Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary(todayimade.co)
todayimade.co
Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary
http://todayimade.co/
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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?
Why do I care about this website?
Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/?
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.
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.
The interface is often important.
Because the information ends up being distributed through email anyway, just via a third party.
Same here, does not load at all... Caching/cloudflare would be nice...
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!
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
Yes, you're absolutely right on that one. It's on the ominous list of things to implement.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Alright, the site is out of maintenance mode again. Sorry about that, but we didn't expect such high traffic. Next step … upscaling!
Will there be actual accounts, or is twitter and facebook meant to be it for sign in?
We'll have actual accounts in the near future, as well as Tumblr integration. Twitter and Facebook were natural choices for bootstrapping the site.
Beautiful site. Maybe someone can do similar diy approach for startups.
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.
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.
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...
As we are bootstrapping right now, things are moving slowly, but we hope in the right direction...
So it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?
I already like this 100 times more than pinterest. I think it's a perfect slice.
It's like pinterest but with things we've done not things we've randomly found.
It's not about the technology, it's about the purpose.
Anyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?
didn't load for me, are there any screenshot?
echoing someone else, the site doesn't load.
"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.
Let's hope all pictures have the interesting portion to the far left.
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...
Not all of us are make-aware...
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.
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