It's not something I've thought about. No-one's ever asked before. I'd certainly take submissions of service / workshop manuals but this area of the site is still very much in progress.
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www.howacarworks.com
Here's a comparison of the pics:
Old - http://www.howacarworks.com/images/846/leaf-spring-suspensio... New - http://www.howacarworks.com/illustration/1333/leaf-spring-su...
This was a pleasant surprise to find my own site on HN this morning! I wondered why it was getting a few more FB likes than usual today.
I'm happy to answer any questions.
I finished this redesign last week so any feedback is welcome.
The main task was to recreate labels and annotations on the illustrations in SVG format, and to reformat the articles in a way that flows nicely and is responsive, but without needing complex markup in the articles. I'll write about the process if there's interest.
I've previously written a little about this project:
http://www.howacarworks.com/about/making
http://www.howacarworks.com/a-year-on
Current traffic is 200k uniques a month and it's taken about two years of steady growth to reach that point.
Budapest, Hungary - Full time
How a Car Works [0] is growing rapidly and has huge potential - traffic has grown steadily for two years and what began as a side-project is now a sustainable business with more to come.
You'll create and implement a new design that makes the most of the content and illustrations (which are in the process of being recreated in SVG). How a Car Works is one of a number of projects we have that need the hand of a skilled designer.
Send an email with details of some things you have created to alex@cogniso.com.
We'll be hiring a ruby developer in the next month too - drop me an email if that's your thing.
Today 7 out of every 8 minutes on mobile devices is spent within apps.
I've had nothing but an error ("Error, code UL1JOBHASH: parsererror") for the last two hours.
I believe you can import your Google Analytics data into http://caniuse.com for this depth of information.
On the comments:upvotes ratio - I think there's two types of submission.
Blog or newsy stuff invites discussion and comments. But other things, like Show HNs, for instance, might be upvoted for being useful but without anyone commenting much. Both are fine.
I've had front page stories on HN maybe five or six times over the last couple of years. I don't feel anything has changed over that time. If you look at my submission history, you'll see about 90% of what I submit gets no votes. I once tried submitting a story a couple of times when I felt that it was getting less traction than expected - it made no difference.
I'm actually surprised at how well HN surfaces decent content (I'm quite happy to accept that my stuff which got no upvotes just wasn't of interest.) Whenever I put something up it gets about twenty eyeballs off the 'New' page so real people are looking at it.
I can say for sure that I don't have any friends with HN accounts (much to my disappointment!) and I've never tried to game it.
Their killer use case is moving heavy stuff to inaccessible areas. Wind turbines being the flavour of the moment. They combine the long distance capability of a plane, the hovering of a helicopter and the lift capacity of a crane...
However, once the 160 tonne payload has been dropped, the ship either needs to take on 160 tonnes of ballast or jettison helium (not an option since it's so expensive). The Cargolifter idea was to just pump up water if I remember correctly, but for land-based tasks that meant being met by ten tanker lorries at the drop site, thus negating all the benefits and meaning you might as well stick the cargo straight on those trucks.
I'd love to see it work out, but so far these projects have been nothing but a wipeout for investors. Coincidentally back in 2006 I worked a couple of desks over from people managing the liquidation of Skycat, which was basically the same thing, also built at Cardington. It may even have been the same team.
Flagged. Pure clickbait bullshit.
> This situation is almost unique.
Except for the iPad. Which was exactly the same situation.
Always nice to get some eyeballs! I didn't expect any interest in this really - as it's ultimately completely pointless!
I built it because I'm on a mission to polish up my Javascript[0] and get to grips with React and Node. And I have to say, it's been a pleasure. I'm astounded that the server for this (70 concurrent users) was just install node and hit screen -r / node server.