Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours(localfoodtrivia.appgrounds.com)
localfoodtrivia.appgrounds.com
Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours
http://localfoodtrivia.appgrounds.com/
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#mainblock { text-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #000; }
The page is basically unreadable because of the white text on the light image, but I actually stopped cold when I saw an "i.e." where an "e.g." should have been. If you can't get that right then I have to assume you don't care about details (code, design, output...) or you just don't know any better.
> Show HN: I built this website in 10 hours
... and it shows. What an overwhelmingly sloppy, poorly executed site. I took the first few questions of a quiz about Chicago; rather than having me "explore" the city's culinary offerings, it just blasted me with a bunch of questions I couldn't possibly answer about a restaurant I've never heard of before. A number of the questions were unanswerable (all of the questions had duplicate answers), and all of its knowledge about local restaurants is obviously pulled sloppily from Yelp's API (it offered such scintillating questions as "which Yelp review corresponds to this restaurant you've never heard of?" and "which picture, pulled from Yelp, is of a dish served at this restaurant you've never heard of?").
The idea is neat but this website is awful.
... and it shows. What an overwhelmingly sloppy, poorly executed site. I took the first few questions of a quiz about Chicago; rather than having me "explore" the city's culinary offerings, it just blasted me with a bunch of questions I couldn't possibly answer about a restaurant I've never heard of before. A number of the questions were unanswerable (all of the questions had duplicate answers), and all of its knowledge about local restaurants is obviously pulled sloppily from Yelp's API (it offered such scintillating questions as "which Yelp review corresponds to this restaurant you've never heard of?" and "which picture, pulled from Yelp, is of a dish served at this restaurant you've never heard of?").
The idea is neat but this website is awful.
The above comment is really harsh, discouraging, and rude. But I agree with most of it.
I don't think you should brag about how little time you spent on anything. Nor should it be used as an excuse for a half-baked product.
There is a nugget of a good idea in there somewhere. I think it might be worth another 10 hours to really find the goodness here and then spend the time to build something people will actually love.
I don't think you should brag about how little time you spent on anything. Nor should it be used as an excuse for a half-baked product.
There is a nugget of a good idea in there somewhere. I think it might be worth another 10 hours to really find the goodness here and then spend the time to build something people will actually love.
sweet site dude but pleaz o pleaz change the background, i can't see the white text on the light gray back ground.
the design is meh,but I can definitely forgive that. how did you get the data in that amoount of time?
Edit: I like the idea. A couple suggestions for improvements:
— Add a document title. Display the city and the restaurant in the title.
— Show some sort of a notification when a city isn't found (otherwise people might think your application is broken when Yelp doesn't support their city).