A lot of the comments here seem to be enjoying the joke and having fun, but shouldn't we take the review requests on HN a little more seriously? It's the only resource on the web that allows for this form of quality feedback from such great talent and experience as is present on HN. I'd just hate to start seeing it abused, and then fade away as people stop paying attention to the review requests.
This is bound to "go viral" and have "organic growth"
If I were you I'd start seeking VC immediately. At the end of the day, this idea is so simple, so uniquely brilliant and really well executed that you can worry about a business model after you're done acquiring users.
ten year old girls is definitely an untapped market opportunity just waiting for monetary exploitation by devious but brilliant entrepreneurs eager to enhance shareholder value.
I'm sure Mattell are shaking in their pants, knowing that their core market is about to be exploited heavily by a soon to be funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and quickly acquired by Google, company much more aligned with web 2.0 and an uncanny ability to align the interests of multiple stakeholders in the fast changing world of international webcommerce.
I must agree, this is the number one unicorns and rainbow adding site on the internet. I am disappointed that they don't frolic about and they appear blind the concept of whitespace areas, perhaps in the "pro" edition.
I am also a bit ashamed that I executed a stranger's Javascript in my Hacker News context. Who knows what just happened to my cookie? (Ok, I just read the URL and I'm safe, at least for the javascript present the instant I downloaded it.)
Sorry to disappoint you. We're focusing on "less is more" and after long debates we decided that frolicing was something our users could live without. We take your feedback serious and if there is more user request, we will certainly be open to a later implementation.
I'm obviously doing something wrong. Nothing happens when I click the button, and I can't drag the link at right to my toolbar. I spent 3 minutes trying all sorts of things, and have given up.
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I'm using IE7 on Windows XP Home, and I have JavaScript turned on. I don't see unicorns, glitter, or any changes.
I actually thought it was quite the fun idea. My only suggestions are to increase the number of pictures (and thus the cuteness) as well as allow for the pictures to be dragged around. I don't want to stop clicking "cornify" if the button gets covered up :)
You've had lots of positive feedback, and I'm sure it's a good idea, but it's caused me nothing but trouble.
Firstly - and you'll see this in my earlier comments, it simply didn't work for me on IE7/XP Home edition. Now it works (Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6 on SuSE 10.1) but when I closed the tab the "music" kept running.
How many browser/OS combinations have you tested this on? I'm left with a machine that I may have to reboot to get control back of the sound system, and I'm not a happy customer. If you do this to people "in the wild" you may get some comment significantly more negative than this one.
this is kind of cute, but not entertaining enough to make the lack of intellectual interestingness worthwhile. execution ok but not stellar: graphics are large and invasive.
with a little thought this could have been cute. inject the images into the dom, maybe to replace advertisements or brighten logos. do a little data mining or randomness to inject stormclouds every-so-often. do something cute when used on weather sites.
It would be nice to calculate the offset of the "Cornify" button (when it uses the button instead of the bookmarklet) so that when you generate some insane amounts of unicorns they don't cover the "Cornify" button.
Y'all can laugh -- good lord, I did, thanks Cornify! -- but you'd be shocked & awed to learn the money people make with stuff that's not far removed from this.
