giveit100.com
Productivity
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SHOW HN2013
147points
102comments
#135of 1,739 in 2013
Top 8%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
28 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 13 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 13 for, 3 againstDesign: 4 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Inspiring concept and clean, simple design
From 3 comments
I love everything about this. It was fun watching your videos and how far you progressed over the 100 days. Even more fun to see that made the last video about the post right…
MichaelTieso on HNI love the idea, the design is simple and it's really nice to go through the videos of people, really inspiring!
jypepin on HNI love this idea so much and you two really owned those clips! It's so rare to get a glimpse of how a startup went from day 1 to day 100 on this level. And it looks like you had…
jcklnruns on HN
Seinfeld-calendar style accountability
From 2 comments
Some people on here are probably going to flame this idea because it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing, but I think they are missing the point: this is just a…
TheBiv on HNThis is fantastic! Such a good idea, and a very clever way to launch it. As I was browsing through the videos (very intuitive interface), I was wondering why I hadn't heard of…
christiangenco on HN
Objections
Social login (Twitter/Facebook) privacy concerns
From 3 comments
I've been burned before by startups that got hacked and spammed all my twitter friends. Sorry, normal signup or I'm not doing it. Love the project though.
3pt14159 on HNThat was the first thought I had. "She looks familiar" check the front page and instantly knew who it was. I love this idea and the implementation is pretty slick. Hope the…
boyter on HNI like this idea. I started around week ago, recording short movies (5-20 sec) from every day of work on my latest project. It help me stay focus. That's why I think your app may…
vojant on HN
Mouseover autoplay causes unwanted sound and performance issues
From 3 comments
Mouseover video playback its kinda crappy when your scrolling, if your mouse cursor is crossing over several videos you just keep hearing too many random sounds. Also since…
superbeefy on HNI'm running chrome. Scrolling speed isn't the issue. When you have the mouse cursor on the page and you start scrolling down, if your cursor crosses through a video it will start…
superbeefy on HNMouseover playing videos. Not cool man.
skizm on HN
Browser bugs on Safari, Chromium and Firefox
From 3 comments
It looks pretty weird on Safari - "html5: Video file not found" on all videos.
ecesena on HNI'm getting the same issue on Chromium 28.0.1500.71 on Ubuntu 12.04.
frakkingcylons on HNThe videos loading all at once crashed my ubuntu computer with the newest version of firefox :/ It also totally bogged down my subpar internet connection since I would hover over…
codygman on HN
Requests
Non-social login or email/password accounts
From 3 comments
I've been burned before by startups that got hacked and spammed all my twitter friends. Sorry, normal signup or I'm not doing it. Love the project though.
3pt14159 on HNAny chance I can use this with OpenId or sign up for an individual account some time soon? I really hate using my social accounts to sign in. I know it's probably super low…
nathas on HNThat was the first thought I had. "She looks familiar" check the front page and instantly knew who it was. I love this idea and the implementation is pretty slick. Hope the…
boyter on HN
Native mobile app for easier video trimming and upload
From 2 comments
Thank you! We restricted it to 10 seconds to help keep the videos interesting. We definitely need a better way to trim the videos though. We'd like to build a mobile app that…
karenxcheng on HNThanks! We want to make a native mobile app so it's even easier to upload. Right now it's clunkier than we'd like (especially through web)
karenxcheng on HN
Comments on the same page as videos
From 1 comment
Very cool idea. I would change the functionality of the commenting system. I'd like to see the comments on the same page as all the videos, rather than clicking through to a new…
lylemckeany on HN
Questions
How the site will make money
From 1 comment
This is cute, but I don't understand how it's going to make money.
languagehacker on HN
Infrastructure and costs for video storage
From 1 comment
Any infrastructure or implementation details for HN userbase? Like where do you store videos (S3?), approximate costs, etc...
zura on HN
Why videos are limited to 10 seconds
From 1 comment
This is such a cool idea. What's the reasoning behind limiting the video length? Quite a few people appear to get cut off in their videos before they have a chance to document…
citricsquid on HN
Alternatives named
Seinfeld calendar method
From 2 comments
Some people on here are probably going to flame this idea because it glorifies someone showing off what they are doing, but I think they are missing the point: this is just a…
TheBiv on HNSince this does seem to have roots in the Seinfeld calendar methodology, are there plans to have a before/after of the 100 days? It would probably be more quantifiable and…
baoist on HN
1 Second Everyday app
From 1 comment
Thankyou! Yea I've seen a few things like that recently. One other interesting one is the 1 second every day app[1]. [1] http://1secondeveryday.com/
Finbarr on HN
Evr.st
From 1 comment
It's like you took all the best parts of Evr.st, but stripped away all the pretentious bullshit because you're genuinely into the idea. So yeah. It's awesome. Congrats!
SandersAK on HN