Show HN: Eng.gd - an experiment in Backbone to easily tell engagement stories

eng.gd

11 points·brandoncarl··5 comments

Hi all - this is my first big project using a combination of MongoDB, S3, Node, Backbone and CoffeeScript. Big not in the sense of scale, but in the extra work that is involved in making an interface usable.

My goal was to create a site for couples to "bookmark" their engagement stories that was extremely easy to use. As such, the app focuses heavily on contenteditables and step-by-step instructions. Most notably is a "storybook" effect: user's photos are stored in color and black and white and "spring to life" on scrolling.

You can see our friends' story here as an example: http://www.eng.gd/8i4Q1d

Enjoy!

Not sure what the consensus of this will be, but if you are going to use a cool, short URL, don't put www in front of it.

I totally agree with you. Limitation of using Heroku right now. Basically, if you want email addresses without "mail" prefix, naked CNAME refs don't work well.

If you know a better fix, please lemme know!

Hi brandoncarl,

Congrats on launching! It wasn't very clear to me that I should be hitting the space bar to move through a story. I was trying to read text while scrolling and kept asking "Why is this grayed out?!"

Otherwise, awesome!

Hi Walke and thanks for the encouraging words!

You should be able to scroll (either with trackpad or scrollbar) and the story will move from gray to color on its on. If you're scrolling really fast you sometimes run into some strange issues.

If that isn't working for you, please let me know, but a "leisurely" scroll through should result in a colored version of the panel you're reading and B&W other panels.

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