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Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by verganileonardo on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:34PM (#4034237)
I use WorkFlowy.com to track what I did!

Every morning WorkFlowy sends me an email with all the tasks I accomplished the day before. This way, I can ensure that I'm being productive! :)

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by pfraze on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:47PM (#4034304)
I cant recommend workflowy enough. It's my 2nd most-used app (gmail is 1st).
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by BrainScraps on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:24PM (#4035172)
Someone else more eloquent than I advocated that we stop using curved drop shadows... I concur: http://delvarworld.github.com/blog/2012/05/14/stop-using-cur...
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by antihero on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:56PM (#4035273)
The way I see it it's to subtly suggest to our heads that it's not the background that is curved back, but the box that has slightly curled up corners, offering an organic, 3D feel.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by walrus on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:44PM (#4035233)
Maybe the background surface is curved ;)
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by rozap on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:21PM (#4035324)
Which makes me nauseous.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by tjic on Monday May 28, 2012 @10:43PM (#4035708)
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?

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by citricsquid on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:06PM (#4034364)
Site doesn't load, but based on the name I'm going to guess it's similar to https://idonethis.com/?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by michael_fine on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:48PM (#4034520)
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.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by glimcat on Monday May 28, 2012 @10:26PM (#4035664)
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.

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by michael_fine on Monday May 28, 2012 @10:52PM (#4035720)
Because the information ends up being distributed through email anyway, just via a third party.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by dfamorato on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:31PM (#4034446)
Same here, does not load at all... Caching/cloudflare would be nice...
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:43PM (#4034500)
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!
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by popschedule on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:32PM (#4035200)
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
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:16PM (#4035315)
Yes, you're absolutely right on that one. It's on the ominous list of things to implement.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by pygorex on Monday May 28, 2012 @05:04PM (#4034918)
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?

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:14PM (#4035313)
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.

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by blindgaenger on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:07PM (#4035120)
Alright, the site is out of maintenance mode again. Sorry about that, but we didn't expect such high traffic. Next step … upscaling!
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by LarryMade on Monday May 28, 2012 @08:35PM (#4035491)
Bookmarked - I don't do facebook or twitter though, so no content from me... Wheres tumblr integration?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @07:50AM (#4036999)
Tumblr integration is high on the list. Since we're working with very limited resources right now, it might take a little while till it's released, though.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by droithomme on Monday May 28, 2012 @10:54PM (#4035726)
Will there be actual accounts, or is twitter and facebook meant to be it for sign in?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @07:48AM (#4036994)
We'll have actual accounts in the near future, as well as Tumblr integration. Twitter and Facebook were natural choices for bootstrapping the site.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by pranaya_ghimire on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:45PM (#4034296)
Beautiful site. Maybe someone can do similar diy approach for startups.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by jamesbritt on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:28PM (#4035189)
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.

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:23PM (#4035330)
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...

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by biot on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:21PM (#4034180)
So it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by endlessvoid94 on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:39PM (#4034262)
I already like this 100 times more than pinterest. I think it's a perfect slice.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by antihero on Monday May 28, 2012 @06:58PM (#4035276)
It's like pinterest but with things we've done not things we've randomly found.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by stdbrouw on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:45PM (#4034294)
It's not about the technology, it's about the purpose.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by craze3 on Monday May 28, 2012 @05:51PM (#4035066)
Anyone else think that the Pinterest layout is played out already?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by oonny on Monday May 28, 2012 @04:40PM (#4034858)
didn't load for me, are there any screenshot?
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by yelhsa on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:30PM (#4034443)
echoing someone else, the site doesn't load.
Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by gcb on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:50PM (#4034315)
"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.

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by PythonDeveloper on Monday May 28, 2012 @12:51PM (#4034081)
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...

Re:Today I made - You’re a maker? This is your diary by wowo101 on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @07:51AM (#4037003)
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.