Instant Motivation

http://instamotivation.com

by derekflanzraich • 14 years ago

42 28 14 years ago

instamotivation.com

tferris• 14 years ago

What font did you use?

Sodaware• 14 years ago

It's the "Avenir" family of fonts.

Killah911• 14 years ago

It repeats the same motivational messages, maybe it would be better if it just ran out...

scottmagdalein2• 14 years ago

Nah, just need more messages.

derekflanzraich• 14 years ago

We're working on it! Lots more to be added thanks to some awesome submissions.

fourstar• 14 years ago

The whole thing is a marketing gimmick anyway, since the OP runs the blog that you go to when you click on "I'm motivated". It's probably like that by design.

tedmiston• 14 years ago

Funny you mention that. When I'm motivated, I just close it.

scottmagdalein2• 14 years ago

Very nice. Bookmarked! (I don't have many bookmarks, so this is a prestigious position in my browser.)

james-fend• 14 years ago

Thank you. This has become my one and only default homepage that I open up starting each day.

pavs• 14 years ago

My personal fav: http://minimotivation.com/

jrogers65• 14 years ago

This is brilliant. The irony is subtle but it's completely brilliant. "Do more by reading quotes which might encourage you to do more instead of actually doing more."

mistercow• 14 years ago

The HN title is incorrect; instantmotivation.com is a squatter. It should be instamotivation.com

shocks• 14 years ago

Pretty cool.

Could be improved with a fading background and keeping the bottom links in the same place when progressing. :)

uberc• 14 years ago

Fun. Would be nice to have a way to attribute the quotes, so you show quotes from notable people. Sometimes a quote is inspiring for who says it as much as for what it says.

muratmutlu2• 14 years ago

Does any know if there are any scripts/css around that could help me create something like this? I'm more of a tinkerer than a coder

krapp2• 14 years ago

I was just thinking a hackernews userscript that tossed these up somewhere in the layout might be good, given the audience. The core of it's just picking a random quote from an array so it should be simple. You could select lines or quotes from users and add them to the queue with LocalStorage or something.

I am now apparently working on this...

muratmutlu2• 14 years ago

haha look forward to seeing it! Letme know when you get it up and running @mutlu82

EragonJ• 14 years ago

Pretty cool idea to change background color with meaningful quotes! easy but inspiring for lives!

maybe you can try to enhance it by adding more quotes and making the relationship between quotes and colors.

joshbert• 14 years ago

I'm wondering if maybe by getting these kinds of instant motivation bursts you're attacking a symptom instead of the problem.

yuxt• 14 years ago

It would be good to have an API so it can be combined with Pomodoro widgets.

sgt101• 14 years ago

I like the colours - how do you come up with colours that look stylish like these, but aren't garish or crude?

lcculhane• 14 years ago

These colors are from Greatist's Brand Guidelines!

shakeel_mohamed• 14 years ago

Mind blowing! Last night I thought of building the same thing with user submitted content. But, I was going to use the domain motivation.io (as in input/output).

Great minds think alike, I suppose :)

septerr• 14 years ago

With so much inspiration floating around (and fixed to every wall in the office), I find http://www.despair.com/demotivators.html refreshing.

Coko2• 14 years ago

My friend and I made something similar, for photographers: http://www.youknowyoureaphotographerwhen.com

geekgirlweb• 14 years ago

Nice!

Are the background images huge? They took a long time to load :(

Coko2• 14 years ago

The background images are user submitted, but we limit to 400kB to keep a good quality, these are photographers after all ;)

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