Show HN: TikTok for Beautiful Words

by lightstackon 2/21/2025, 9:41 PMwith 7 comments

by lightstackon 2/21/2025, 9:41 PM

Infinite content-swiping sites are in fashion, I suppose, so why not at least learn beautiful English words while aimlessly tapping or clicking your screen. Words that I found especially appealing are marked as legendary (you will know what I mean when you see them).

The Stack is Svelte with Tailwind, Directus for managing the words and Umami for a bit of insight into the traffic and there is actually a limited number of words, since I manually collected them. No AI was involved in the creation of this website, the words or descriptions.

So use your fugacious chance, until my server gets hugged to death :)

by dhruvkbon 2/23/2025, 5:12 AM

Where it it getting the data from? Is it possible to download a subset of that dataset offline, so that I can keep swiping and learn new "fancy words" when I'm not with an Internet connection.

by Rodmineon 2/22/2025, 2:57 PM

Please don’t capitalize the first letter unless it is a proper noun. Would make it slightly better experience.

by inatreecrown2on 2/22/2025, 4:39 AM

I like it! I would change the URL from fancyword to something more along the lines of the title here.

by unknown1443on 2/22/2025, 4:44 AM

I have a suggestion, how about adding a regularly used sentence, with the word?