Ask HN: Do you use easter eggs in your websites/software/etc?
* if you go on my personal website and search my projects for certain keywords ("about", "hello", my name and some others), you will see a little description of my site
* at my previous job I created some JavaScript automation tools which had a few easter eggs, for example this one product search tool would open a random Youtube video from a list of songs that I liked if you searched for my name
* another "app" I made used code names based on names of artists, musicians, political activists etc; if you clicked a specific "empty" area in the toolbar, a website would open that explained where the code name comes from, for example My Awesome Toolbar v2.0 - Emma would open a Google search for Emma Goldman or MAT v4.2 - Kim would open a Youtube page with a Pixies song (Kim as in Kim Deal)
I don't think any of my colleagues ever discovered the easter eggs, but it was still fun adding them.
Relatively speaking, easter eggs go better and are more par for the course with less serious products like games, google Carmack easter eggs for some good reading :-)
"I'm a big fan of the Konami code jQuery plugin. On my site, when you put it in you get a better deal on your VPS."
Not sure if I should include the guy's website, but I'm keeping this in mind for the next time I'll be ordering something online.