The way I see it it's to subtly suggest to our heads that it's not the background that is curved back, but the box that has slightly curled up corners, offering an organic, 3D feel.
Today I baked four loaves of sourdough bread, forged a drawknife from an old leaf spring off my trucks, and replaced the capacitors in a guitar effects pedal.
Thanks all for your feedback! In fact, we're aiming at being "Pinterest meets Instructables" – knowledge porn for makers. We're in our very early stages, so the HN induced traffic surge hit us a little unaware. Also, we are working steadily on our posting and sharing features to get more instructs on the site – any feedback on that is highly appreciated!
You should store the image size ratio so you can pre-render all of your absolute positions before the images load entirely. There is a jump that happens when you reposition all of the boxes after the images load. noticed on a slow connection
Ouch. Says the site is down for maintenance. Can't even take a look.
Even so I don't really see the need for this site. When I launch a project I post it to my web site portfolio or blog then aggregate out to Twitter/Facebook/etc. What advantage are you offering over established publishing tools?
The idea behind todayimade is to collect and aggregate ideas for DIY projects in a very broad sense – stuff you make, sew, cook, craft, build etc., and to let people build on each other's ideas. Right now the feature set is really small, but we hope to implement stuff like "tell me more about how you made this or that" and "this inspired me to do that" in the near future.
Tumblr integration is high on the list. Since we're working with very limited resources right now, it might take a little while till it's released, though.
But since I'm already using Pinspire and can post my maker pix there, I'm hard pressed to see why I would join another site.
Am I missing something?
EDIT: I also use Instructables, where I can also post details on how I made something as well as pix. But it's not as simple as just throwing a picture up on Pinspire.
As of now, you're not missing anything. We started out as a place to collect stuff we made Pinterest-like, then discovered people wanted more Instructables-like information, and are now working on the – as we think – missing links: Connecting ideas via "remake/remix/inspired by" links and changing from a push-model of knowledge sharing to a pull-model.
As we are bootstrapping right now, things are moving slowly, but we hope in the right direction...
Where's the instructs? How do I makering these things? ;-) Would be nice to be able to get "plans" on how some of these things were made, even if they are simple coat hooks.
Yes, definitely – we're working on how to make it easier and more attractive to add instructions, so hopefully you'll find more of them in the near future.
Every morning WorkFlowy sends me an email with all the tasks I accomplished the day before. This way, I can ensure that I'm being productive! :)