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Show HN : My (current) Weekend Project - I am, I do

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Hi HN,

This weekend I'm at a hackday and the theme is 'dreams', My dream is to get people working on what they love and find inspiration, I find my inspiration in the people around me and the people doing what I want to do, so we asked 30 friends 6 questions each and put the results online, we've had an amazing response with some really thoughtful answers and now we've opened it up to everyone, we've got about 3 hours left before we have to present the hack and I'd love to reach 100 responses (we currently have 50).

It uses twitter bootstrap as a default and I know that HN is getting a bit sick of it but it makes knocking up something quickly so easy and for hackdays I really thing it's perfect.

We've got about 4 features to implement as well so I'll be checking back whilst we code :)

Currently working on

* favouring an answer from someone to create a scrapbook of inspiration (we joking call inspr-paper ;) )

* showing on the sidebar people who are similar to you but your not following

Knocking something out, I think.

Cool, nice work. I think the "I do blah" can be awkward but I like the focus.

For fun, my friend and I made a similar site called http://threeabout.me (profile example: http://threeabout.me/max). It's centered around describing yourself with the three most important things you want people to know about you.

I think we both desire some kind of online profile that has limits, kind of like describing yourself in a tweet.

Hey,

It's not aimed so much about having an online profile for yourself with constraints, but to inspire others and be inspired yourself. Three about me looks neat though, interesting to see how creative people can be when constrained in describing themselves.

Nice idea.Greatly executed.Clean design. But I have very small doubt. When people say this is 3 hour project and weekend project, do they mean buying the domain and hosting solution and deploying along with coding the website.All of those tasks fall into that 3 hrs or that weekend? I understand that this is done in hack day competition and my question may not apply to this case, but what is it in general

Hi Sravfeyn,

Yep, we came up with the idea on Saturday morning, bought the domain name last night and spent from midday yesterday to this second coding it :)

I'm not sure about others but our weekend projects are generally weekend projects..

Thanks for the clarification :)

Really cool idea. It's a lot of fun just randomly browsing around and reading peoples' stories.

Tiny annoyance: the line-height: 36px (application.css:23) makes wrapped section headings look strange. One simple fix is to replace that with margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px;.

Glad you like it!

Integrated your CSS change, many thanks :-)

Beautiful. Simple, does what it does, clean layout. Really nice.

Would be cool to be able to search by what people do as well as names, unless it's there and I'm just missing it. I'd like to see what other people doing (say, software development) have to say.

Hi Alex,

We've not added the ability to search by "do" yet, but if you view someone's profile and click on their "do" activity it'll list all other users with that "do" entered. I'll stick the searching on the todo list. :-)

Thanks for the kind words and glad you like it!

> clean layout

Yes, http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap is awesome - although it's use getting a bit inflationary.

I'd like to be able to browse random people easier. A big "Show me another!" button would be cool. Then I could just sit there and while away the hours reading random thoughts from random people.

Interesting suggestion! Definitely something I'd love personally as well, it's firmly on the todo list. Thanks! :-)

I love it. Here's my profile: http://iamido.info/users/23963-natan-yellin

I'm [the other] co-author of it. Thank you very much, and glad you love it! :-)

cool, I like it.

I had a similar idea rumbling around my head for a few months now (basically "I live here and I do X"), but the twist you've added of making it stories about people is nice.

Some feedback:

* Add geographic location and show people near you

* Change "you have no friends" to "you have no friends yet. why not invite some?"

Hi Natan,

Good ideas thanks. Geographic location would definitely be interesting, I'll put it on the todo list. And I've tweaked the wording of the friends panel if it's empty. Knew we'd overlook something!

Thanks again.

One more suggestion: change the Twitter and Facebook posts to "I am ___, I do ___" and a link. It is mysterious and doesn't look spammy.

Definitely an interesting next step into this geek list-like area. Keep it up and stay with it.

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