Review my website: Cornify

http://www.cornify.com

by Cornify • 17 years ago

61 46 17 years ago

Cornify is all about giving internet users choice of customization. MySpace is a great example of a successful company with a similar vision. Facebook with its Windows 3.1 look - not so much. Cornify provides a service that allows users to cover any website in a beautiful array of unicorn and rainbow imagery - taking back the web one 'corn at a time.

To give credit where credit is due, this concept was heavily inspired by AddThis.

jws• 17 years ago

I must agree, this is the number one unicorns and rainbow adding site on the internet. I am disappointed that they don't frolic about and they appear blind the concept of whitespace areas, perhaps in the "pro" edition.

I am also a bit ashamed that I executed a stranger's Javascript in my Hacker News context. Who knows what just happened to my cookie? (Ok, I just read the URL and I'm safe, at least for the javascript present the instant I downloaded it.)

Cornify3• 17 years ago

Sorry to disappoint you. We're focusing on "less is more" and after long debates we decided that frolicing was something our users could live without. We take your feedback serious and if there is more user request, we will certainly be open to a later implementation.

jhickner2• 17 years ago

It does exactly what it says it will, and it does it with style.

Highly recommended. Would corn again.

jff• 17 years ago

I almost cried when a unicorn covered up the "cornify" button and I had to stop.

bk• 17 years ago

I was wondering if that's a bug or a feature...

jrichmond• 17 years ago

Do you have firebug installed?

for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) { cornify_add() }

callmeed• 17 years ago

I've got a fever ... and the only cure is more unicorns.

cjoh• 17 years ago

This is bound to "go viral" and have "organic growth"

If I were you I'd start seeking VC immediately. At the end of the day, this idea is so simple, so uniquely brilliant and really well executed that you can worry about a business model after you're done acquiring users.

BRILLIANT!

Cornify3• 17 years ago

No worries, the business model is fully thought through. We're expecting to be profitable in phase 3.

mixmax• 17 years ago

ten year old girls is definitely an untapped market opportunity just waiting for monetary exploitation by devious but brilliant entrepreneurs eager to enhance shareholder value.

I'm sure Mattell are shaking in their pants, knowing that their core market is about to be exploited heavily by a soon to be funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and quickly acquired by Google, company much more aligned with web 2.0 and an uncanny ability to align the interests of multiple stakeholders in the fast changing world of international webcommerce.

cmos• 17 years ago

yea, I like the glitter! If I could move them around, and if I kept clicking the button they popped up, that would be super cool.

Also, perhaps after overuse, it showed the occasional raincloud?

jhickner2• 17 years ago

Definitely, the first thing I tried to do was drag them around. +1 for that feature!

daveambrose2• 17 years ago

I just fell off my chair.

daveambrose2• 17 years ago

I just cornified my blog.

RiderOfGiraffes3• 17 years ago

I'm obviously doing something wrong. Nothing happens when I click the button, and I can't drag the link at right to my toolbar. I spent 3 minutes trying all sorts of things, and have given up.

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I'm using IE7 on Windows XP Home, and I have JavaScript turned on. I don't see unicorns, glitter, or any changes.

Cornify3• 17 years ago

Sorry. Will fix this issue asap.

tower10• 17 years ago

IE7 doesn't allow bookmarklets to be dragged to the Links toolbar, presumably due to the security risk. Instead, right-click and Add to favorites...

RiderOfGiraffes3• 17 years ago

I've added it to favorites, but it's still the case that nothing's happening. I click on the link at the left, and nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? What should happen when I click on the link at left?

ivankirigin• 17 years ago

Who said this is going to be a bad year for IPOs?

Installed: http://bit.ly/Akao

psyklic2• 17 years ago

This should've been "Review my STARTUP"!

diN0bot• 17 years ago

this is kind of cute, but not entertaining enough to make the lack of intellectual interestingness worthwhile. execution ok but not stellar: graphics are large and invasive.

with a little thought this could have been cute. inject the images into the dom, maybe to replace advertisements or brighten logos. do a little data mining or randomness to inject stormclouds every-so-often. do something cute when used on weather sites.

sam_in_nyc• 17 years ago

It's all fun and games until you execute this on facebook and the Unicorns steal your cookie and hijack your account.

