Building a Web App in 1 Hour For Promotional Purposes (IsHilarySwankHot.com)
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This is a good example of creative thinking, but you should have waited until the experiment ran its course and reported on the results. I'm guessing that the number of sign ups won't be worth the 1 hour spent coding the app. You'd be better off working on something worthwhile and buying some traffic through Adwords.
Not really. It helps a discussion of people have a common understanding of terms.
Taking it a bit further, this phrase, and many others like it, belie the difference between a traditional chronological conversation, and the multithreaded conversation possible on the web. When you can branch off in different directions at the same time, without losing focus on any individual branch, there's no longer a reason to keep "on message" or "to the argument at hand"--both statements on- and off-topic can be expressed with equal exposure, and without anyone being distracted from one by the other.
What I got from the post over all was the suggestion that the poster was merely arguing semantics, as if insisting on precise use of words was not important, or that it's OK to knowingly misuse words in the service of some vague higher motive.
"Stop bloating your shit, and you'll be able to do shit fast" -- I'll keep that in mind next time I have an idea that requires two buttons on a webpage. Hopefully I'll manage.
Finally, there is really nothing new about this, other than how timely it was put out. Other than that, it's clearly a gimmick that I wouldn't be too proud of. Imagine if I created a site that said "click here to win a free 6-pack of beer" and then went on in a blog post about how "people like the idea of getting free stuff" and "what people like better, though, is getting free stuff with minimal effort." And then going on and on about it, as if I'm the expert.
I don't know why I'm being so harsh.. this is just what's coming to mind. It's nothing personal, I just don't like this gimmicky stuff, I guess :)
Yeah, it's hard to bloat a 2 button web app up. When I talk about not bloating shit, I mean your overall frame of mind. If youre all about making things complicated, too many features, and a bureaucracy, I doubt you'd be in the mindset to make a simple web app. It's not about capability, it's about clarity.
It's gimmicky, it's fun, and people enjoy it. We've already reaped some pretty damn cool benefits from it (users to ramamia, coverage on the site, and contacts). Like i said in a comment earlier, it's okay to make something out of enjoyment. I think that's my favorite part about the web, you can put something together in an hour for shits and giggles just because you want to.
It works.
Looks like the cookie the only thing from keeping people from voting more than once.
To everyone here:
How else could you keep people from vote bombing low friction (no required login) sites like this one?
Does it even matter in this case?
Why the hell are people voting NO?
It works because to see a Yes/No it depends on if you have the cookie set, but to actually vote it checks the IP.
So if someone legitimately votes from a multi-user IP that already was used to vote, it'll show a Yes/No, get sent to the vote page, but won't go in–but it'll seem like it did :)
Sure, you can create a gimmick similar to this one, but eventually people will want to see the real meat that tells them you can be trusted. If you want sign-ups there are definitely better ways on a per-hour or per-dollar invested basis. But it can be fun every once in a while. Just be careful it won't cut some of your reputation as a worthwhile company away.
that said, it's the marketing equivalent of a lottery ticket; stunts can be huge (for example, our critical mass at dropbox came from one carefully-crafted digg post) but only if they're aligned with the target audience (which probably isn't the case with hilary swank & family social networking)
btw, which digg article are you referring to?
Dropbox (GDrive Killer) finally launches, plus Linux+iPhone!
http://m.digg.com/software/Dropbox_GDrive_Killer_finally_lau...
And yes I dugg it.
The links in A,CNAME etc was confusing, I thought it was more like a search option. i.e to list only CNAME record etc(just like search web,images)
The report bugs/features should ideally be a form. Its very frustrating when clicking on that starts to open a mail client.
Otherwise looks good, pretty fast.
The twit this button is a good idea.
I'll see if many people use that.
That way you can use one domain for all your polling.
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