Show HN: I built this website to help people with hashtags. Hope you'll enjoy it

by gantengx • 13 years ago

23 32 13 years ago

I thought this would look for words in your text that make for a good hashtag, e.g. converting "you only live once" to "#yolo", and make hashtags from nouns but not verbs and commonly used words. Unfortunately it seems to just put a "#" in front of every word, which (for me) isn't even worth it to go to that website, type my text, copy it over to twitter/instagram, paste it, then send it.

dwaltrip• 13 years ago

I think the main point of the site is the list of hashtag suggestions below your freshly hashtag-prefxed content. Mildly interesting idea, however the suggestions I got with a few tests weren't that awe-inspiring.

jschulenklopper2• 13 years ago

In what way does this help people with hashtags? What problem is adressed? Just by looking at the use of hashtags by my non-technical acquaintances on Twitter or Facebook, nobody seems to have a problem with them. #confused

Idea for your next website: de-hashtagify a text. Implementation: something like s/#//g on the input text.

nicholassmith3• 13 years ago

#satire #tongue-in-cheek.

I imagine it's in response to the fact people are hashtagging everything.

esusatyo4• 13 years ago

the developer here: yes, that is what it's about :)

jschulenklopper2• 13 years ago

Yeah, thought about that too. Not very effective satire then, because this HN-announcement and the tweets by the developers don't give any hint that this is to be considered a joke. (Even though they would want it to appear as such by now.)

Well, another example covered by Poe's law.

gantengx7• 13 years ago

that's the joke - http://i.imgur.com/3Gpey.jpg lol

tjosten• 13 years ago

Putting a # in front of every word is not exactly what hashtags are meant to be for.

gantengx7• 13 years ago

That's the joke :p

imdsm• 13 years ago

It's just not a very good one really, with all due respect.

JonnieCache• 13 years ago

Satire requires a bit more groundwork than this really.

daGrevis• 13 years ago

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when there are 3+ hashtags?

gantengx7• 13 years ago

You're not the only one ;)

sahrizv• 13 years ago

#satire

gantengx7• 13 years ago

#classy

modarts• 13 years ago

#hashtagyoloswag

kamakazizuru• 13 years ago

i dont get it. is this meant to be humorous? also - why did it take 3 people to build this?

logn• 13 years ago

Yes, I don't get it either. I guess that with the web now, this is what it looks like as people learn programming? I know for me my thrill in programming growing up was to write some dumb game that worked on console and then convince my parents and friends to use it. I guess this is the equivalent? The fun thing these days, you can get thousands of users and maybe do something with it other than immediately discard it. So, I see these as Hello Worlds to the next level.

petercooper• 13 years ago

#This #might #be #a #joke #but #there's #actually #a #lot #of #fun #work #to #be #had #in #building #systems #that #can #auto-tag #text #(or #"auto #classification" #in #the #pre-hashtag #era #;-)).

gantengx7• 13 years ago

#thank #you!

krapp• 13 years ago

#bump

dlsym• 13 years ago

The $('.pure-g h3.l-hashtags')-Headline is driving me insane.

I guess this is not satire, since this tool suggests some tags. (I guess the hashtagging of every word is just a little side-joke.)

danmaz742• 13 years ago

Shameless plug: if you really need something that can help you with hashtags, you can try my http://hashtagify.me/

esusatyo4• 13 years ago

developer here: Can't believe I met you here :) your domain was the first one that we wanted to buy but isn't available.

danmaz742• 13 years ago

It's a little world ;)

PS: Please, don't sue me, I'm still bootstrapping :D

supercoder• 13 years ago

It seems like a joke , but then kinda doesn't... 2 stars.

esusatyo4• 13 years ago

It's a joke. Trust me.

gantengx7• 13 years ago

http://instantrimshot.com/

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