alexkearns

An interactive timeline showcasing all the books I have read (or at least, the books I can remember reading)

Not quite the same but we created a timeline ordering game for US presidents: https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1842261/US-Presiden...

You can also use our app to create timeline ordering games on subjects of your own choosing.

That's weird. It works perfectly for men much older computers and also on my M2 Mac Pro. What version of OSX are you using? I created that product, btw.

Ha! That's my product. Thanks for mentioning!

I used a similar technique to create glass-like panels with my online timeline maker (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com). You can see an example timeline with glass-like panels here: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3118/Home-...

Do you mean a list of all monarchs in the world?

Thanks for the tip. I will take a look.

If you are interested in timeline visualisations, you might like this list I compiled of innovative timeline designs: https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...

I posted this a year and a half ago but got no response. Trying again now as RoughJS is currently trending, and there might be some interest. Would love to know what people think of hand-drawn style timelines.

Credit to Preet Shihn (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shihn) for creating the RoughJS library (https://roughjs.com) that enabled us to achieve the "hand-drawn" look for the timelines.

Fantastic library. I used it to create beautiful hand-drawn style interactive timelines. See https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...

Thanks for the suggestion. Mehrgarh is a very important archeological site. But according to wikipedia ancient history has a very specific meaning. If my interpretation is correct, ancient history starts from the beginning of writing or recorded history, which Mehrgarh predates. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history

If you are interested in the far past, you might consider taking look at an interactive timeline of ancient history I created using data from Wikipedia: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/4392/Ancie...

A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options.

Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronoflocalendar.com

I have long been fascinated by timeline designs. So this is right up my street. So impressive what these artists of old managed to create without access to computers and design software.

For more modern timeline visualisations, you might be interested in this list of timeline designs I compiled:

https://www.tiki-toki.com/blog/entry/ten-amazing-online-time...

That's a good idea. We have created one educational timeline on US presidents (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...) but could do with creating a lot more.

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback. Some good advice there. The feeds idea is a great suggestion.

Thanks. Will take a look.

Thanks for taking the time to offer feedback. It is definitely niche-ish. I don't expect this to turn into a billion dollar company. But a few thousand or so paying customers would be nice!

I am thinking the following markets:

1. Company history timelines (for company's celebrating an anniversary) 2. Educational timelines for use in schools and universities 3. News timelines created by journalists covering a major new event 4. Legal timelines 5. Personal timelines

Fixed. Thanks!

I am sure /shownew gets substantially less visits than /show. And /show does not get many. I wouldn't be surprised if the main way that Show HNs end up on the home page is because lots of the developer's friends give them upvotes.

Giving greater profile to /shownew is a good idea that I would get behind.

I have run a little experiment. Published a Show HN. In the last 30 minutes, I have had around 37 visits via your app. And zero via Hacker News' Show HN page.

I think Hacker News needs to do more to highlight Show HNs. Lots of them just disappear without trace and with no-one commenting on them. So I like what you have done. It brings some much-needed attention to Show HN.

I posted about ChronoFlo six months ago. And got no response from the community. Since then, I have added a ton of new features, including hand-drawn style timelines using RoughJS:

More info about hand-drawn-style timelines here: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...

Here's a timeline we created about US presidents: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

I am the creator of this. Would love to know what you all think?

Great job - your timeline widget looks really neat. I look forward to seeing how it develops in future.

For your interest, there is a small group of hobbyist developers and small companies developing timeline products for the web.

As the developer of ChronoFlo Timeline Maker (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com), I welcome you to the timeline maker community!

Good luck with your project.

Credit to Preet Shihn (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shihn) for creating the RoughJS library (https://roughjs.com) that enabled us to achieve the "hand-drawn" look for the timelines.

Thanks for providing the feeds. I have just used them to create an interactive timeline showing the latest 100 Hacker News submissions: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3221/Hacke...

I am the creator of this. Have been building this over the past year or so. Technologies include: HTML5 canvas, CSS filters and a lot of JS.

To give you an idea of what you can make with ChronoFlo Timeline Maker, we created an interactive timeline of US presidents: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

Would love to know what you all think?

I've been working on an interactive timeline of US presidents to promote a new timeline maker product I will be launching soon.

https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

This one is much prettier and no ads: http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table

Congrats on a great product. I developed an SAAS calendar service - https://www.chronoflocalendar.com - which alas has not proved very successful, thus far. So is heartening to hear that it is possible to make a living out of calendar software. There is hope for me yet!