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Show HN: ChronoFlo – Create timelines you can share on the web

by alexkearns on 11/26/20, 3:12 PM with 14 comments

  • by alexkearns on 11/26/20, 3:16 PM

    I posted about ChronoFlo six months ago. And got no response from the community. Since then, I have added a ton of new features, including hand-drawn style timelines using RoughJS:

    More info about hand-drawn-style timelines here: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/blog/entry/hand-drawn-time...

    Here's a timeline we created about US presidents: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3114/USA-P...

    I am the creator of this. Would love to know what you all think?

  • by Gys on 11/26/20, 6:17 PM

    Looks beautiful with a lot of attention for detail. Well done.

    To me the dark theme with stars makes me think of space, horoscopes, fortune telling. Not sure if that is good.

    All though I like it, I cannot think of a use case. Maybe you should give visitors more suggestions on how to use it. And something to get me started quickly. Maybe add a button prominently to select something I could have, like a calender (I noticed from the faq that you can import ical and rss). Or maybe by giving me a link to some interesting public rss feed. Add a long list of public time based rss feeds with import buttons?

    i think being able to quickly get started with something even mildly useful is now missing. You have to think more about connecting / importing existing time based (or maybe not even that) content. The customization comes later, as a next step, once I have something that I like.

    How about git repos? Make it look interesting so people want to embed on github. Good publicity :-)

  • by kossTKR on 11/26/20, 8:46 PM

    Looks awesome! I remember creating a timeline app in Vue a few years back, this looks pretty solid in comparison.

    I'm sure you can find a market in the news/corporate identity field especially if you make it highly customizable and easy to drop in.

  • by Hitton on 11/26/20, 6:18 PM

    It looks neat, but seems really niche. I'm not sure there is a market for such tool. I could see it used in education, but I'm not sure that teachers/schools would want to pay subscription for this.

  • by sagz on 11/26/20, 8:16 PM

    looks great. tried the US presidents timeline and UK Coronavirus timeline. I feel the contrast is too low in the US timeline.

    both timelines look low-res pixelated on my hidpi phones.

    scrubbing on the bottom timelines runs janky on Chrome and Samsung Internet Browser on Pixel 5. also janky on Safari on iPhone 12 pro.

  • by sam_goody on 11/26/20, 8:18 PM

    Thanks for posting pricing clearly and up front!