Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, why it failed
by prez on Monday March 28, 2011 @09:01PM
(#2380870)
Not exactly the type of project I expected to see on HN.
But actually ... I like it, I might even buy one as a gift for a stoner friend.
The design (of weedtee.com) is a bit heavy.
I'm using a crappy comp connected to RDP and it took it about 5-10 seconds just to render the page.
Maybe (a slight) redesign will help you turn visitors into customers?
Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, why it failed
by prez on Monday March 28, 2011 @11:09PM
(#2381192)
A little of both.
It takes a while for the background image to load, maybe you can compress it without noticeable quality loss?
Then again, it should be fine with a normal connection on a normal computer.
Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, why it failed
by TamDenholm on Monday March 28, 2011 @07:17PM
(#2380564)
The quickest way to handle lots of load on an article is to make a static html page of your article and serve that instead of your wordpress/whatever resource intensive website.
TL;DR until I get it back up... I made http://www.weedtee.com one afternoon for a friend when he got obsessed with this story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173155
We put it up yesterday, it did not go viral.
But actually ... I like it, I might even buy one as a gift for a stoner friend.
The design (of weedtee.com) is a bit heavy. I'm using a crappy comp connected to RDP and it took it about 5-10 seconds just to render the page. Maybe (a slight) redesign will help you turn visitors into customers?