Weekend Project
Consumer and social
random image browser
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interest in saving and voting on interesting images
From 1 comment
I got a sneak preview, so I'll just say what I've already said. There needs to be a way to save interesting ones for other people to look through, vote on, and comment on. Here,…
btilly on HN
Objections
Shows NSFW images without enough warning
From 2 comments
Why would you post these links of NSFW images here?
Garbage on HNYou should probably remove those NSFW ones. They don't add to the comment and could get someone fired since the NSFW warning is not prominent, and the images are not "girl in…
brador on HN
Random id checks skip real images that match the 404 image size
From 1 comment
The code composes random strings, and checks whether the returned image is the size of imgur's 404. So real images of that exact shape and size will also be skipped.
btilly on HN
Requests
Save interesting images to share, vote on, and comment on
From 1 comment
I got a sneak preview, so I'll just say what I've already said. There needs to be a way to save interesting ones for other people to look through, vote on, and comment on. Here,…
btilly on HN
Include imgur post titles
From 1 comment
The title of imgur posts are sometimes an important lead-in for the content, so you might want to include those.
waffle_ss on HN
Questions
Is it just composing random strings and checking whether an image exists?
From 1 comment
Are you just composing random strings and checking if an image exists at the URL?
sbarre on HN
Alternatives named
Scraping Stack Overflow for random content
From 1 comment
You could just scrape stackoverflow? ;)
brador on HN