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	Five Second Homepage (fivesecondhomepage.com)
	10 points by techpost 4893 days ago

14 comments

nthitz 4893 days ago

Maybe instead of having to register have a feature like:

http://www.fivesecondhomepage.com/www.reddit.com

Which shows the quote, then gets me to reddit or whatever

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artursapek 4893 days ago

I was going to suggest this as well. Why would you bother with a database for something like this? Maybe it's a data mining effort.

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web007 4893 days ago

This seems like a much better idea than /somereddituser.

Also, if @OP keeps the same scheme with /username, you need to have an "Edit" button. I typoed the first time, and now I'm stuck with a bad redirect.

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techpost 4893 days ago

Thank you for your suggestion nthitz the link is working :)

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nthitz 4892 days ago

Awesome! Fun site, thank you!

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raldi 4893 days ago

    Enter your current homepage URL ex: google.com (Do not include'http://')

Lazy programmer. Let your users paste in whatever they want, and have your code handle it either way.

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techpost 4893 days ago

lazy got more lazy :)no registration is required http://Fivesecondhomepage.com/www.example.com

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wololo_ 4893 days ago

Why use a sign up when you could use HTML5 localStorage and users put the url and you redirect them..

Looks good anyways

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dioltas 4893 days ago

One problem is https urls don't seem to work properly, the colon seems to be stripped from the input.

https://duckduckgo.com changes to https//duckduckgo.com, which doesn't work, so you have to resort to the unsecure version.

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drcube 4893 days ago

Reminds me of the BSD fortune program which greets me every time I log into Slackware. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29

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bmmayer1 4893 days ago

Does anyone use homepages anymore?

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pavel_lishin 4893 days ago

I use More Interestingness[0] for new tabs in Chrome, and I have my personal email, work email, twitter and Google Reader start in pinned tabs on launch.

I have no need for five seconds of inspirational quotes. That's what /usr/local/bin/fortune is for.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/more-interestingne...

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nvr219 4893 days ago

I have tumblr dashboard as my home page because otherwise I forget to check tumblr.

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vacri 4893 days ago

Google search is my homepage because it is (er... 'was') lightweight and quick to load. When opening the browser, if there was a problem with my net connection, I could be fairly certain it was between me and the ISP, not that the google servers were down.

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kaolinite 4893 days ago

Yes.

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toxik 4893 days ago

Ugh why redirect after exactly five seconds? Stressed out or what?

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mstefanko 4893 days ago

Yeah, I agree with the consensus thus far. To me the sign-up ruins this. Anything that gets this to the point where that's not required, adds a lot of value to your service.

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techpost 4893 days ago

you do not need to sign-up anymore http://Fivesecondhomepage.com/www.example.com

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afeezaziz 4893 days ago

OP:Why do you need a sign-up?

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cschep 4893 days ago

Been using http://minimotivation.com/ for a while. This looks really similar.

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tantalor 4893 days ago

Would be quite effective as a Chrome Extension: no server to host and no sign-up required. Just put the quotes up on a CDN.

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icebraining 4893 days ago

What about the ~64% of us who use something other than Chrome?

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tantalor 4893 days ago

It gets better.

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hamburglar 4893 days ago

Hell, it would be effective as a data: url.

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hamburglar 4893 days ago

Can I paste a huge data url here? Let's see.

data:text/html;base64,PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWwgUFVCTElDICItLy9XM0MvL0RURCBYSFRNTCAxLjAgU3RyaWN0Ly9FTiIgImh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnL1RSL3hodG1sMS9EVEQveGh0bWwxLXN0cmljdC5kdGQiPgo8aHRtbCB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMTk5OS94aHRtbCI+ICAKPGhlYWQ+ICAKPG1ldGEgSFRUUC1FUVVJVj0iUkVGUkVTSCIgY29udGVudD0iNTsgdXJsPWh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8iPgo8dGl0bGU+Rml2ZSBTZWNvbmQgSG9tZVBhZ2U8L3RpdGxlPgo8c3R5bGUgdHlwZT0idGV4dC9jc3MiPgoqIHsKICAgIG1hcmdpbjogMDsKICAgIHBhZGRpbmc6IDA7Cn0KaDEgewogICAgdGV4dC1hbGlnbjogY2VudGVyOwogICAgZm9udC1zaXplOiAyZW07CiAgICBtYXJnaW46IDE1MHB4IGF1dG87CiAgICBwYWRkaW5nOiAwcHggMHB4IDVweCAwcHg7ICAKICAgIHdpZHRoOiA1MCU7Cn0KYm9keSB7CiAgICBmb250LWZhbWlseTogVHJlYnVjaGV0IE1TOwp9CmEgewogICAgY29sb3I6ICMwMDA7Cn0KYTpob3ZlciwgYTphY3RpdmUsIGE6dmlzaXRlZCB7CiAgICB0ZXh0LWRlY29yYXRpb246IG5vbmU7Cn0KI21haW4gewogICAgd2lkdGg6IDc4MHB4OwogICAgbWFyZ2luOiAwIGF1dG87CiAgICBtYXJnaW4tdG9wOiA1MHB4OwogICAgcGFkZGluZzogMTBweDsKICAgIGJvcmRlcjogMXB4IHNvbGlkICNmZmY7CiAgICBiYWNrZ3JvdW5kLWNvbG9yOiAjZmZmZmY7Cn0KZm9ybSBmaWVsZHNldCB7IGJvcmRlcjogMDsgfQpmb3JtIGZpZWxkc2V0IHAgYnIgeyBjbGVhcjogbGVmdDsgfQpsYWJlbCB7CiAgICBtYXJnaW4tdG9wOiA1cHg7CiAgICBkaXNwbGF5OiBibG9jazsKICAgIHdpZHRoOiAxMDBweDsKICAgIHBhZGRpbmc6IDA7CiAgICBmbG9hdDogbGVmdDsKfQppbnB1dCB7CiAgICBmb250LWZhbWlseTogVHJlYnVjaGV0IE1TOwogICAgYm9yZGVyOiAxcHggc29saWQgI0NDQzsKICAgIG1hcmdpbi1ib3R0b206IDVweDsKICAgIGJhY2tncm91bmQtY29sb3I6ICNmZmY7CiAgICBwYWRkaW5nOiAycHg7Cn0KaW5wdXQ6aG92ZXIgewogICAgYm9yZGVyOiAxcHggc29saWQgIzIyMjsKICAgIGJhY2tncm91bmQtY29sb3I6ICNFRUU7Cn0KPC9zdHlsZT4KPC9oZWFkPiAgCjxib2R5PiAgCgo8aDE+PGNlbnRlcj4iWW91IG11c3QgYmUgdGhlIGNoYW5nZSB5b3Ugd2FudCB0byBzZWUgaW4gdGhlIHdvcmxkLiIgYnkgTS5LLiBHYW5kaGkKPC9jZW50ZXI+PC9oMT4KCjwvYm9keT4KPC9odG1sPgoK

Ha, it works!

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pavel_lishin 4893 days ago

Sure, but that's the same inspirational quote every time.

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hamburglar 4893 days ago

I trust I don't need to explain how one might make it choose randomly from a large list of quotes if you really wanted to do this.

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snowman41 4893 days ago

"everytime you open your browser , by showing you quote". That amount of typos is terrible.

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kentf 4893 days ago