Show HN: My weekend project - minimotivation.com

FYI - I created this simple site for myself. I use it as my homepage to get a little motivational reminder every time I open a new tab.

I thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.

Make it so that I can click the content instead of scrolling down to click a small link lost in a corner.

Reminded me of fortune , so I typed it into a terminal and got:

Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?

A: One less drunk.

On St. Patrick's day of all days :)

Awesome site, I absolutely love it. The only problem is that there isn't enough quotes, I think you should add a lot more.

I collect quotes and have quite a collection of good ones. Here are my favorite quotes, a lot of them would fit great on minimotivation.com:

http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html

Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.

One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

I like it. Thanks! A way to link to a specific quote/video/etc would be great for sharing with others.

I wrote a similar thing into our project management system here at work. Whenever we receive notifications about a project or something, a little small quote like the ones you're publishing are added to the end of the e-mail...

It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).

So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}

It seems like an overkill, though :-)

This video just came up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=playe...

It blew me away.

Nice! Is there a way to suggest quotes?

Great, don't take any suggestions from here. The app looks perfect, but it would have been fantastic if you had an API interface :)

No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.

Cool, looks similar to something I made last month :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/

have you thought about automatically updating the quotes every 10-15 seconds?

The text is way too big for me to easily read it.

Nice concept and i like the simple execution.

the font size does require me to "move my eyes" a lot to read longer phrases. i like how completely simple and to the point it is though.

it would be neat to let users submit their own inspirational nuggets - though you would probably have to review them to avoid misuse.

Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too. Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes?

If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)

Nice. And added to my little inspiration collection :)

http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation

And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.

This is just brilliant! Great work! I think you should be able to click the quote to go to the next one rather than having to go to the bottom of the page and click refresh. Other than that I loved it!

Cool. Mind sharing the list of quotes you use as a single file? :)

I like the site, nice and simple.

My only question is where do the quotes come from? I hit f5 too fast before noticing one of the quotes was by "Heywood Jablowme"

Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?

Good job!

I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.

Make this into a chrome extension as an addition to the default "new tab" page :)

Yes, simple and straight to the point. Good going matey

I like it. What about Star Trek quotes ? :p

Hey good job, really like it!

Thanks! My new homepage :)

Refresh the page? Why not use jQuery Ajax function to call the server side script.

Let users submit their own quotes.

Nice.

+1