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Instant Motivation

instamotivation.com

My personal fav: http://minimotivation.com/

This is brilliant. The irony is subtle but it's completely brilliant. "Do more by reading quotes which might encourage you to do more instead of actually doing more."

Fun. Would be nice to have a way to attribute the quotes, so you show quotes from notable people. Sometimes a quote is inspiring for who says it as much as for what it says.

The HN title is incorrect; instantmotivation.com is a squatter. It should be instamotivation.com

I'm wondering if maybe by getting these kinds of instant motivation bursts you're attacking a symptom instead of the problem.

Thank you. This has become my one and only default homepage that I open up starting each day.

It repeats the same motivational messages, maybe it would be better if it just ran out...

Nah, just need more messages.

We're working on it! Lots more to be added thanks to some awesome submissions.

The whole thing is a marketing gimmick anyway, since the OP runs the blog that you go to when you click on "I'm motivated". It's probably like that by design.

Funny you mention that. When I'm motivated, I just close it.

With so much inspiration floating around (and fixed to every wall in the office), I find http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html refreshing.

Pretty cool idea to change background color with meaningful quotes! easy but inspiring for lives!

maybe you can try to enhance it by adding more quotes and making the relationship between quotes and colors.

Mind blowing! Last night I thought of building the same thing with user submitted content. But, I was going to use the domain motivation.io (as in input/output).

Great minds think alike, I suppose :)

My friend and I made something similar, for photographers: http://www.youknowyoureaphotographerwhen.com

Nice!

Are the background images huge? They took a long time to load :(

The background images are user submitted, but we limit to 400kB to keep a good quality, these are photographers after all ;)

Does any know if there are any scripts/css around that could help me create something like this? I'm more of a tinkerer than a coder

I was just thinking a hackernews userscript that tossed these up somewhere in the layout might be good, given the audience. The core of it's just picking a random quote from an array so it should be simple. You could select lines or quotes from users and add them to the queue with LocalStorage or something.

I am now apparently working on this...

haha look forward to seeing it! Letme know when you get it up and running @mutlu82

Since it looks like this is going to take a while (long long long after anyone will care), here's where I am now:

https://gist.github.com/4220255

All it does is take a random quote from the array and stick it in an extra table row, and there's a link that alerts text selected by the mouse (which is currently pointless) and I need to do all the localstorage stuff but yeah.

Pretty cool.

Could be improved with a fading background and keeping the bottom links in the same place when progressing. :)

I like the colours - how do you come up with colours that look stylish like these, but aren't garish or crude?

These colors are from Greatist's Brand Guidelines!

Very nice. Bookmarked! (I don't have many bookmarks, so this is a prestigious position in my browser.)

It would be good to have an API so it can be combined with Pomodoro widgets.

What font did you use?

It's the "Avenir" family of fonts.

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