Yes, bookmarklets can do that.

volida• 17 years ago

am I missing something?

sgk284• 17 years ago

A lot of the comments here seem to be enjoying the joke and having fun, but shouldn't we take the review requests on HN a little more seriously? It's the only resource on the web that allows for this form of quality feedback from such great talent and experience as is present on HN. I'd just hate to start seeing it abused, and then fade away as people stop paying attention to the review requests.

edit: Or maybe I should just cornify my site :-)

psyklic2• 17 years ago

Take a look at Cornify's comments ;-)

If the site is a serious venture, then review requests here do seem to be taken seriously ...

tdavis• 17 years ago

Feature request: Additional pictures, please. You do not have a suitable variety to satiate my thirst for Unicorns and rainbows.

Additionally, a Unicorn puking rainbows would make me invest.

stephen• 17 years ago

My daughter loves it.

yef• 17 years ago

How about putting [joke] or something in the title, so those of us short on time can skip it?

jskopek• 17 years ago

Normally I'd agree with you, but this is a 10 second diversion, and you have to be a robot not to find the concept cute and unique.

ezequiel2• 17 years ago

I ro-bot. Still find joke fu-nny.

jackowayed• 17 years ago

an "uncornify" bookmarklet might be nice. As much as I "love" the cornification, sometimes it blocks something important.

tlrobinson3• 17 years ago

I'm totally going to use this.

Seriously. I just added it to my personal website (down at the bottom): http://tlrobinson.net/

tlrobinson3• 17 years ago

I made a bookmarklet:

javascript:if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}else{cornify_add()};

First click loads it, subsequent clicks add a new image.

Now you can Cornify Hacker News too! http://skitch.com/tlrobinson/bddmx/hacker-news-cornified

talleyrand• 17 years ago

Some support please! I can't get the bookmarklet to work (it just loads the text of the url) and I MUST HAVE A CORNIFY BOOMARKLET! Thanks.

tlrobinson3• 17 years ago

What browser? I only tested on Safari. Try this:

    javascript:(function(){if(typeof cornify_add==="undefined"){
    document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src=
    'http://www.cornify.com/js/cornify.js';}
    else{cornify_add()}})();

(remove the newlines)

nirmal• 17 years ago

Hilarious stuff. I know a lot of people who would enjoy this if it also dropped Hello Kitty all over the page. :)

ezequiel2• 17 years ago

I got corned. Damn.

popschedule• 17 years ago

Put it on my site.

sangaya• 17 years ago

I actually thought it was quite the fun idea. My only suggestions are to increase the number of pictures (and thus the cuteness) as well as allow for the pictures to be dragged around. I don't want to stop clicking "cornify" if the button gets covered up :)

Andi• 17 years ago

What about: "Review my StartDOWN" ?

juliend2• 17 years ago

It would be nice to calculate the offset of the "Cornify" button (when it uses the button instead of the bookmarklet) so that when you generate some insane amounts of unicorns they don't cover the "Cornify" button.

motherwell• 17 years ago

If I could make a suggestion: Multiple cornify buttons. It is awesome fun to keep hitting the button, so more means you can have a sillier screen :)

ahoyhere• 17 years ago

Y'all can laugh -- good lord, I did, thanks Cornify! -- but you'd be shocked & awed to learn the money people make with stuff that's not far removed from this.

Viva la difference!

arjunb• 17 years ago

Great business model!

sh1mmer• 17 years ago

I have an extensive collection of unicorn artwork and imagery. How do I get them to you?

RiderOfGiraffes3• 17 years ago

You've had lots of positive feedback, and I'm sure it's a good idea, but it's caused me nothing but trouble.

Firstly - and you'll see this in my earlier comments, it simply didn't work for me on IE7/XP Home edition. Now it works (Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 on SuSE 10.1) but when I closed the tab the "music" kept running.

How many browser/OS combinations have you tested this on? I'm left with a machine that I may have to reboot to get control back of the sound system, and I'm not a happy customer. If you do this to people "in the wild" you may get some comment significantly more negative than this one.

Review my website: Cornify

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