Show HN: Tell me how my browser extension to help browse websites sux - <AUTHOR> I am pretty tired of working with web apps that are a disaster to tab through (I'm looking at you AWS & Github), so I rage-coded a chrome browser extension to help me piece up the page and get back to kicking asp (jokes though, hate asp). I think it kind of sux, but that's only my opinion (and maybe since i'm the only user...).
Care to share why you think it sux?
Landing Page: https://shortqut.com/extension
The landing page also sux, please tell me why!
Chrome Store Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortqut/pbdnmkolnjmoeooffliebhmogchfmkgf <comment><USER2> Why would I use this instead of the default browser search/tabbing? What does it do extra?

<comment><AUTHOR> Hey!

1\. It surfaces hidden submenu items.

This will immediately give you access to all the navigational links that you wouldn't get access to.

2\. It harmonizes tabbing experience visually.

Sites have made a mess of focus indicators, most removing them. This extension will make the active selection more visible.

3\. It surfaces the associated link easier.

4\. In the near future it will support all HTML elements.

You'll be able to search for the inputs and select the one you choose.

5\. It pulls in history/favorite/open tabs/common sites to pull your browsing context into the current tab.

6\. It's a more natural flow.

To select a link and follow it with chrome you need to: 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2\. Search for link 3\. ESC to select the element (esc is a weird key here) 4\. Enter

Instead 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2\. Search for link 3\. TAB to select the element 4\. Enter

7\. You can see the search results in the result set all at once even if they are far apart on the page.

<comment><USER2> > To select a link and follow it with chrome you need to: 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2. > Search for link 3. ESC to select the element (esc is a weird key here) 4. > Enter

Instead 1.CMD/CTRL + F 2. Search for link 3. TAB to select the element 4. Enter

This is a good explanation. So it saves me one key press and also presents search results better, which sounds pretty nice. In my case, I rarely search on a page, and when I do I don't think it's slow or annoying. I usually avoid adding more browser extensions as they make Chrome slower and more buggy, I personally don't think I would add it to improve a flow that I rarely use.

<comment><AUTHOR> Great feedback. Appreciate it.

>I usually avoid adding more browser extensions as they make Chrome slower and more buggy.

I feel you.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Mint founder on Silicon Valley - <AUTHOR> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/14/the-value-of-techcrunch50-mint-acquired-by-intuit-for-170m-two-years-after-winning-tc40/

<comment><USER2> _"While everyone else was doing social media, music, video or the startup de jour, we tried to ground ourselves in what any business should be doing: solve a real problem for people."_

This is good advice for all aspiring entrepreneurs.

<comment><USER3> While I can see where he is coming from(and have myself grown tired of the social media stuff), his tone is kind of condescending.

Cool he sold his "real problem" startup; but to suggest YouTube, facebook aren't solving "real problems" is interesting in the least.

<comment><USER4> If I woke up tomorrow and one of those sites was down for good, Mint is the one I'd miss the most.

<comment><USER5> Your comment isn't really useful :/ you're obviously an outlier. Most people would go insane if they couldn't access youtube or facebook.

Social media, music, video _are_ real problems that people have, and need solutions to. The problem comes when a startup doesn't really solve anything new and just copies existing stuff.

<comment><USER4> I guess you and I have differing opinions on what "real problems" are. Personal finance, yup. Facebook feed, not so much.

Out of people who use Mint and who use YouTube, I'd bet many would pick Mint over YouTube if they had to pick one.

Honestly, if youtube or facebook vanished, and in this magical world, no one propped up a replacement. People would moan for a week, and then they'd go back to the same things they did before YouTube existed, with no change to anything practical in their life. People wouldn't go insane, they'd simple find other ways to waste time.

<comment><USER6> Exactly. Vimeo & Hulu replace all the value of YouTube. It is commodity free video hosting, there is no community at YouTube.

Facebook is useful for me, but I wouldn't pay for it if I had to.

I'd gladly pay for Mint.

Mint has nothing to do with taxes like axod says. It is about budgeting and tracking expenditures.

I used to get a statement in the mail each month from 4 different institutions related to bank accounts, credit cards, and investments. (Or check online at 4 different places). Then I would reconcile them with my checkbook / some pile of receipts to double check.

Now I go to one place 1-2 times a week and check against my receipts right away. It never builds up and takes significantly less time.

