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The text might need a little styling but I like little hacks like this. It helps to push a site to develop the functionality.
Especially like that the hack came so quickly
It's okay for the first time submit but if the url already exists on inbound.org it won't recognize that therefore your voting up of the url will only result in dupes. Needs more work and probably an API or help from inbound for it to actually be practical.
If the same URL is submitted twice, the second submission counts as a vote up.Try submitting this url for example: http://www.searcherize.com/add-a-submit-to-inbound-org-button-to-your-website/
We can build a simple API endpoint to provide the current upvote count back for a specific URL. Ideally, it would be awesome if this button worked like the Facebook/twitter buttons -- and was the same form size/form-factor so that more websites would put the button on their site.
I made a button just like that: http://www.hitwake.com/inbound-button/. An API would've been useful, but got by without one.
Hit me up on Twitter or somewhere if you ever start with an API and want to hear my insights. Basically just a JSONP endpoint to fetch the counter would probably be enough.
Even though I recommended this a couple weeks ago, I think we need to take a step back. Rand & Dharmesh created this to be a HN for inbound marketers, and they wanted to do things the way they intended to be - as much like HN as possible. That's why they do minimal profiles, generic upvoting, and discussions like this. The point I'm trying to make is that HN users hated a "submit to HN" button because it screamed manipulation. I think the same goes for this community - even though it's a cool idea, their should be a lot more discussion before we genuinely accept this in the community.
Interesting point Jon. I've never heard about people having a problem with a "submit to HN" button, why would that invite more manipulation than a bookmarklet?
Here, I think this will answer some questions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454657 I think it would, because really only the people that care about Inbound would have the bookmarklet. Again, refer to that great convo above.
Wow you dudes waste NO time!
I've just turned this into a WordPress plugin for everyone: http://inbound.org/social/2012/02/wordpress-plugin-to-add-inboundorg-sharing-to-posts/#comments Thank you for the inspiration, hope people can use this!
That was fast! Nice work Steven.
Thanks Mike :)
No longer works with the new site. Going to update the bookmarklet AJ?
Here's a new inbound.org button I made: http://www.hitwake.com/inbound-button/
There's still no API, and the button may (will?) break if the inbound.org site is changed in certain places.