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Show HN: Qvotr – Like Pinterest, except for words

31 points| ubuwaits | 11 years ago |qvotr.com | reply

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[+] nsfmc|11 years ago|reply
exciting! the creator of ffffound, Yugo Nakamura, a few years after launching that site released another one, inyo.jp, which was entirely a quote blog. I always thought the idea was compelling and surprised that it never had widespread appeal like ffffound did especially considering how popular sharing gifs of quotes is on twitter (which, btw, qvotr should totally have twitter cards).

One (or two) suggestions for qvotr: it would be nice if the front page had popular/hot quotes listed, so that others can take a sort of read of the 'quote landscape.' it's not clear from the outset what the 'tone' of the site is, is it inspirational quotes, insights, all of the above, etc.

Second suggestion is to let the quotes breathe a bit more. they're really cramped in there so the overall effect is sorta meat-market-like.

Neat project, excited to see where it goes!

[+] ubuwaits|11 years ago|reply
Thanks! We agree about the twitter cards. We have a bunch of more ideas down that path as well.

Improving the home page for both signed-in and signed-out users is something we are working at this very moment.

And I also agree about letting the quotes breathe more. Thanks for the feedback!

[+] amrrs|11 years ago|reply
Nice, but it'd be great if displaying same quote more than one time in the newsfeed could be avoided :)
[+] ubuwaits|11 years ago|reply
Yup, definitely something we'll fix as soon as possible.
[+] esperluette|11 years ago|reply
Findings from betaworks did something similar, and I really liked that service. They didn't get any traction, though. :-(

Are you going to have an API? Because that would be sweet.

[+] onlyafly|11 years ago|reply
Thanks for the feedback! How would you see yourself using an API if there was one?
[+] ozh|11 years ago|reply
This is excitingly promising. Needs a Firefox extension, though :)
[+] ozh|11 years ago|reply
Another thing: once logged in, I cannot find a way back to the Chrome extension. There should be some "tools" page or something :)
[+] ozh|11 years ago|reply
Also, 2 little CSS/JS glitches: on FF (latest, Windows) the closing quote is ill positioned and the popup stuff for "Share" and "Delete" links is off by a couple pixels, see http://i.imgur.com/zW85FDV.png