It also helps budget and gives you data to figure out where you are spending your money.

If you are not one of those people who has money to keep track of or you don't balance your checkbook, then sure the value is hard to see. But if you actually take care of your money it is immensely helpful and saves me time and money.

<comment><USER5> >> "Mint has nothing to do with taxes like axod says."

>> "If you are not one of those people who has money to keep track of or you don't balance your checkbook, then sure the value is hard to see."

I was really trying to work out why Mint seems to be valued highly in the US. I can see some of the differences now.

The idea of having a 'checkbook' is incredibly quaint to most people in the UK. No one uses checks anymore here, not for 10-20 years, we're used to free banking, online account management, direct debits/transfers, etc. The majority of people have direct debits (Automated bill payments) setup for all their bills. They have their pay paid automatically into their bank by transfer (All free of course).

Banks provide all the tools we need to manage our money for free generally. Some online banking tools even allow you to access other banks that you may have accounts with (With your approval), so you can see all your accounts from one interface, and get a better picture.

I still think the added burden of having to file your own taxes would make you more likely to need something like mint, but it's probably more the extreme differences in consumer banking that's the bigger reason.

If I had to pay my bills by check, I'd go insane.

<comment><USER6> I don't write checks either. I've written 2 checks in the last 12 months. One for a used car and one for a bike. Both from private sellers so they didn't take debit cards.

I use my debit and credit cards all day. I never even use cash, primarily so that it all gets categorized automatically by Mint and I'm too lazy to do it for cash by hand.

But in my mind a debit card is the same as checks.

Of course I pay my bills online and have bank access online (you must to use Mint).

The difference I guess is that I'm using multiple companies. Why load up Bank of America, Vanguard, WSFS, Wachovia, Capitol One and Fidelity's websites and use 6 different interfaces on 6 different websites when I can use one unified one?

You seem to have an anti-US bias that you think we are stupid or something. It is a question of how you treat your money, not the tools available.

And you are horribly mistaken on the "burden of filing your own taxes", which again, has nothing to do with Mint. 99% of the work for taxes is done by the HR department at your office and by a tax accountant. I just hand the appropriate papers to the right people, and sign it at the end. Total timer per year: an hour at most. Maybe you shouldn't comment on things you obviously have no knowledge of.

<comment><USER5> >> "Maybe you shouldn't comment on things you obviously have no knowledge of."

Then I wouldn't be able to comment on anything at all! :/

Point taken, maybe things have changed in the US since I was there. My understanding of things was that people still got paid by check, paid bills by check etc, did not get free banking, and paid 'convenience fees' to pay things online etc.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Wow, one line out of the whole story mentions TechCrunch, and they run that as the headline.

And it's slimy how TC implies that _because_ Mint launched at TC50, it _caused_ Mint to be acquired.

<comment><USER8> Yeah I got the same weird feeling when I read that headline, but honestly, getting that type of coverage probably helped them considerably. It seems like most successful companies have the right proportion of hard work and luck.

<comment><USER7> Sure, good coverage helps, but with a good product and good execution, they'll get it from anyone. If the formula is good idea + hard work + good execution + coverage from TC, you can easily replace "coverage from TC" with "coverage from NYTimes", and still be successful. TC didn't cause Mint to be acquired, so they shouldn't pretend they helped.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> This story does seem to gloss over the VC piece, to me it read like they started with no money and got to $170 million without investment. Didn't they raise 30+ million?

<comment><USER10> it sounds like they they raised a little over $30M, and the last $14M of that was @ a $140M valuation.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> What he doesn't mention is how much money Mint was making (If it was making any at all).

Plenty of bubble valley hyping up about how it couldn't have happened anywhere else etc etc. Bleugh.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> _Here's to the Mint team, from New Zealand, from France, Tunisia, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, Greece, and all over the U.S._

Hm. So, they got their start in the valley and then hired people all over the world? It reads like an ode to the valley absolutely till the last paragraph...

<comment><USER11> i read it as ppl from those countries are on the Mint team and live in the valley.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> excellent timing for the relentless techcrunch self-promotion machine...

<comment><USER13> Oh come on...

