Comment by logn | Hacker News Reader

Comment by logn | Hacker News Reader

Your tl;dr on About Me is 20%+ of the text that follows.

Your images are dithered like it's 1995.

This all feels a bit cheesey. I'd just make a general homepage for yourself with a blog page. Invest in your own domain name. Also, mimic the style of modern web pages (not SpaceX). Take your News to Me stories and make a fuller blog post for each one. Omit the dates so it doesn't look like you put this together in a day. Maybe add some physics/space/engineering posts too.

Further, blatantly copying the SpaceX homepage is a foolish move. One, instead of calling you for an interview, their legal department might send you a stern letter. And two, it looks a bit desperate. You should be an all around brilliant person in high demand for jobs, not someone spending a week thinking how to weasel your way into an interview for one company.

Perfect. Thanks for taking the time to go through the site.

I agree my About Me section kinda sucks. I was thinking I would use this space to incorporate sfretchling's suggestions.

It's too bad it comes off as cheesy, I was more hoping it would come off as showing that I dedicated the time and effort to put this together specifically for SpaceX.

The News to Me section is integrated into Pockets API, so updates whenever I add content to it, but I like the idea of writing my own blog post on the content. Sorry, which dates? I do have physics/space/engineering, just hasn't been an article worth saving recently, but I could control that under what I favorite so I'll be sure to tweak that.

Thanks for your opinion on how copying the website would come off. My intentions were simply to bring my resume to SpaceX in a familiar and customized-to-them manner, but understand that it might not come off that way.

It's also too bad that it seems like I'm trying to weasel anything. I'm certainly not desperate for a job, but am crazy interested in the things SpaceX is doing and it sounds like such a fun group to work with.

I do really appreciate your thoughtful comments. Regardless of how it works out, I've learned a lot and it's been a fun way to build my first web app.

While I don't think they'd be so heavy handed, I do agree that lifting content directly from their website and using it as part of your application probably wont give the best first impression. Also it looks like you're using a standard web palette in your GIFs which is causing the ugly dithering effect.

Okay awesome, thanks for the tips blockjack.

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