Put your side project on my side project's home page
Hey IH,
I just spent the last few weeks developing this site. One of the features that I thought would be interesting to have is a'Graffiti' feature. It allows any user to put their message and/or link on the home page indefinitely until the next person 'graffitis' over it. It's essentially a free form of advertising. I may monetize this feature down the road, but right now it wouldn't make sense. It's entirely free.
Besides that, it's kind of like Instagram and Hacker News put together. There's a 'Top' and a 'New' page for the most recently liked and newest posts, similar to HN. The layout is similar to Instagram, but Splindid supports text and link-only posts in addition to photos.
I don't know exactly how I'm going to monetize it yet. Right now and for the next few weeks I'll be trying to get people in front of it to see whether they use it or find value in it. I'm seeking feedback too, so please roast it as much as you like. :)
I just want to acknowledge that there's a picture of a white N64 and I had no idea they made them in white. #til
That's one of my N64 mods; I replaced the red LED with a blue one and spray painted the console and controller cases white. 👾
It looks sick. I hope you still have it.
OK, I tried to post using the homepage but I got the "File Uploaded Successfully" message, and then it didn't redirect me or show me to new post. So I navigated to the dashboard and used that form to post my graffiti instead. Nice site though, I hope it blows up.
Cool idea, I was going to add mine but your page is filled with skater images right now hah. Are those just placeholders you used? Perhaps put some generic startup images or apps instead to make it clearer to people what it's for.
Yeah they are, haha. I was up super late last night adding all the old photos from my Facebook. I’ll upload some more startup-ish ones tonight. 👍🏻
OK! That's looking better. Perhaps you can add a badge or some text in the box to indicate the category?
Nice idea :)
Tried to post one of mine, but got this: https://ibb.co/cqOaVH
Thanks😁
Were you uploading a GIF? I had this error on a few GIFs that I uploaded; for some reason some GIFs work and others don’t. I’ll work on fixing it tonight.👍🏻
Nope. It was a .png file
Figured out the problem. :) It’s fixed now👍🏻
Interesting idea... How are you going to prevent malicious users from putting up things like pornography and hate speech?
That’s a really good question. It would be a perfect opportunity to build/implement some machine learning classifiers to filter out that sort of stuff. I’m sure there are some off the shelf classsifiers I could use too. In the meantime I could build a flagging/report abuse feature.
I would start with the flagging / report abuse feature. It seems like a good way to have something in place for if a problem crops up. Going the machine learning route seems like an overkill solution to something that's not a problem yet. :)