Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

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I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it.

http://getwebcolors.com/

Thanks.

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Could we please stop calling those apps startups?

I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images.

Good job!

Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked.

Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.

Sure you're right, it is not a startup. I just copy pasted the title from another post, so it has startup word in it.

Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/

Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea.

I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com.

As a non-designer, I like the concept...

Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.

Well thanks for your comments. I'm aware that it is somewhat slow for now, as it has no cache, or any other optimization. I just released it if any interest will arise. Hopefully I got enough motivation to enhance the performance.

Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.

It has some stability problems, though it is working now.

I guess its down again, I can't reach it.

It'd be great if there was a permalink where I could go back to for the color palette (I'm in Linux, so no Photoshop for me). It would also probably reduce load as I wouldn't need to get the palette again.

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