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getinspired365.com

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It is a nice idea

But reading text that subtly moves towards you on a full-screen browser makes me a bit seasick, and the maximized images make things feel a little wonky to me.

Despite the poignant quote, seeing Abraham Lincoln's face slowly coming towards me was uncomfortable.

Ken Burns shot done creepily? I agree. It was kinda weird.

That was a little touch we put in at the end but can quite easily remove if people don't like it..

I thought the same. Still cool site though.

Sorry for my joke. It's a great site.

I kind of liked the slight movement, but maybe it'd be more well recepted if it was a nicer picture to look at.

It made me feel slightly dizzy, and the image stretch was off putting as well.

Where's the email signup? Kinda cool, but I'm not going to check this site every day unless you email me.

Pretty cool. Once tiny design hitch would be the flash that accompanies scrolling through the quotes. Each time the screen flashes a few times which is off putting.

A side note on that: There are people from non-profit photosensitive epilepsy foundations that scour the net for that kind of stuff. I've gotten emails about it before...it was an interesting discussion about such design features.

Nice site/idea. I would try to get some better images (the low resolution when stretched to my screen isn't too nice). Overall though, very cool.

Will have a look, thanks. Any pictures in particular or is it the majority?

I like it. Could we get it emailed to us every day?

Cool, thanks! Yes so we were thinking of having that feature - where you could get it mailed each day/each week depending on your preference. We will look to build that in. thanks!

I'm afraid that quote is bogus. Abraham Lincoln didn't say things that sound like Hallmark Cards, because no one in the 19th century did.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/

Give one of the other quotes a go...

Edit: this was pointless and is better deleted.

If the quotes are winding you up, give the videos a go..

Yeah, this is not working for me. I have far better inspiration sources online. Notes from Universe or something is pretty awesome, there are others.

http://www.tut.com/

This is really nice.

How can I make sure I check it every day?

The million dollar question! It's a good point - so we thought about asking people if they wanted daily reminders via email? If we offered that type of option would that be of interest? We also wondered if we could make it easy for you to change your homepage to our site. Any other ways/ideas you can think of? Thanks

A daily email newsletter would be a great easy place to start. Lots of people would sign up if you made it frictionless. Bear in mind that, with a daily email, lots of people will ignore it or delete it unread if they are busy (as opposed to unsubscribing), so don't trust your subscription numbers, but lots of people will get value out of it too.

The other option that comes to mind would be a background app that changes your wallpaper to your image (with quotation) daily. Or maybe a browser extension that changes your homepage/speed dial background to this periodically.

If you want to try mobile, you could make an app that changes the phone's lock screen each day. But promoting the app would be difficult.

Great execution. This had roughly been my plan for Motivately.com but I moved on to other projects. Nice work!

Pretty cool. I like the video-as-background. Good front end UI.

I agree with the email every day idea.

I think this would be much better as an email newsletter.

(You could also place adds on it that way)

How are all of the pages generated? Are they all curated user submissions?

So my friend and I have added 365 bits of inspiration - one for each day. We then have a separate part of the site where a user can press 'submit' (bottom right corner) and submit their own inspiration. This can then be viewed by clicking 'shared inspiration' - again bottom right. So the site has two parts to it - a social type of part and then a daily dose part.

Quite similar to changemakrs.com in layout and intention. I like it.

Cool, thanks. Never seen this site - will check it out.

Thank you. You've made the world a little bit better.

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