      1. This was written by Mint's founder, not TC
      2. This *is* a success story for TC
      3. There's nothing wrong with self-promotion :)

<comment><USER12> Hey, is there no room for snark about a snarky website? I've got a horse in the TC50 race, so it's great that he bills it as "The Value of TechCrunch", but isn't really about the value of Mint?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> Aaron Patzer also gave a talk at Duke that has some good advice for startup founders:

[http://media.fuqua.duke.edu/Content/Groups/EES/2008/Patzer_3...](http://media.fuqua.duke.edu/Content/Groups/EES/2008/Patzer_300K.mov)

</comment><comment><USER15> _"We've attracted over 1.5 million users, found over $300 million in savings, managed $50 billion in assets, and helped people track nearly $200 billion in purchases."_

I'm not sure I would sell - $170m seems rather low. Furthermore, they have so much room for expansion, which only will be crippled by working under a tax software company. They might be trying to automagically do your taxes for you, but they don't have enough relevant information without having it to be the same hassle as using the software.

</comment><comment><USER16> I seem to be banned from TechCrunch and have to go through google cache if I really want to read something linked from HN. Still trying to decide if that's a good thing or not. It says:

 _TechCrunch is currently down for some scheduled maintenance. In the meantime, please check out the other sites on our network of blogs for the latest in tech news:_

The above is followed by a list of links. Been this way for at least a week now.

</comment><comment><USER17> Mint is such a great website.

Can someone please tell me how they are able to access websites with scripts? What languages do they use to do that?

<comment><USER18> They get their information from Yodlee.

</comment></comment><comment> brown9-2 I'm ignorant on how the TechCrunch50 conference works. Does TC have any ownership stake in mint?

<comment><AUTHOR> No, they just won the $50k prize... but it seems like Arrington got some (advisor?) stock if you see the exchange between him, Calacanis and Aaron.

<comment><USER19> Advisor stock? That's an enormous conflict of interest for a editor at news ("news"?) organization covering the space.

<comment><USER20> Conflict of interest? TechCrunch?

Say it ain't so! :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> sounds like they might have used java on the backend :)

<comment><USER22> the backend is indeed java

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> I'm surprised they use Mysql, since IIRC it doesn't have transaction capability.

<comment><USER24> ?innoDB?</comment></comment>


JSONPath - XPath for JSON - <AUTHOR> http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ There are also implementations in many languages as Java (https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath), Python (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonpath/), Ruby (https://github.com/joshbuddy/jsonpath) and Perl (https://github.com/masukomi/jsonpath-perl). <comment><AUTHOR> There are also implementations in other languages as Java (<https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath>), Python (<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonpath/>), Ruby (<https://github.com/joshbuddy/jsonpath>) and Perl (<https://github.com/masukomi/jsonpath-perl>).

</comment><comment><USER2> I wrote a really simple JSON parsing tool using a JavaScript implementation of JSONPath. It's been invaluable as a tool to analyze the JSON returned by my APIs.

I guess I should add a nice template (right now it's really crude HTML with just the bare necessities) and release it to the world... maybe next weekend :)

</comment><comment><USER3> Legitimate question: can someone tell me why something like this would be useful? Don't most libraries that handle json decoding make parsing it extremely easy? I read through the examples on the site, and I'm still not convinced something like JSONPath is necessary for what they're doing.

<comment><USER4> Parsing and accessing are two different tasks. Even if you have an entire JSON (or XML) data structure in memory, getting to the right pieces can be difficult. "Return all of the order entries contained in an a shipment of type 'Billable' whose total price is less than $500." In the JSON world you'd typically write some imperative code to loop through the data. XPath allows you describe things like this without having to get into the nitty gritty of how the traversal is actually performed, similar to how CSS selectors work with the browser DOM.

I do look forward to the JSON community (re?)developing schema and transformation languages to go along with this.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> I made a similiar type of library for Erlang called props[1], which also includes common data manipulation tasks like merging, replacing data at a path, etc.

[1] <https://github.com/greyarea/props></comment>


Adobe's amazing blurry image fix. - <AUTHOR> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864&feature=player_embedded

<comment><USER2> Looks amazing! Has there been any official posts about how it was implemented?

<comment><AUTHOR> I checked for it in the "labs" section of the site to no avail. I am sure some of our lovely adobe members would love to fill us in >wink< .</comment></comment>


I Built a Social Network for Food and Here's How I Did it - <AUTHOR> http://blog.yumhacker.com/post/74733516768/yumhacker-i-built-a-social-network-for-food-and-heres <comment><USER2> The most impressive thing I find about the creator of yumhacker is that she just does what she wants to, even if she doesn't know "how" to do it she eventually figures it out. From her 180 websites to 180 days challenge, to this.

