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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?

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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.

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