Pinwords
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How HN took it
10 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Design: 3 for, 4 againstIdea: 4 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished and easy to use
From 3 comments
Love it. I'm sure lots of people will like it too. Very polished. I like it that you provide dummy images so impatient people like me don't have to upload an image to test it out.
coenhyde on HNThat part was clear to me immediately. All in all it was really easy to use. What might be confusing from a UI point of view, is that the example images on the top right look…
ma2rten on HNThis is going to be huge.
chrishaum on HN
Live text updating while typing is nice
From 1 comment
This is really nice. I've been working on a very similar project in fabric.js this past week (captioning a picture, dragging text around on it and posting to facebook and…
golden_apples on HN
Objections
Text size and resizing is not obvious
From 1 comment
Uploaded a small picture to test it (the first one I found, about 200x200), the text was so small so I didn't even understand I can re-size it. The words would fit on the image…
angry-hacker on HN
Source attribution of original image is not kept
From 2 comments
Could someone explain how the original content source is kept? Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is…
phwd on HNThat is indeed what I did, there is no source shown here http://www.pinwords.com/pins/e68d21f0720b11e1aaccfd54b73b70c4. Try it…
phwd on HN
Text hard to read on dark textures
From 1 comment
It didn't work well when the texture was dark and the text was black.
fraserharris on HN
Continue/Next flow confusing, no back button
From 2 comments
After you choose a template and press the continue button. There should be a back button if you change your mind. I realize that you can go back clicking on the tip of the…
vibrunazo on HNSpent a couple of embarrassing seconds clicking on the text on one of the sample windows until I noticed that I had to push the "Next" button to get to that stage…
mhd on HN
Requests
More templates and fonts
From 2 comments
can use more templates .. and also how about showing memes generated by users ?
ing33k on HNsimple, yet so useful - look forward to more font themes!
chrisling on HN
Show user-generated memes
From 1 comment
can use more templates .. and also how about showing memes generated by users ?
ing33k on HN
Instagram integration
From 2 comments
I see this fitting really well with Instagram.
alagu on HNOn Instagram, "picture talking" is very common since the service is completely geared towards pictures but people still want to use words from time to time. So to express a…
zach on HN
Questions
How the original content source is kept
From 1 comment
Could someone explain how the original content source is kept? Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is…
phwd on HN
How the HTML is turned into a JPG
From 1 comment
Cool. How does it turn the HTML into an actual jpg image?
tabbyjabby on HN
Alternatives named
Instagram text-on-photo apps
From 1 comment
I agree, sort of. My wife has at least 3 different apps that let her drop text on images before posting to Instagram. But everyone uses Instagram on their phone, so a web-app…
callmeed on HN
Pinterest text bookmarklets
From 1 comment
Could someone explain how the original content source is kept? Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is…
phwd on HN