HexDay.com

I’ve just finished up and have pushed into Public Alpha™ my new online experiment for the fortnight (I’m trying to catchup on my procrastination backlog).

http://hexday.com

What’s it all about? Well it’s an online personal color of the day picker and logger. That’s it. I know, Jim doesn’t get it either. Basically I thought it would be interesting, if you were only able to pick one color a day, your “color of the day” and those were logged and shown in daily context with every other color that was picked, it might make for some interesting patterns.

Colors that people pick, could be influenced by so many things, how they feel, what’s the weather like, what other colors they’ve encountered that day, what other people have picked.

If you had a thousand people picking colors and showed them as a row (sized by the number of times each was chosen) would you get patterns related to the weather? to the news? to the day of the week? the time of the year?

Who knows, but maybe this will show something, if nothing else, it’ll be interesting to see how your color palette and choices change over time, who else is picking colors you like, etc.

So the “rules” are easy. Pick 1 color per day. It can be any hex value, so there are a mere 16,777,216 possible choices.

Currently you can only add and view your colors on the site, but I’m in the process of making a very basic API available, some basic JS embed gadgets (show the last 7 days of your color picks on your blog for example), a dashboard widget, and some other interesting ideas. I’ll update as and when more features get pushed live.

If you happen across any issues, or you have a question, just pop me an email at admin@hexday.com and I’ll do the best I can to help or solve the issue.

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Ben Brophy 11.07.07 / 12pm

Pretty fun. One suggestion for would be to add a feature to the “add” page that suggests 10 random colors. Kind of a way to reduce the users choices and make it easier for them to think about what they really want.

JP 11.07.07 / 1pm

I’m actually going to add tonight a bar along the top that shows the current top XXX number of chosen colors that can be clicked and chosen from within the add view. Try and make it easier for the user to pick a color that’s already in the mix.

Currently if you haven’t picked a color for today and you navigate to a color homepage you get a button asking if you want to select this color as your hexDay color. It’s only on the first registration (when you don’t have a color chosen ever) that you get funneled to the add page off the bat, next to you login it’ll take you to the main hexday page.

I have all along wishfully been fearful that I get 1,000 separate unique colors chosen in a day, and suddenly I can’t fit them all in as their individual width will be less that 1% if the screen is narrower that 1,000px. (being anal, it actually only shows that last possible 700 colors based on number of times it’s chosen in the day and the timestamp for the choice. if a color is chosen twice it will be twice as wide as one that is chosen only once. That herd color picking needs to be encouraged. (it’s like digg with colors - when put like that this is an even sillier idea that I initially thought it would be).

James Wiltshire 11.07.07 / 3pm

Neat idea. You’re turning into a one-man-webapp-factory these days ;-)
I tried to play, but the ‘add’ page didn’t work for me (using NetNewsWire inbuilt browser).

JP 11.07.07 / 3pm

NetNewsWire, as I just explained to Jim here, you can’t post to the site using a house brick either.

Use a proper browser and I’m sure it will be fine ;-) (caveat, front page doesn’t work in Safari 2.0 (yet))

It worked dandy this morning as I set my hexday color using my iPhone to the color of the sky as it filtered thru my window at 6am.

JP 11.07.07 / 10pm

Ohh and as an FYI, the site currently has some major layout issues in Safari 2.0 and IE6. I’ll fix them when I get a chance, it wasn’t a huge priority to me, as I wasn’t expecting many IE6 users, but when I get some time, I’ll add an IE6 style sheet to fix the issues. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Jon Sykes

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