Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so I built her one

Re:Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so ... by ftay on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:49PM (#6862789)

Currently, when I fill out the form, I have no idea what's going out to the recipients - perhaps a mad libs-esque design would explain why each field, e.g. party title, is necessary :)

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Re:Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so ... by dinosaurs on Friday December 06, 2013 @01:53PM (#6862830)

May I ask what you mean with mad libs-esque? I did think about what you're saying while developing it but we kinda rushed things and didn't get to focus on the design much. Maybe for next year? :)

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Re:Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so ... by atwebb on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:43PM (#6863207)

Hi ______(target user) ,

My name is ______(yourself) and this ____(verb) _______(noun)!

Hi Dinosaurs,

My names is atwebb and this is madlibs!

And you'd put the parens on the line, but I'm not sure of the markup for underlining here and feeling lazy.

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Re:Show HN: My girlfriend needed a Secret Santa web app, so ... by dinosaurs on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:45PM (#6863220)

I see. Great suggestion, might even use that for something else I'm working on :) Thanks for explaining!

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