Show HN: TubeHound - video search made easy, using Meteor framework

Show HN: TubeHound - video search made easy, using Meteor framework(thound.meteor.com)

3 points by thound 13 years ago | 5 comments

sarhus 13 years ago |

Cool idea. I'd like to see it with a darker tooltip on hover. The transparent effect is a bit...too transparent :)

If you don't like twitter bootstrap (for your css), you could use this: http://www.getskeleton.com/ It's light enough, and provide a good starting point.

Add colors, borders, and shadows later. Focus first on layout. Come close to screen, and look for details. Go a bit far away from your monitor, and look again the entire design. Sometime it helps to get a better overall view.

thound 13 years ago | |

Thanks :D Yeah, the tooltip layout is quite a controversial matter, someone hates, someone loves it... but probably more of the former than the latter. ;-)

I think bootstrap is great... Also I was thinking about something like http://suprb.com/apps/gridalicious/ for the videos grids;

The tricky part is that these grids have reactive behaviour on resize (actually I think the response to resize it's one of coolest features, in that the number of videos shown will adjust whenever you resize the browser window, so that everything still fits on the page). So I always need to be able to compute on the fly how many items will fit on the screen, because if the window is smaller than its fullscreen size, then I can actually avoid to retrieve any data for videos that won't fit, and hence cut bandwidth usage and response time.

xander66 13 years ago |

Soooooo cool I think the most useful thing is that you can easily start a new search about the title of one of the results. Perhaps it should be possible to open these new searches in a new window, so that you wouldn't have to start again.

Also I appreciated the RESTlike interface, kinda cool you can share searches on facebook or twitter (G+, no one cares :D!)

The graphics design: it's a little bit messy, I'd like to see a more coherent style.

jfaucett 13 years ago |

nice! from a functional standpoint I think this app is doing everything right. Nice autocomplete, swift lazyloading of results, the nice toggle over options (full screen, seach video etc), multilingual support, so I have to say again really well done!! My only critiques would really just be design things. For instance the color choices of bright red, grey and black, which with the rounded corners and drop shadows (inner and outer) is kind of over the top for me semi-spam looking - but maybe that's just me. My tastes are usually for a cleaner more white less flashy look. But I'm not a graphic designer so take that for what you will. Awesome app though I'm impressed :)

thound 13 years ago | |

Thanks! :D

You're right about the design: I built the current one kind of incrementally while adding features, and I'm not a graphic designer either - but I guess you could already tell!!! ^_^. So I'd definitely need to start fresh with a clean design... I'm striving for the help of a professional, actually.

Thanks again, I'm flattered :)