That kind of "Just F*$king Do It" attitude is so rare to find.

<comment><USER3> Thank you! Getting over the fear of failure has been a huge lesson for me in the past year.

<comment><USER4> What are your thoughts on how to attract users to your projects?

<comment><USER3> That's the next thing I get to explore and I'll definitely be asking for plenty of advice. One thing I plan to do is go out and talk to people who love exploring new restaurants. Bloggers, critics, chefs and just people who generally love food. I'm also thinking about different features that could help provide value while the site is still small, such as custom lists. But mostly, I expect it will be a lot of trial and error.

<comment><USER5> Come out to [https://next-step-growth.eventbrite.com](https://next-step- growth.eventbrite.com)

Literally the best place to chat with people about this topic.

<comment><USER3> Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I really, really enjoyed the 180 websites posts. I checked this site out earlier (this week I believe?) when you shared it to HN and thought it was pretty slick. It was great to get a sort of post game review of this particular app, detailing your battles in the trenches with Backbone, Places API etc.

Really inspring stuff for anyone sitting around with the itch to throw a side project together on a rainy day. Respect.

<comment><USER3> Thanks! I'll probably write more about my learning process as well as the technology in the future.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Ah, when I saw the title I imagined a homeless hacker who wrote code in exchange for food. That would've been a really interesting article :)

</comment><comment><USER8> Since you are into making random websites I have one.

SkinProblem.com

Let users upload pictures of there insect bites, infections,... Make them categorize their problem by race/skin color, location, time of the picture since the bite, Source expert opinion on cause of problem List treatment options

<comment><USER9> Something like [https://www.dermio.com/](https://www.dermio.com/)?

<comment><USER10> Woah.. is this like Rule 34 of startups? If an idea exists, there is a startup doing it (and has a .io domain name)?

<comment><USER11> "Best, Most Original Idea Man's Ever Had Returns 114,000 Google Search Results"

[http://www.theonion.com/articles/best-most-original-idea- man...](http://www.theonion.com/articles/best-most-original-idea-mans-ever- had-returns-1140,35025/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> Nice! Technical question:

I type "Elmhurst, NY" and it converted it to "Elmhurst, Queens, NY 11373, USA", how did you do that? I'm looking to do something similar!

<comment><USER3> I use the Google Maps Javascript api for geolocation. It takes a string and returns an array of places that match. Each place object includes a formatted address which I put in the search bar in place of what was initially typed.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Interesting on a few levels. One, the learning curve by Jennifer is impressive, going from a site to change background color in the beginning to yumhacker. Yeah there is a ways to go in functionality, but that is a cool start. (of course Facebook probably sucks the air out of other social networks, but that's really not the point.) But what I really find more impressive is that yumhacker seems to have a good amount of initial users. I've found the easy part in launching a webapp is building it, but the getting of users is really the hard part. That is the testament to the power of a unique marketing idea (which probably did not start as marketing) of deciding to learn web design and throwing up a blog with a catchy title, ie, 180 websites in 180 days. Now that she has raised her profile a bit and has some eyeballs on her, she is able to make something a bit more worthwhile and attract users to it as well.

</comment><comment><USER14> What I really like about this approach is that people don't review a location, like they do on sites like Yelp, and instead "endorse" places they really like.

What this effectively means is that while browsing, I no longer need to mentally balance the positives with the negatives of a place. Instead, I can quickly see which places have received more endorsements, which in my mind, loosely forms a hierarchy of best to worst.

Plus, I don't care what Cindy from the Mission says about a spot. If my buddies all like it, good enough for me to at least check it out.

Side note: If possible, I think a ratio of endorsements to check-ins would be hugely awesome.

<comment><USER3> That's a great thought on endorsements vs. check-ins. I'll have to think about including more metrics.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> Wow. I and my friend have build a similar project (similar technology, not topic). I will announce it here in NH, I am just afraid the tiny server won't be able to handle the traffic.

It just took him two days to build it. But I realize that we don't have your "Redo search when map moved". I realize that it is annoying that we don't have this feature.

Great work.

</comment><comment><USER16> this person is amazing! I remember the 180 websites in 180 days project and it's so encouraging to see how far she has come.

