Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors

[hb]

I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it.

http://getwebcolors.com/

Thanks.

[mkilling]

Could we please stop calling those apps startups?

[togasystems]

I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images.

Good job!

[tworats]

Worked for me, seems useful, bookmarked.

Not sure it's a startup though, more like a useful utility.

[hb]

Sure you're right, it is not a startup. I just copy pasted the title from another post, so it has startup word in it.

[hb]

Clickable: http://getwebcolors.com/

[kongqiu]

Edit: now it's working for me. Nice idea.

I tried it for my own site, parkgrades.com, and it just sort of hung up. Same for apple.com.

As a non-designer, I like the concept...

[dshipper]

Very cool. Nice work...any way to make it run faster? As an aside, I think I might use this to look at the palettes on sites other than my own to see what colors they're using since I presumably have some idea of the ones that I'm using.

[hb]

Well thanks for your comments. I'm aware that it is somewhat slow for now, as it has no cache, or any other optimization. I just released it if any interest will arise. Hopefully I got enough motivation to enhance the performance.

[aquadoctorbob]

Is it down? I tried Google, Reddit, and Twitter and got an empty palette back.

[hb]

It has some stability problems, though it is working now.

[lukeinth]

I guess its down again, I can't reach it.

[biggitybones]

It'd be great if there was a permalink where I could go back to for the color palette (I'm in Linux, so no Photoshop for me). It would also probably reduce load as I wouldn't need to get the palette again.