after ignoring that and reading a few in isolation it was pretty cool.
esperluette 12y ago
Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.
- onlyafly 12y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?
  - esperluette 12y ago
    I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)
ozh 12y ago
This is excitingly promising. Needs a Firefox extension, though :)
- ozh 12y ago
  Also, 2 little CSS/JS glitches: on FF (latest, Windows) the closing quote is ill positioned and the popup stuff for "Share" and "Delete" links is off by a couple pixels, see http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png
- ozh 12y ago
  Another thing: once logged in, I cannot find a way back to the Chrome extension. There should be some "tools" page or something :)
amrrs 12y ago
Nice, but it'd be great if displaying same quote more than one time in the newsfeed could be avoided :)
- ubuwaits 12y ago
  Yup, definitely something we'll fix as soon as possible.

31 points by ubuwaits 12y ago

nsfmc 12y ago

exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards). One (or two) suggestions for qvotr: it would be nice if the front page had popular/hot quotes listed, so that others can take a sort of read of the 'quote landscape.' it's not clear from the outset what the 'tone' of the site is, is it inspirational quotes, insights, all of the above, etc. Second suggestion is to let the quotes breathe a bit more. they're really cramped in there so the overall effect is sorta meat-market-like. Neat project, excited to see where it goes!

ubuwaits 12y ago
Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well. Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment. And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!
- GotAnyMegadeth 12y ago
  I'd just like to add more weight to the "Let the quotes breathe more". As soon as a page of quotes loaded up, my TL;DR alarm was firing, but after ignoring that and reading a few in isolation it was pretty cool.

esperluette 12y ago

Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-( Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.

onlyafly 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?
- esperluette 12y ago
  I'd search it for new words to add to Wordnik. :-)

ozh 12y ago

This is excitingly promising. Needs a Firefox extension, though :)

ozh 12y ago
Also, 2 little CSS/JS glitches: on FF (latest, Windows) the closing quote is ill positioned and the popup stuff for "Share" and "Delete" links is off by a couple pixels, see http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png
ozh 12y ago
Another thing: once logged in, I cannot find a way back to the Chrome extension. There should be some "tools" page or something :)

amrrs 12y ago

Nice, but it'd be great if displaying same quote more than one time in the newsfeed could be avoided :)

ubuwaits 12y ago
Yup, definitely something we'll fix as soon as possible.