<comment><USER3> Thank you! Some days I can't believe it's been less than a year.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> Great work Jen.

One question. How do I set my default location? I've signed in and it has my location as "Newcastle, New South Wales" but the homepage still goes to San Francisco, CA.

I see that I can share my location, but that only seems to run a single search query.

Once this issue is resolved I will suggest it to my friends, so you can get some more users down-under :)

</comment><comment><USER18> It's great and congratulations for your accomplishment! 1 question though, are you planning to make money out of it? If so how? Because I too am a beginner developer, learnt and made a website all by myself www.gccfishing.com and I was looking for ideas on how to create income from it.

<comment><USER3> Thank you! My focus for YumHacker right now is for people to try it out and figure out how to make it better.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> Well done.

Be careful, though, Yum Brands (trading symbol YUM) is a well known brand associated with... food? Well, maybe in other parts of the world they're associated with food but here, I'd say if this seriously takes off you might hear them come a'knocking due to trademark infringement.

</comment><comment><USER20> Very nice. I love the idea of specific social networks where people can connect based on their interests.

I really like the UI as well. The top 10 represented on the map, it's so convenient. I hope you keep working on this.

I think you should include a link to github on the main website it might be a good endorsement?

</comment><comment><USER21> @jenniferDewalt, can you describe your typical day of working on this project? For example, there are many threads about not being able to find time to get side projects off the ground, how did you do it? what did you have to give up to get it done? example of daily schedule? Thanks!

<comment><USER3> When I first decided I was going to learn to code, I saved some money and organized my life so that I could quit my job and tackle the challenge full time. I knew being fully immersed in learning would help me get through the rough patches and discouragement.

I spent about 8 hours a day, every day working on YumHacker, with the occasional day off or half day around the holidays. Things were kind of slow going at first because I was still doing a lot of learning and I wanted to get a better understanding of what I was doing. After I got the hang of things, the pace picked up and I started producing much faster.

The crazy schedule I've been keeping this past year has definitely cut into my social life. Weekends are my favorite days to work because the office is quiet and I get my best work done then. My friends have gotten used to me carrying a monitor around on trips.

The thing that works for me is to make a habit and do whatever it takes to stick to it. I bit the bullet and got a desk in a co-working space which means I eat more ramen noodles but allows me stay super focused and productive. I tend to stay up really late working but then I let myself sleep in so I can come back fully charged the next day. Finding a personal groove is crucial.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Wow, the title link actually links to the product home page, and not uselessly back to "blog.product.com"! Bravo! It's sad that I need to commend you on that. It's just a trend for product blogs to link back to the blog, and not to the product.

</comment><comment><USER23> It seems that you learned backbone along the way but if you did make an educated decision btw that and angular I'd love to know why you picked backbone over Angular. Awesome job thanks for all the great responses below too cool to read

<comment><USER3> A lot of my friends use Backbone and I poked around at it during the 180 Websites project. Despite the somewhat high learning curve for me in the beginning, Backbone felt like a natural extension of how I was already thinking about JS and frontend dev. I haven't really worked with Angular but I'd like to play around with it (and Ember) at some point.

<comment><USER23> Awesome thanks for the feedback and shared it cleverly on my fb via two sisters.last_name("yum") :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> I like the idea...but I wish the site did more. What features are you adding next?

<comment><USER3> I'm going to add more advanced filters so you can sort by things like price, category, etc. I'm also going to make a mobile optimized front end so it will be easier to use on fly. Some other thoughts I've had are adding the ability to make custom lists (i.e. My Fav Taco Joints) and promoting people who are active on the site.

<comment><USER25> +1 for the lists. Looking forward to it.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> @jenniferDewalt, Great job on the site, I also found your original 180 websites inspirational. I was wondering if you could speak to the technology stack you used to create your site frontend/backend?

<comment><USER3> Thanks! For the backend I use Rails as an api. Rails responds to the initial request with the assets and a barebones html doc with header, section and footer tags. From there, Rails responds to subsequent requests with JSON.

The restaurant search feature uses the Google Places api to get restaurant data (including things like hours and price) for places that aren't already in the database. YumHacker uses Postgres with PostGIS for the database and devise for authentication.

