Note this guideline as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." You've been breaking that one badly too.
That argument might hold some water if you hadn't been blatantly abusing the submission system and violating the site guidelines.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok." Emphasis added.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
That assaults you with a mix of garish colors and animations, but sections of sanity break through now and there.
The site for Yvette's Bridal Formal, sadly now gone but archived [1], lacks the animations, but doubles down on the color assault and doesn't interrupt it with any sanity for arguably more effective inflection of mental damage upon the viewer.
Mental illness in word usage and web design. Some of the words in there remind me of if a Terry A. Davis was untalented, and did web design instead of write compilers, langs, and OS'.
The copywriting is very fresh and to the point:
“ You can take the Hyundai Tucson abroad to any normal destination (usually excluding dodgy places like Albania, etc), but you should apply for a VE103 form from the finance company before you go, which proves to the damn foreign police that you have permission to use the car.”
> Note to Americans: the £ is like the $, except bigger
This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
I'm kind of sad they minified their CSS and some of their JS. Sure minification saves some bytes, but I really wonder how much we really save assuming the server uses compression. I love being able to see how different sites work and minification makes that a lot harder.
Part of what makes this fun is that Canlis is a high end dining restaurant and generally uses a very modern/professional aesthetic in their branding: https://canlis.com/
There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation.
The 19th century feel it lends may also be a part of it, and is also not accidental: the naming scheme originates from the times before the modern corporation, where no isolation from liability meant a failed business could easily leave the founder on the street (but loans were also much less accessible). Not much to lose further, then, is there?
> There's something very appealing to me about people who name their companies after themselves. Ling's cars, Prusa Research, Linus Media Group. Maybe I'm only remembering the good examples, but when you put yourself out there, it seems like there is a strong incentive to not fuck up your reputation.
So it would seem, but companies can and do survive their founders, and at that point they are no different than any other. Not to mention that founders can be motivated by reputation in an idiosyncratic manner.
One I found that's similar is http://9front.org/. I scratched my head in disbelief because I was looking for an operating system, and the website looked like I arrived at a kooky conteo place.
It also renders fine (and quickly) with no Javascript. I'm going to guess it's probably also friendly on the data. It's (mostly) legible, despite the color scheme. There's no autoplaying video or audio that assaults my senses.
I think we could use more design like this on the web, but, you know, with interesting stuff to read.
> "The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out"."
That punk is treated as a serious artistic subject does not conflict with that. There's lots of other unprofessional subjects and motifs in art spaces, e.g., nudity.
> "The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out"."
Substitute "Punk" for e.g. "Group" and read that sentence again.
Quite a few examples of this aesthetic can be found on Brutalist Websites[0]. (Be forewarned, the Brutalist Websites site itself is brutal in a different way: it tries to load hundreds of high-res screenshots all at once.)
Some time ago this was showcased on hn too: https://build.mmm.page/
It too is a dnd website builder that prone fun and brutalist design and whole tld also is .page. Are these two projects related ?
straw.page has been posted by okozzie 16 times in the last 10 months, sometimes the odd URL hack to get past the repost filters (+?, /start, +?ref=hn, +?ref, +?utm) but mostly just the same page.
Readit News
Beyond that, you have posted it dozens of additional times and then deleted it. That's abusive. It's also against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Note this guideline as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." You've been breaking that one badly too.
99% of the discussion is focused on the landing page
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok." Emphasis added.
From both https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place."
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
Yes, it's a real car leasing company. Desktop version is best but mobile is still great.
The site for Yvette's Bridal Formal, sadly now gone but archived [1], lacks the animations, but doubles down on the color assault and doesn't interrupt it with any sanity for arguably more effective inflection of mental damage upon the viewer.
[1] https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/
https://m.lingscars.com/ghc
"god hates cars"
You can't make this shit up. I hope they can keep this up forever.
This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6...
Part of what makes this fun is that Canlis is a high end dining restaurant and generally uses a very modern/professional aesthetic in their branding: https://canlis.com/
So it would seem, but companies can and do survive their founders, and at that point they are no different than any other. Not to mention that founders can be motivated by reputation in an idiosyncratic manner.
Great customer service too - she runs an excellent business.
She was on UK dragon's den too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM
http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html
"Become an Ordained Minister" http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm
and then a prompt to subscribe to your email newsletter...
and then a modal box offering 15% off
UX is probably in the top half of commercial sites
I think we could use more design like this on the web, but, you know, with interesting stuff to read.
Followed by the same for location access
And then finding out I have to consider turning off ad block to consider consuming the content
And then turning it off and refreshing the page just to find it was paywalled all along, just under the fold!
"Hey 50.000 people are looking to book this exact room at this exact moment".
So unannoying, this site, that it's not even funny.
You can find a similar aesthetic in many art spaces:
https://rhizome.org/events/
https://indigo.ooo/en/
https://2019.indigo.ooo/en/
https://2017.indigo.ooo/en/
> "The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out"."
That punk is treated as a serious artistic subject does not conflict with that. There's lots of other unprofessional subjects and motifs in art spaces, e.g., nudity.
punk is dead,
It's just another cheap product for the consumer's head.
Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors,
Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters.
Cbs promoted the clash,
But it ain't for revolution, it's just for cash.
Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be
And it ain't got a thing to do with you or me.
- Crass
Anything is professional these days as long as you can sell things with it.
Substitute "Punk" for e.g. "Group" and read that sentence again.
[0] https://brutalistwebsites.com/
I like this one
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I just redesigned the landing page, in preparation for a huge update coming next week (blogging!)
Twitter for updates:
https://twitter.com/okozzie_/status/1467951581408727047
and the visitor counter.
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