Show HN: My 4-hour project, why it failed

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OH NO, FAIL WHALE!

TL;DR until I get it back up... I made http://www.weedtee.com one afternoon for a friend when he got obsessed with this story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155

We put it up yesterday, it did not go viral.

Not exactly the type of project I expected to see on HN.

But actually ... I like it, I might even buy one as a gift for a stoner friend.

The design (of weedtee.com) is a bit heavy. I'm using a crappy comp connected to RDP and it took it about 5-10 seconds just to render the page. Maybe (a slight) redesign will help you turn visitors into customers?

Cool, thanks for the tip. Is it the javascript that's taking a while or just downloading the page? The background image is on the LARGE side.

A little of both. It takes a while for the background image to load, maybe you can compress it without noticeable quality loss? Then again, it should be fine with a normal connection on a normal computer.

Thanks for sharing, this is why I love HackerNews - even fails are wins.

too bad. I'd say save it for the next time prop 19 rolls around.

Failed because of a crappy server? I can't see anything.

Yes, I'm running apache on a cheap ubuntu VPS from Enotch. Anyone want to help me with this?

The quickest way to handle lots of load on an article is to make a static html page of your article and serve that instead of your wordpress/whatever resource intensive website.

Nutrition facts for humans might be fun, too. Useful for vampires at least.

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