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Honest question: what's the point of this? I entered the URLs and hit a page of somewhat nicely formatted thumbnails. Now what do I do?

Now here's me being nitpicky (take it as constructive criticism):

- What does the name mean and how do I pronounce it? Does it relate to the service?

- The only text on the landing page is "enter a bunch of URLS, create a beautiful collection" so I take it that is supposed to mean something, but I have no idea what. A collection of what? Why would I do this? Pretend your user has never landed on your site before and has no idea why they should use your service (hint: they haven't and they don't).

- In the collection, why would I want to enter a title? This makes me think that maybe I'm supposed to share my collection with other people, but I'm not sure. Can they change the title as well?

- Nice touch with the edit-in-place for the title, but it didn't work as expected. I realized on the third attempt that I have to press "enter" to save the title. I expected it to post on blur, else it should hint that I'm supposed to press "enter".

- Tell me why I should share my collection with other people. Dropping a facebook plugin on the page does not make it inherently social. Give me a reason to share.

- One of the URLs I entered uses Google web fonts. It looks like your thumbnail generation didn't pick up on these, so the snapshot looks broken.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write. Domain name does not mean anything its just a spare domain I had in hand (it is actually Turkish and not related). I didn't think this as a service its just a two day thing I coded up. Its quite obvious that there are lots of missing features, I did not even think of a homepage just like you pointed out.

I usually find myself sending a bulk of links to other people about various things (may be a list of jQuery plugins for a certain job) and such a conversation, most of the time in email, is not really convenient. For now this tool is for sharing a temporary bunch of urls in a beautiful and discussable format.

Edit in place is hard to figure out I admit, may be I can show save and cancel buttons there instead of submit on enter. Your collection title is only editable for you just after you land on that page. When you share the url of your collection it is not editable anymore. Snapshot generation has some features missing like flash and javascript support but should cover most of the sites.

Great. Now I know something I could use it for. I suggest you add some copy to that effect. Something like:

'Need to send a client bunch of links, do it with style.'

Will definitely give some shape to the service according to the usage patterns. Your motto suggestion looks good =)

I entered some random URLs I had open, hit the button, and got an alert "Something is definitely wrong" when I entered a URL with several parameters: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SlickdealsnetFP+%28SlickDeals.net+Frontpage%29

I removed this bit and it worked fine.

Did you already implement jk86's unique URLs suggestion? It looks like you did!

It gives the warning when thumbnail generation failed for some urls and less than 2 urls left for displaying. Actually I did not implement it yet just watching the real time visitors from GA =)

I like it too.

Suggestions: - decrease the page width some. Both hainbit1.png and hainbit2.png are partly cut-off at normal browser widths. - add captions to each URL. (As jk86 suggested, delicious integration would be neat.) - ability to drag and rearrange the link boxes.

Thanks! You are right about the main page width. I always have this problem because of using a 1920x1080 resolution. Thanks for the suggestions I will hopefully improve this project.

Nice! What are you using to generate your thumbnails? Are you outsourcing that to a thumbnail service, or is it roll-your-own? (Judging by the image URLs, I'm guessing the latter. Awesome if so.)

Yup its generated on my server I don't really like the thumbnail generation services

Wow very good looking for a 48 hour project. I think it would be nice to have some option to save the page for later access. You may consider using an external service integration for this may be delicious with special tags?

Thanks! Good idea, if delicious api is still working =)

Nice project. Tabbing doesn't focus on the generate button, it skips to the email link. Should probably fix that, but minor issue.

Awesome - Needs some improvements/additions but if you did this much in 48 hours I think it won't be a problem.

Definitely needs a lot, if I have time I will improve this I really enjoyed developing it.

Cool, I will definitely use this. Delicious addition would be awesome though also rearranging the urls.

some feedback: + Definitely decrease the width of the main page. + The collection page looks a little too gray may be add some kind of coloring. + I could not figure out that you can change the title until my second try. Need a better way to edit title.

I think there is a bug if you only enter 1 link (it gives the "Something went wrong" popup).

It is on purpose. Sharing just one url is not the intention.

You misspelled definitely in your javascript alert when empty text is submitted.