Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary

by indypb • 14 years ago

47 35 14 years ago

Where's the instructs? How do I makering these things? ;-) Would be nice to be able to get "plans" on how some of these things were made, even if they are simple coat hooks.

Not all of us are make-aware...

wowo1017• 14 years ago

Yes, definitely – we're working on how to make it easier and more attractive to add instructions, so hopefully you'll find more of them in the near future.

biot• 14 years ago

So it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?

endlessvoid94• 14 years ago

I already like this 100 times more than pinterest. I think it's a perfect slice.

stdbrouw• 14 years ago

It's not about the technology, it's about the purpose.

craze3• 14 years ago

Anyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?

antihero2• 14 years ago

It's like pinterest but with things we've done not things we've randomly found.

verganileonardo• 14 years ago

I use WorkFlowy.com to track what I did!

Every morning WorkFlowy sends me an email with all the tasks I accomplished the day before. This way, I can ensure that I'm being productive! :)

pfraze• 14 years ago

I cant recommend workflowy enough. It's my 2nd most-used app (gmail is 1st).

pranaya_ghimire• 14 years ago

Beautiful site. Maybe someone can do similar diy approach for startups.

jamesbritt• 14 years ago

It is really nice.

But since I'm already using Pinspire and can post my maker pix there, I'm hard pressed to see why I would join another site.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I also use Instructables, where I can also post details on how I made something as well as pix. But it's not as simple as just throwing a picture up on Pinspire.

wowo1017• 14 years ago

As of now, you're not missing anything. We started out as a place to collect stuff we made Pinterest-like, then discovered people wanted more Instructables-like information, and are now working on the – as we think – missing links: Connecting ideas via "remake/remix/inspired by" links and changing from a push-model of knowledge sharing to a pull-model.

As we are bootstrapping right now, things are moving slowly, but we hope in the right direction...

gcb• 14 years ago

"today i made a website that can't zoom out or scroll sideways on mobile"

Let's hope all pictures have the interesting portion to the far left.

citricsquid• 14 years ago

Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/?

dfamorato• 14 years ago

Same here, does not load at all... Caching/cloudflare would be nice...

michael_fine2• 14 years ago

I don't see why that would be worth $3 a month. In the vein of http://monkeymace.com/post/23937902775/all-you-need-is-e-mai..., why wouldn't you just have one email thread where everyone replies what they did? This seems over-engineered.

glimcat• 14 years ago

At a basic level, over 99% of the internet is text files and simple databases. Why would you have web pages?

The interface is often important.

yelhsa• 14 years ago

echoing someone else, the site doesn't load.

wowo1017• 14 years ago

Thanks all for your feedback! In fact, we're aiming at being "Pinterest meets Instructables" – knowledge porn for makers. We're in our very early stages, so the HN induced traffic surge hit us a little unaware. Also, we are working steadily on our posting and sharing features to get more instructs on the site – any feedback on that is highly appreciated!

popschedule• 14 years ago

You should store the image size ratio so you can pre-render all of your absolute positions before the images load entirely. There is a jump that happens when you reposition all of the boxes after the images load. noticed on a slow connection

wowo1017• 14 years ago

Yes, you're absolutely right on that one. It's on the ominous list of things to implement.

oonny• 14 years ago

didn't load for me, are there any screenshot?

pygorex• 14 years ago

Ouch. Says the site is down for maintenance. Can't even take a look.

Even so I don't really see the need for this site. When I launch a project I post it to my web site portfolio or blog then aggregate out to Twitter/Facebook/etc. What advantage are you offering over established publishing tools?

wowo1017• 14 years ago

Site's back up again, sorry for the downtime.

The idea behind todayimade is to collect and aggregate ideas for DIY projects in a very broad sense – stuff you make, sew, cook, craft, build etc., and to let people build on each other's ideas. Right now the feature set is really small, but we hope to implement stuff like "tell me more about how you made this or that" and "this inspired me to do that" in the near future.

blindgaenger• 14 years ago

Alright, the site is out of maintenance mode again. Sorry about that, but we didn't expect such high traffic. Next step … upscaling!

BrainScraps• 14 years ago

Someone else more eloquent than I advocated that we stop using curved drop shadows... I concur: http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2012/05/14/stop-using-cur...

walrus• 14 years ago

Maybe the background surface is curved ;)

rozap• 14 years ago

Which makes me nauseous.

antihero2• 14 years ago

The way I see it it's to subtly suggest to our heads that it's not the background that is curved back, but the box that has slightly curled up corners, offering an organic, 3D feel.

LarryMade• 14 years ago

Bookmarked - I don't do facebook or twitter though, so no content from me... Wheres tumblr integration?

wowo1017• 14 years ago

Tumblr integration is high on the list. Since we're working with very limited resources right now, it might take a little while till it's released, though.

tjic• 14 years ago

Today I baked four loaves of sourdough bread, forged a drawknife from an old leaf spring off my trucks, and replaced the capacitors in a guitar effects pedal.

Why do I care about this website?

droithomme• 14 years ago

Will there be actual accounts, or is twitter and facebook meant to be it for sign in?

wowo1017• 14 years ago

We'll have actual accounts in the near future, as well as Tumblr integration. Twitter and Facebook were natural choices for bootstrapping the site.

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