Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible
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Beyond that, you have posted it dozens of additional times and then deleted it. That's abusive. It's also against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Note this guideline as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." You've been breaking that one badly too.
99% of the discussion is focused on the landing page
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok." Emphasis added.
From both https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place."
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
However, the discussion itself is something new to Hacker News - is there a way to have it back up please? 99% of the comments are about this form of web design vs professionalism
If you care about interesting discussions, the way to show that is to contribute stories that are just interesting without having any promotional angle. If you do that, then it's great to share your own stuff occasionally as part of the mix. That's the way to be a good community contributor.
I don't mean to be mean, but it feels pretty important to reiterate the values of the site.
The discussion is primarily focused on unprofessionalism in design.
Why can you not put this post back up? I understand the other posts being argued as purely self promotion, but this is a completely new discussion where the majority of the talking points are outside the product
Lots of people make fun websites and post them here without resorting to such tricks. I don't think it would be fair to those users to let you get away with breaking the rules this badly.
I don't think this is so hard to understand? You're totally welcome in this community if you want to be a good community member along with everyone else. Above all, that means using it for curiosity, not just as a promotional channel.
Yes, it's a real car leasing company. Desktop version is best but mobile is still great.
"god hates cars"
You can't make this shit up. I hope they can keep this up forever.
This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
The site for Yvette's Bridal Formal, sadly now gone but archived [1], lacks the animations, but doubles down on the color assault and doesn't interrupt it with any sanity for arguably more effective inflection of mental damage upon the viewer.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/LINGsCARS/@54.9613364,-1.6...
So it would seem, but companies can and do survive their founders, and at that point they are no different than any other. Not to mention that founders can be motivated by reputation in an idiosyncratic manner.
http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html
"Become an Ordained Minister" http://www.subgenius.com/index.htm
Part of what makes this fun is that Canlis is a high end dining restaurant and generally uses a very modern/professional aesthetic in their branding: https://canlis.com/
Great customer service too - she runs an excellent business.
She was on UK dragon's den too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM
and then a prompt to subscribe to your email newsletter...
and then a modal box offering 15% off
UX is probably in the top half of commercial sites
"Hey 50.000 people are looking to book this exact room at this exact moment".
So unannoying, this site, that it's not even funny.
Followed by the same for location access
And then finding out I have to consider turning off ad block to consider consuming the content
And then turning it off and refreshing the page just to find it was paywalled all along, just under the fold!
I think we could use more design like this on the web, but, you know, with interesting stuff to read.
You can find a similar aesthetic in many art spaces:
I like this one
> "The punk ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out"."
That punk is treated as a serious artistic subject does not conflict with that. There's lots of other unprofessional subjects and motifs in art spaces, e.g., nudity.
Substitute "Punk" for e.g. "Group" and read that sentence again.
punk is dead,
It's just another cheap product for the consumer's head.
Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors,
Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters.
Cbs promoted the clash,
But it ain't for revolution, it's just for cash.
Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be
And it ain't got a thing to do with you or me.
- Crass
Anything is professional these days as long as you can sell things with it.
I heard he was reborn as a cryptobro
I just redesigned the landing page, in preparation for a huge update coming next week (blogging!)
Twitter for updates:
and the visitor counter.
Please do not forget the circling text or clock around the cursor.
Also, you must choose between a spinning logo or a flaming logo.
And the background should be a tiled animated GIF. Gotta keep it subtle.
I'm put in mind of an early client of mine that absolutely refused to take any of my advice concerning design:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011127214330/http://www.lvwedd...
Vernacular/unprofessional web design is search engine driven these days – using what's in reach. Basically searching for "create a website" and using one of the guides and tools popping up in the search results.
For everything I built that never leaves my home network, I always use the HTML `marquee` tag somewhere, simply because I think it's funny and it's bizarrely still supported.
From their Github README.md:
"hipsterDB is a key/value store that only returns data as long as it isn't mainstream. The more often that you access a key the more mainstream it becomes. After data has gone mainstream you will have to wait for it to go out of style before using it again."
It clearly tells me what the product does unlike many landing pages these days. I often have to read docs to understand what a product does because someone decided to put too much effort to make it look unique.
EDIT: omfg SUN
Guessing the stats are fabricated
Premium users get analytics on their website - that was just supposed to highlight the analytics feature. I'll try to make it more clear that they aren't real stats (it's a demonstration of the feature)
you're hired :P
on a serious note, imo knowing exactly how to subvert a design or pattern shows not just mastery of the topic, but also flexiblity and when _not_ to use the thing
however, I saw what you had and it was great style.
I get a white page , a horizontal line and this content:
502 Bad Gateway nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
checks out
where's the dancing cat?
otherwise, bis!
You should switch more font sizes and mix in bold and italic
Huh ?