Re:Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
by raketenolli on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:54AM
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Yeah, the actual work seems to have been done by the people running the underlying http://numbersapi.com/4/6/date
Correct, just fixed to show the source. Wasn't intentional, and making note not to miss that again.
Re:Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
by proto_lambda on Thursday April 06, 2023 @08:54AM
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Note: ad is a normal noun, not an initialism. It took me a couple moments to realize what you meant.
Hi! Thanks for the feedback, let me clarify some stuff for you ;)
I'm using Numbers Api (http://numbersapi.com/), and it returns a random fact for the day I'm requesting, so there's no history indeed.
Yes, we are a dev company and make these cool projects for fun (and if you like our work and want to work with us, we would be happy to help).
You can check https://samedayskunkworks.com to view other cool projects, all for FREE.
Just want to clarify a bit here, this was a short project that I put together in a few hours because I really like fun facts like this. I'm part of a team that builds fast projects regularly and we have a default global footer that is applied to every site (see here for example: https://www.ghostlystock.com/ ) so unfortunately something we built to be tasteful was misinterpreted because it's obviously so over the top here.
It's a learning lesson for me and I'm going to do things differently moving forward. Sorry about that.
Re:Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
by gardenhedge on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:54PM
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I'm not sure if there's a lesson at all. I think your setup is fine.
1. Cool, I didn't know that fact
2. This is a nice, simple site
3. Maybe I should make it my New Tab page...
4. Where are the other facts -- can I browse them somehow? I want to see how good they are and if they align with my interests
5. Oh, there's no history, I guess this is the first fact, weird
6. scroll down Oh, this is a thinly veiled AD for a web dev studio...
7. Hm, there's more words, design effort, and attention put into the AD than the main content of the page
8. It's weird I had to scroll to see that it was an AD
9. Oh, they're being tricky and making sure the ad part is always below the fold using `height: 100vh` in their CSS
10. That's tricky -- they're hoping to get a ton of upvotes on HN before too many people realize it's an AD
11. If only they'd waited a few days to submit this to HN and had a few items in history, I probably would've made it my New Tab page and upvoted it...