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Show HN: I built this website to help people with hashtags. Hope you'll enjoy it

hashtagoverload.me

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Satire requires a bit more groundwork than this really.

I thought this would look for words in your text that make for a good hashtag, e.g. converting "you only live once" to "#yolo", and make hashtags from nouns but not verbs and commonly used words. Unfortunately it seems to just put a "#" in front of every word, which (for me) isn't even worth it to go to that website, type my text, copy it over to twitter/instagram, paste it, then send it.

I think the main point of the site is the list of hashtag suggestions below your freshly hashtag-prefxed content. Mildly interesting idea, however the suggestions I got with a few tests weren't that awe-inspiring.

Putting a # in front of every word is not exactly what hashtags are meant to be for.

That's the joke :p

It's just not a very good one really, with all due respect.

In what way does this help people with hashtags? What problem is adressed? Just by looking at the use of hashtags by my non-technical acquaintances on Twitter or Facebook, nobody seems to have a problem with them. #confused

Idea for your next website: de-hashtagify a text. Implementation: something like s/#//g on the input text.

#satire #tongue-in-cheek.

I imagine it's in response to the fact people are hashtagging everything.

the developer here: yes, that is what it's about :)

#you #forgot #to #hashtag #your #comments #lol

It's an excellent riposte to the frankly silly amounts of hash tagging that's now occurring. I personally blame Instagram for it as the root cause.

yeah, if there's enough people who are confused about what this is about, I might write a blog post about it.

Yeah, thought about that too. Not very effective satire then, because this HN-announcement and the tweets by the developers don't give any hint that this is to be considered a joke. (Even though they would want it to appear as such by now.)

Well, another example covered by Poe's law.

I got that it was a joke straight away, maybe the humour hasn't carried well across the medium.

that's the joke - http://i.imgur.com/3Gpey.jpg lol

#This #might #be #a #joke #but #there's #actually #a #lot #of #fun #work #to #be #had #in #building #systems #that #can #auto-tag #text #(or #"auto #classification" #in #the #pre-hashtag #era #;-)).

#thank #you!

Shameless plug: if you really need something that can help you with hashtags, you can try my http://hashtagify.me/

developer here: Can't believe I met you here :) your domain was the first one that we wanted to buy but isn't available.

It's a little world ;)

PS: Please, don't sue me, I'm still bootstrapping :D

The $('.pure-g h3.l-hashtags')-Headline is driving me insane.

I guess this is not satire, since this tool suggests some tags. (I guess the hashtagging of every word is just a little side-joke.)

It seems like a joke , but then kinda doesn't... 2 stars.

It's a joke. Trust me.

http://instantrimshot.com/

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when there are 3+ hashtags?

You're not the only one ;)

i dont get it. is this meant to be humorous? also - why did it take 3 people to build this?

Yes, I don't get it either. I guess that with the web now, this is what it looks like as people learn programming? I know for me my thrill in programming growing up was to write some dumb game that worked on console and then convince my parents and friends to use it. I guess this is the equivalent? The fun thing these days, you can get thousands of users and maybe do something with it other than immediately discard it. So, I see these as Hello Worlds to the next level.

#satire

#classy

#hashtagyoloswag

#bump

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