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http://isitasnack.com

by katieben • 15 years ago

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isitasnack.com

Is it a snack?

For some reason I'm cracking up over this. (:

jjs• 15 years ago

Hmm... 67% of users agree that "Swedish Opera Singer" is indeed a good snack.

tomjen3• 15 years ago

Hm that is almost twice as much as those who would want to eat a todler.

Ysx• 15 years ago

I don't know why this is so entertaining. Puppy! You're a snack!

petercooper• 15 years ago

Anything with a quick fire succession of images and an easily made choice seems to be mildly addictive in a large subset of people. Facemash and Hot or Not being two old examples, but there was one by a HN regular that went viral just a few weeks ago too.. One has to wonder how far you can go with the concept.

udp• 15 years ago

There is something surprisingly amusing about declaring things like 'koala' as a snack. It must be an evolutionary thing - the amused feeling is just a suppressed urge to kill and eat anything that moves.

katieben4• 15 years ago

Haha, the animals are getting a higher percentage of "yes" votes than the inanimate objects. (: With the monkey, someone said, "he looked so cute and innocent that i had to accept him as a snack!". Haha this is surprisingly entertaining.

nickff• 15 years ago

It may sound stupid to say this, but when I first clicked through, I did not read the top horizontal bar, and thought the question was whether the item was the word above the picture; as a result, I did not even realize that the question was whether it was a snack, and I answered the question wrong a number of times. I think I learned a valuable lesson in UX design from this, thank you!

katieben4• 15 years ago

Thanks for sharing, UX lesson for me too. I've made it more obvious now. (:

keyle• 15 years ago

Maybe your next project should be photos of flying saucers and the question "Is this a threat?".

katieben4• 15 years ago

Dude, yes. HN style - with Color and a web bubble to boot!

thomasswift2• 15 years ago

I was amused for a good few minutes. I think if your really wondering if something is a snack or not, you might want to put actual snacks items instead of full blown dinner options. I think you will be getting answers to more of the question of Is it edible? which a CD is not.

I stopped at this one. Is this a snack: dinner? - No, it's dinner. :)

katieben4• 15 years ago

Yay! Well, the joke is supposed to be that the alien doesn't know what's appropriate to eat and what is not. Re: nickff's comment, I think that top bar actually gets lost. I put a tiny alien head next to the question to make it clearer. (:

thomasswift2• 15 years ago

Ah! I get it now, I guess I was being a bit thick.

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