Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by scyclow on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:15PM
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I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by mrhackernews on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:43PM
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with all due respect (and it's due - ecommerce is hard work), lose the animations...
As soon as I landed on your page, I wasn't thinking "I wanna buy t-shirts and masks!" I was thinking, "Boy, I've got motion sickness and I hope I don't puke."
Let me just say... I'm not a "motion sickness" type. But looking at your page still gave it to me.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by mguerville on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:06PM
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Wow, I clicked because of your comment and I concur, you're not being dramatic, it's pretty overwhelming animation
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by leephillips on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:23PM
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I think it’s kind of awesome, in its own weird way.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by austinjp on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:12PM
(#25587963)
Oh wow. Okay. Yes, ditch the animations. I genuinely cannot stand to use the site :(
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by rusticpenn on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:29PM
(#25586980)
You weren't kidding. I underestimated the effect the site would have on me.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by s279 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:07PM
(#25588373)
You weren’t kidding that they weren’t kidding, I almost vomited.
Some less harsh criticism:
- zigzag circle looks like a visual field migraine before the spinning, cut both replace the logo with something slightly more unique.
- moving text is distracting.
- objects moving left to right and right to left (if you’re dead set on having moving things pick one direction).
- what’s the difference between this and redbubble/zazzle etc?
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by whoknew1122 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:39PM
(#25587098)
Wow, I just had flashbacks to homestead.com sites.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by hermitcrab on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:58PM
(#25586646)
Sorry, but those animations are BAAAAD. Arguably worse than https://www.lingscars.com/ .
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by fzil on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:03PM
(#25586694)
that's an amazing website! Thanks for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by oneil on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:23AM
(#25591392)
Have a look at the source code; the warning message is amazing
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by hermitcrab on Thursday December 31, 2020 @05:31AM
(#25591433)
Wow. I never thought to look at the source.
https://www.lingscars.com/ is so bad that it has gone all the way around the dial back to good (for some value of good).
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by pengaru on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:50PM
(#25587214)
Your site looks like a satirical fake, nobody in their right mind is going to actually buy something through that.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by exeldapp on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:49PM
(#25586564)
It honestly looks like a low effort scam website.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by the_cat_kittles on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:03PM
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the animations and aesthetic are lots of fun, assuming you intend them to be a kind of retro hip nod to an older web era. all these people hating on it have no sense of joy. but i think it might not be right for a site that sells medical gear for a pandemic. also, its hard for me tell based on the masks whether you are extremely online and irony poisoned (very likely) or a right wing grifter (very unlikely but possible)
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by scyclow on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:55PM
(#25605626)
Ha, glad you had fun! I'm definitely irony poisoned. I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if not for the inappropriateness of the content matter though.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by hitpointdrew on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:35PM
(#25586428)
Having a site that is less busy might be helpful....all the motion on your site makes me want to click away immediately.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by cogman10 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:53PM
(#25586597)
This feels like a high class GeoCities throwback... Made me both nostalgic and motion sick :D
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by fapjacks on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:23AM
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I'm honestly wondering if this is top-tier HN trolling. If so, well done.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by manuelisimo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:32PM
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Maybe try fewer animations
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by kawera on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:25PM
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Or zero animations, even better.
Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha...
by geuis on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:44PM
(#25586531)
If you want, I can help you get the <blink> tag working again.