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Review my website: Cornify

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Cornify is all about giving internet users choice of customization. MySpace is a great example of a successful company with a similar vision. Facebook with its Windows 3.1 look - not so much. Cornify provides a service that allows users to cover any website in a beautiful array of unicorn and rainbow imagery - taking back the web one 'corn at a time.

To give credit where credit is due, this concept was heavily inspired by AddThis.

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I almost cried when a unicorn covered up the "cornify" button and I had to stop.

I was wondering if that's a bug or a feature...

Do you have firebug installed?

for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { cornify_add() }

A lot of the comments here seem to be enjoying the joke and having fun, but shouldn't we take the review requests on HN a little more seriously? It's the only resource on the web that allows for this form of quality feedback from such great talent and experience as is present on HN. I'd just hate to start seeing it abused, and then fade away as people stop paying attention to the review requests.

edit: Or maybe I should just cornify my site :-)

Take a look at Cornify's comments ;-)

If the site is a serious venture, then review requests here do seem to be taken seriously ...

This is bound to "go viral" and have "organic growth"

If I were you I'd start seeking VC immediately. At the end of the day, this idea is so simple, so uniquely brilliant and really well executed that you can worry about a business model after you're done acquiring users.

BRILLIANT!

No worries, the business model is fully thought through. We're expecting to be profitable in phase 3.

ten year old girls is definitely an untapped market opportunity just waiting for monetary exploitation by devious but brilliant entrepreneurs eager to enhance shareholder value.

I'm sure Mattell are shaking in their pants, knowing that their core market is about to be exploited heavily by a soon to be funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and quickly acquired by Google, company much more aligned with web 2.0 and an uncanny ability to align the interests of multiple stakeholders in the fast changing world of international webcommerce.

I made a bookmarklet:

javascript:if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}else{cornify_add()};

First click loads it, subsequent clicks add a new image.

Now you can Cornify Hacker News too! http://skitch.com/tlrobinson/bddmx/hacker-news-cornified

Some support please! I can't get the bookmarklet to work (it just loads the text of the url) and I MUST HAVE A CORNIFY BOOMARKLET! Thanks.

What browser? I only tested on Safari. Try this:

    javascript:(function(){if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){
    document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src=
    'http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}
    else{cornify_add()}})();

(remove the newlines)

It does exactly what it says it will, and it does it with style.

Highly recommended. Would corn again.

I must agree, this is the number one unicorns and rainbow adding site on the internet. I am disappointed that they don't frolic about and they appear blind the concept of whitespace areas, perhaps in the "pro" edition.

I am also a bit ashamed that I executed a stranger's Javascript in my Hacker News context. Who knows what just happened to my cookie? (Ok, I just read the URL and I'm safe, at least for the javascript present the instant I downloaded it.)

Sorry to disappoint you. We're focusing on "less is more" and after long debates we decided that frolicing was something our users could live without. We take your feedback serious and if there is more user request, we will certainly be open to a later implementation.

This should've been "Review my STARTUP"!

It's all fun and games until you execute this on facebook and the Unicorns steal your cookie and hijack your account.

Yes, bookmarklets can do that.

I've got a fever ... and the only cure is more unicorns.

yea, I like the glitter! If I could move them around, and if I kept clicking the button they popped up, that would be super cool.

Also, perhaps after overuse, it showed the occasional raincloud?

Definitely, the first thing I tried to do was drag them around. +1 for that feature!

I'm obviously doing something wrong. Nothing happens when I click the button, and I can't drag the link at right to my toolbar. I spent 3 minutes trying all sorts of things, and have given up.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I'm using IE7 on Windows XP Home, and I have JavaScript turned on. I don't see unicorns, glitter, or any changes.

Sorry. Will fix this issue asap.

IE7 doesn't allow bookmarklets to be dragged to the Links toolbar, presumably due to the security risk. Instead, right-click and Add to favorites...

I've added it to favorites, but it's still the case that nothing's happening. I click on the link at the left, and nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? What should happen when I click on the link at left?

Feature request: Additional pictures, please. You do not have a suitable variety to satiate my thirst for Unicorns and rainbows.

Additionally, a Unicorn puking rainbows would make me invest.

I actually thought it was quite the fun idea. My only suggestions are to increase the number of pictures (and thus the cuteness) as well as allow for the pictures to be dragged around. I don't want to stop clicking "cornify" if the button gets covered up :)

Who said this is going to be a bad year for IPOs?

Installed: http://bit.ly/Akao

How about putting [joke] or something in the title, so those of us short on time can skip it?

Normally I'd agree with you, but this is a 10 second diversion, and you have to be a robot not to find the concept cute and unique.

I ro-bot. Still find joke fu-nny.

You've had lots of positive feedback, and I'm sure it's a good idea, but it's caused me nothing but trouble.

Firstly - and you'll see this in my earlier comments, it simply didn't work for me on IE7/XP Home edition. Now it works (Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 on SuSE 10.1) but when I closed the tab the "music" kept running.

How many browser/OS combinations have you tested this on? I'm left with a machine that I may have to reboot to get control back of the sound system, and I'm not a happy customer. If you do this to people "in the wild" you may get some comment significantly more negative than this one.

I just fell off my chair.

I just cornified my blog.

I'm totally going to use this.

Seriously. I just added it to my personal website (down at the bottom): http://tlrobinson.net/

My daughter loves it.

this is kind of cute, but not entertaining enough to make the lack of intellectual interestingness worthwhile. execution ok but not stellar: graphics are large and invasive.

with a little thought this could have been cute. inject the images into the dom, maybe to replace advertisements or brighten logos. do a little data mining or randomness to inject stormclouds every-so-often. do something cute when used on weather sites.

What about: "Review my StartDOWN" ?

I have an extensive collection of unicorn artwork and imagery. How do I get them to you?

It would be nice to calculate the offset of the "Cornify" button (when it uses the button instead of the bookmarklet) so that when you generate some insane amounts of unicorns they don't cover the "Cornify" button.

If I could make a suggestion: Multiple cornify buttons. It is awesome fun to keep hitting the button, so more means you can have a sillier screen :)

an "uncornify" bookmarklet might be nice. As much as I "love" the cornification, sometimes it blocks something important.

Hilarious stuff. I know a lot of people who would enjoy this if it also dropped Hello Kitty all over the page. :)

am I missing something?

Great business model!

Put it on my site.

Y'all can laugh -- good lord, I did, thanks Cornify! -- but you'd be shocked & awed to learn the money people make with stuff that's not far removed from this.

Viva la difference!

I got corned. Damn.

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