FYI - I created this simple site for myself. I use it as my homepage to get a little motivational reminder every time I open a new tab.

I thought it might be useful for startup founders, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone who works alone.

Looks like fortune for the web. Are you using fortune as a backend, or for quotes?

No, I had actually never heard of fortune, but I will look into it now :)

I am currently just hand selecting the content and storing it in a database. Nothing fancy.

> I had actually never heard of fortune

A long, long time ago in this galaxy, this was the first program to run when a user logged in/opened a new terminal. Not on every system of course.

Still does on all my systems.

Computers compress everything, including the time it takes to feel like an old fart.

Still the default on Slackware.

I was just thinking about that and making my own website using fortune. You spoiled the surprise.

I did put fortune on the web already, complete with an API that you can call from your .bashrc. http://www.iheartquotes.com

You should also consider making this a Twitter account. That's actually where IHQ has gotten the most traction.

Make it so that I can click the content instead of scrolling down to click a small link lost in a corner.

Funny, I didn't even notice that link until several F5s later. Nevertheless, yours is a good suggestion.

Reminded me of fortune , so I typed it into a terminal and got:

Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?

A: One less drunk.

On St. Patrick's day of all days :)

Looks great! Would be really fun to add this to a monitor or picture-frame which would auto-refresh every so often.

One suggestion: Add attribution to the XKCD images and don't steal their bandwidth. I got this one as a motivation earlier: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

Added the attribution and link to XKCD.

I don't consider it "stealing their bandwidth" though, as XKCD explicitly allows hotlinking - http://xkcd.com/license.html

Awesome, I had no idea that XKCD encouraged people to do that - major props to them!

Awesome site, I absolutely love it. The only problem is that there isn't enough quotes, I think you should add a lot more.

I collect quotes and have quite a collection of good ones. Here are my favorite quotes, a lot of them would fit great on minimotivation.com:

http://kristofferr.com/sitater.html

Great list! I will be adding several of those to minimotivation.com. Thanks.

I like it. Thanks! A way to link to a specific quote/video/etc would be great for sharing with others.

I was thinking about adding a permalink. I'll do that now. Thanks.

I wrote a similar thing into our project management system here at work. Whenever we receive notifications about a project or something, a little small quote like the ones you're publishing are added to the end of the e-mail...

It would have been nice to add that feature by using your site and grabbing a quote instead of having to find the quotes myself and creating the code (even though it was just roughly an hour).

So maybe make an API for it with one command: "Get". You could return a json object or xml or whatever. {"quote":"blablabla", "author": "Henry the Third"}

It seems like an overkill, though :-)

Nice! Is there a way to suggest quotes?

Not yet, but I'd like to add it.

Until then, feel free to post suggestions here!

I've always been a fan of Seneca, the Roman philosopher and Stoic.

Here's a great collection of quotes: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Seneca

This video just came up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnrLv6z-mM&feature=playe...

It blew me away.

Great, don't take any suggestions from here. The app looks perfect, but it would have been fantastic if you had an API interface :)

No seriously, the app is minimalistic and well-done.

Cool, looks similar to something I made last month :-)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128574 http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more http://www.consumelesscreatemore.com/

have you thought about automatically updating the quotes every 10-15 seconds?

The text is way too big for me to easily read it.

It would be great to be able to adjust the font size...?

Probably not the solution you are looking for, but you can always use your browser to zoom out or make the text smaller.

You're right, I forgot that firefox remembers the zoom level for each page and when I go to another page/link in the same tab, the zoom level goes normal again. Good job FF.

Ctr - - -

I was giving feedback. I know how to use my browser but that is hardly convenient. ;-)

Nice concept and i like the simple execution.

the font size does require me to "move my eyes" a lot to read longer phrases. i like how completely simple and to the point it is though.

it would be neat to let users submit their own inspirational nuggets - though you would probably have to review them to avoid misuse.

Love the simple, clean design without any distractions. Great idea too. Are you manually adding the quotes/vidoes?

If it's possible to do it in a very subtle manner (footer?), maybe a small tweet icon would be nice (for quotes add the quote to tweet, for videos add the video link)

Yes, I am manually adding the content.

I like the idea of integrating with twitter, facebook, buzz, etc. I will be looking into it.

Nice. And added to my little inspiration collection :)

http://inspiry.tumblr.com/post/454443506/minimotivation

And of course thanks to HN for most the content there.

Thanks! And nice collection.

This is just brilliant! Great work! I think you should be able to click the quote to go to the next one rather than having to go to the bottom of the page and click refresh. Other than that I loved it!

Cool. Mind sharing the list of quotes you use as a single file? :)

You can see all the quotes here - http://www.minimotivation.com/quotes.php

Would you like to see it in a different format?

How about a simple voting mechanism which will display more popular quotes more frequently?

I like the idea of voting to show how much people like a certain item, but if you use it to influence the rotation, in the long run you'll keep seeing the same content over and over.

Thanks.

Is there any possibility of having a distinct URL for each quote, so I could pass it along? Of course, if you plan to tie into Twitter, etc, you'd want that, no?

I like the site, nice and simple.

My only question is where do the quotes come from? I hit f5 too fast before noticing one of the quotes was by "Heywood Jablowme"

Make this into a chrome extension as an addition to the default "new tab" page :)

annd you've inspired me towards a new idea, hooray!

Good job!

I've set it as my startup page in FF. It's a good way to start work/browsing.

Yes, simple and straight to the point. Good going matey

I like it. What about Star Trek quotes ? :p

Hey good job, really like it!

Thanks! My new homepage :)

Also, please don't stop adding to the collection. I'm a serious fan.

Thanks! I really appreciate the encouragement. I plan to keep adding to the collection. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them here. Cheers.

Nice.