Hey! Go to http://corkboard.me instead of the link set by ycombinator. corkboard.me automatically gives each person their own personal corkboard, but it does this through a 302 redirect. I should probably change this in the future, but for now go directly to http://corkboard.me for your own. (Admins, if you could change the link I'd appreciate it. Thanks!) -- Tim
It would be nice to be able to zoom in and out to see more or less at a time. In general, this concept lands itself well for Google maps API where you model your board as a map and it handles scrolling and zooming for you.
It would be nice if you allowed us to rename our corkboard (corkboard.me/[my_name_or_whatever]) to something more meaningful, then I can get to it from work or home without checking my delicious account.
Off topic as usual, but interesting from the developer and user point of view.
If you are going to give me a 10 char ID, please make it all lower case and without numbers, I hate hitting shift or having to move my eyes from the keyboard to the numpad and back.
Neat app and one of the best examples of a keep-it-simple webapp I've seen.
But let's talk about the ID. Sure, it's a hundred and forty trillion, but it's also less than 48 bits. Note that every visit to the site's root URL generates a new ID, and compare with The Fridge which (very reasonably) uses a 128-bit-equivalent ID: 25 alphanumerics!
I'm not buying this "hard to type" argument. First, an app would ideally just allow you to get a more-typable version if you specifically request it. Second, how often are you typing in IDs? When the URL is on paper or on another device? I'm thinking it's not often enough to truly affect usability. Third, I use a keyboard that doesn't even have a numpad and somehow I get by.
Finally, let's say we spec out that we do want at least 47 bits of IDs. The site can get there by using 10 lowercase letters or 8 of all alphanumerics. Game over. Now the lowercase option comes down to adding two characters for the sake of better typability, which is a crummy trade. Not only for Twitter reasons but because the longer the URL is, the less shareable it looks.
I see this type of ID everywhere and I'm curious as to how they are created and how "random" they are (the chances of generating two of the same). A python snippet would be great, of course :)
Not really. Random.sample samples from a population multiple times: that means no doubles (unless they were in the population as well). Try it: sample 30 times from string.ascii_lowercase. Since you did it with 10, less than len(population), it didn't croak, but it also doesn't get you the numbers mentioned above.
Here's one I like better: "".join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for _ in xrange(len))
Oh yeah you're probably right about that. Good work. By the way, any suggestions on that phrase? I'm not a native speaker so my Japanese isn't very good.
This is one of the first things I test when I find a site like this. Most web developers don't seem to take into consideration things like character sets and encoding, yet they are so important.
Could you make it more obvious where to click and hold to drag?
I think you want to allow the user to select the text with the mouse without moving the note, but maybe some kind of styling at the bottom and top of the note to designate a "drag" zone.
Looks like a neat idea, but can you please add a Terms of Service page, even if it's just a brief one? That might set folks a bit more at ease for posting their TODOs and reminders.
Looks really good. One small refinement: deleted notes could appear on a list in the corner say - maybe with a screwed up motif - so I can recover something I delete by accident :-)
Very cool, well built.. but from a UX/UI perspective, it strikes me as a little bit odd that I would be sticking post-its to a cork board. Maybe a refrigerator or whiteboard texture would be more fitting. Or, so that you don't have to change your domain and branding, you can add thumbtack graphics.
This thing would be great for story-boarding if it supported images and other media types. IFrame would be cool to be able to bring in external content into one of the notes. With a few more features, you got yourself a winner here. Making the controls contextual to the note could keep it simple. Let me know if you do decide to add other media types, I would be an avid user.
Nice how does one add an image, I don't see any ways to add one. As well another nice feature would be the ability to group notes. So that when a user adds an image they could drop sticky's on it and then group them so that they move together.
Some refinements - Mac, 10.6.5, Firefox 3.6.12, Creating a new note only happens in the lower right corner. I have to drag it more to be able to use the note.
I would pay to use this on my small biz intranet. i.e license it.
Thanks Jason! I thinking about ways of monetizing this. Send me your email or twitter handle and we can talk about getting you in as beta users (to tim [at] timothyjcoulter.com, free/low cost in exchange for feedback).
Great Job - A month ago I had the thought of creating a similar cork board concept app myself, using html/js/css - today I open HN and I see your app - well done!
It appears that two browsers (Firefox and Chrome) on the same machine can edit a board, but it can't be edited by two or more machines at the same time. Bummer.
Nicely done. I attempted doing something similar but it was not executed as cleanly as yours. Is there a way to pin items so I don't accidentally move them?
creating a new note by double clicking would be nice, since the rate of notes created by mistake would be lower :)
plus the image url feature doesn't work with any of my browsers (Mac OSX 10.6.5 Safari 5, Chrome 8, Firefox 4)
Thanks! Noted. For the image url, are you pressing enter after pasting your URL? Let me know if that doesn't work, and if not, we'll drill down into why it's not working for you (def want to fix it if it isn't).
This could be awesome, if done transparently. The greatest appeal of this application is it's straight-up simplicity: you click, start typing and your notes are stored. Feature bloat would really detract from this experience.
