My weekend project
Consumer and social
home shopping visualiser
SHOW HN2011
179points
51comments
#41of 1,097 in 2011
Top 4%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 5 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clever and well executed idea
From 3 comments
Wicked idea, nicely executed, wish I'd thought of it!
JonoW on HNGood idea and great execution. What else can this type of app be applied to?
IanDrake on HNAwesomely clever. Can you do something about the browser history bloat? A couple drags of the slider and I'm stuck on the page forever, that might piss people off.
beezee on HN
Good for comparing furniture and art placement ideas
From 2 comments
Make this for furniture and you will be rich. You could estimate sizes based on perspective.
nodata on HNMy wife is a hobbyist artist and is thinking of displaying some of her art work in online shops. SHe was talking last week about a technology such as this that would enable her…
krmmalik on HN
Objections
Site flagged by antivirus and Websense as malicious due to an iframe
From 3 comments
This site just triggered my anti-virus, any one else?
MattBearman on HNIt might be because of the iframe which loads a script from http://golden-corps.com. The website is dead so I'm not sure what its there for.
Popcorned23 on HNI received: "The Websense category 'Malicious Web Sites' is filtered."
dabent on HN
Browser history bloat from slider
From 2 comments
Awesomely clever. Can you do something about the browser history bloat? A couple drags of the slider and I'm stuck on the page forever, that might piss people off.
beezee on HNGood point. Didn't think about it, thanks. I removed the hash update for the time being.
weirdcat on HN
Requests
Allow resizing the TV by dragging its corner
From 2 comments
Nice work. The first thing I tried was to drag the corner of the TV, to make it bigger. Is it possible to add this feature?
gus_massa on HNThis is actually something I've removed in the process, trying to simplify things.
weirdcat on HN
Compare two sizes side by side
From 1 comment
I'd love to see a compare feature. For example, someone with a 40" screen might want to see how that compares to a 60" screen. Right now, you can drag back and forth to try and…
biot on HN
Projector recommendations for large screens
From 2 comments
When you reach over 80" you should switch to recommending projectors. For example, I have a 120" screen and a Panasonic AE200U projector.
asnyder on HNYeah, that's definitely in the plans. I'm a projector guy myself. :)
weirdcat on HN
Augmented reality via phone camera
From 3 comments
Seeing the title, I thought this was like SnapShop (http://www.snapshopinc.com/), where you hold your iPhone, point at the wall, and you see the picture with the TV added, as in…
alain94040 on HNI expected a VR-type application where you have a reference something the user has to place on his wall and then he can move backwards, film the wall and see the device rendered…
aw3c2 on HNI did think of that, but that would be quite tougher to build and hardly a weekend thing.
weirdcat on HN
Questions
How much affiliate revenue is made
From 3 comments
are you going to tell us how much you make on affiliate sales?
ed209 on HN+1 for this. I'd be really interested to see what kind of return you can get on this kind of site.
spobin on HNI don't expect much really, but who knows, maybe I'm totally wrong and it buys me a jet. We'll see. :) I'll probably cook up a blog post about the experience and post it here.
weirdcat on HN
How the sofa and art display feature is achieved
From 1 comment
My wife is a hobbyist artist and is thinking of displaying some of her art work in online shops. SHe was talking last week about a technology such as this that would enable her…
krmmalik on HN
Alternatives named
tvcalculator.com
From 1 comment
Clever, but steal some ideas from here: http://tvcalculator.com/ Compare 4:3 and 16:9 content in the box as an option. I use that to try to figure out what to get to replace my…
ck2 on HN
SnapShop
From 2 comments
There is an augmented reality furniture app out there. Can't remember the name off hand, but some googling will probably reveal it.
greendestiny on HNSeeing the title, I thought this was like SnapShop (http://www.snapshopinc.com/), where you hold your iPhone, point at the wall, and you see the picture with the TV added, as in…
alain94040 on HN
Sony TV size guide
From 1 comment
Sony have built something similar to this for their TVs. Although it only works with photographs rather than video: http://www.sony.co.uk/article/tv-size-guide
Ammike on HN
Roomeon
From 1 comment
See roomeon.com ... 3D interior designer for mom+pop at least that's the idea. Old buddies of mine are doing this. Only desktop app though if I were them I'd get busy writing a…
dualogy on HN