The frontend magic happens with Backbone.js. Backbone latches onto the skeleton html sent over by Rails to render the views. Whenever you request new data, it sends a request to Rails which sends back JSON. The learning curve for Backbone was kind of high but now that I've got the hang of it, it's pretty awesome.

I plan to write something more in depth about the technology in the near future.

<comment><USER21> Thanks for giving me a more in depth answer and not just telling me to go read your blog (which I should have done in more detail in the first place). Looking forward to seeing more good stuff from you and YumHacker.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> I added some restaurants to the Miami, FL area. I can add a bunch more to the fort lauderdale area as well, but would be nice to get some sort of reward for participating :)

<comment><USER3> Thanks for adding restaurants! I've got a couple of ideas for rewarding active engagement. One thought I have is awarding people something like a 'Super Hackers' status and their endorsements and profiles promoted. Another idea I've been tossing around is giving people the ability to make special lists which could also be featured.

</comment></comment><comment><USER27> The massive accomplishment that this is aside; the website is elegantly minimalistic in a way I haven't seen since the early days of Google. Good job!

</comment><comment><USER28> The website is wonderful, and is an inspiration for people like me who are new to webdev. Congratulations and thank you!

</comment><comment><USER29> This is great!

As someone who is currently diving into Rails it's certainly really helpful and inspiring.

Extra kudos for the Github repo.

</comment><comment><USER30> Just wonderful, congrats!

<comment><USER3> Thank you!

</comment></comment><comment><USER31> Why does it default to SF? This is really irksome :(

<comment><USER3> Sorry about that. Saving the search state is on my to do list right now.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> This is so snappy! What a banging job you did :)

</comment><comment><USER33> a) You are amazing and inspirational. Congratulations!

b) As a person struggling with procrastination, and goal setting/choosing, I would like to ask you some qs about the 1 site / day for 180 days, thing. It seems to me as an interesting "reach your goal, without setting hard (sub)goals in between"(?)

If I understand correctly, you set out to code one site per day, without specifying beforehand what you would do each day? Every day you said, "ok, today I'll do this"? Was it difficult to choose between possibilities, and how did you address that? Where there end conditions for the day's goal? Or you just went as far as you could? How did you manage to stay focused on the day's project, without branching off to various tangents? Were some days under- or overwhelming, in their difficulty?

..Sorry for the wall of text, but any experience/advice/insight, would be greatly appreciated. ..Congratulations, once more.

</comment><comment><USER34> A cute site. What it lacks in functionality it makes up for by being made by a woman. Pro-beginner-tip: Don't make social networks.

<comment><USER35> Well, you seem like an asshole. Pro-commenting-tip: Don't shit on people's accomplishments.

<comment><USER34> Instead I'll just join with you all in never-ending self-congratulatory ecstasy. Why aren't we all in Paradise?

<comment><USER36> You don't have to join "self-congratulatory ecstasy", but you also don't have to be a condescending dick.

Instead of making vague and shallow insults, you should try to politely explain what's wrong with OP's website.

In your 1-sentence insult, your main grudge seems to be that the website was made by a female. Your point might have been that women's work should receive equal praise (and criticism) as men's. But instead of discussing that (possibly valid) point, your sexist remark only feeds the fire (and makes you look like a dim-witted fool).

In a latter comment, your metaphor compares making social networks to gold rush. Again, possible valid point, burried behind a condescending sarcasm.

We shouldn't read between the lines to understand your point of view -- either make it POLITE and CLEAR or GTFO.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Show HN: 1 KB JavaScript library for building front end apps - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/jbucaran/hyperapp <comment><USER2> I like how it simplifies state updates using actions and auto injects previous state. This is huge since it allows the framework to control the lifecycle of state instead of having to maintain this.state and let anybody read it at ANY time

</comment><comment><USER3> This is a nice way to visualize the elm architecture, but of course it misses out on type safety and the compiler.</comment>


Ask HN: If it were safe to send JavaScript in email, what would you send? - <AUTHOR> Suspend any concern about security that comes to mind, there are so many. If you could email javascript, what would you email? What could your app email?
I would like to make useful interactive documents, data viz, and such with rich clients, but still decentralized and backwards compatible with any email system.
I cringe to think that such a hypothetical system would become a marketer's playground, even if other forms of security concerns were addressed.
Is this something worth building? <comment><USER2> > If you could email javascript, what would you email?

Malware. Specifically, crypto-mining malware.</comment>