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Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide
Pitbull is coming to Stockholm. As a part of that prep, I built an
app with glassmorphism style counting down to the big day
Author : garyreckon
Score : 286 points
Date : 2025-03-09 00:04 UTC (21 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (daale.club)
(TXT) w3m dump (daale.club)
| cjbconnor wrote:
| Looks cool, but the bottom lines flicker badly on Firefox,
| Windows 11.
| idopmstuff wrote:
| I mean based on this website I'm gonna say feature not a bug
| flaminHotSpeedo wrote:
| Fine, I guess I'll just go take my IE7 impressions elsewhere!
| busterarm wrote:
| My new home page. Love it!
| josu wrote:
| This is horrible.
| nadermx wrote:
| Dale!
| AJMaxwell wrote:
| And amazing
| cs3f16 wrote:
| This feels like a fever dream.
| bigbuppo wrote:
| The concept of Pitbull seems like fever dream.
| yoyopa wrote:
| The bigger they are, the harder they fall (Yeah) This biggity
| boy's a diggity dog (Yeah) I have 'em like Miley Cyrus, clothes
| off Twerkin' in they bras and thongs (Timber) Face down, booty up
| (Timber) That's the way we like the what? (Timber) I'm slicker
| than an oil spill She say she won't, but I bet she will, timber
| wincy wrote:
| I came, I saw, I conquered
|
| I saw, I conquered, I came
|
| Truly the Shakespeare of our time
| knowknow wrote:
| This is the epitome of crappy website designs and I love it. The
| unnecessary gradients, nauseating movements, ambiguous buttons,
| and overall clutter really symbolizes Mr. worldwide's shoddiness.
| treetalker wrote:
| And leaving the upside down exclamation point off the "Dale!"
| -- chef's kiss. So Miami.
|
| Adding a "que bola!!!" somewhere would be the icing on the
| cake.
| MarcelOlsz wrote:
| I will always respect him for doing the Alaska show.
| jayrot wrote:
| For real. I'm sure he got money or whatever but it does show
| a certain sense of humor/self awareness
| jagermo wrote:
| I also have not yet heard that he is a sex criminal,
| despite his lyrics.
| smallpipe wrote:
| There was an online contest to vote for Pitbull to go perform
| at your local Walmart. The internet being what it is, he got
| sent to the most remote Walmart in the US, Kodiak Alaska. He
| did go and perform. What a top lad.
| techsolomon wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak,_Alaska#In_popular_cul
| t... :-)
| rchowe wrote:
| Walmart having a very large fleet of corporate private jets
| likely made the decision and trip easier for him.
| deadbabe wrote:
| If you call yourself Mr. Worldwide you can't really say
| no.
| oliwarner wrote:
| The pulsing title underline causing page shift is genius. It's
| a blinking marquee away from perfection.
| bmicraft wrote:
| Helps that my phone renders the layout shifting at ~5fps
| Zee2 wrote:
| My iPhone 16 Pro immediately started heating up the moment I
| opened the page. 11/10 working as designed!
| jameslk wrote:
| Yes, I didn't know my phone had a secret feature of becoming an
| instant hand warmer until I visited this website
| alabhyajindal wrote:
| This is too funny!! Dale!
| alehlopeh wrote:
| Now I'm aware that a lot of Swedish people are into Pitbull.
| dkh wrote:
| A lot of _people_ are into Pitbull.
| heftymouse wrote:
| A lot of people worldwide, one could say
| DarmokJalad1701 wrote:
| Who is Dale?
| alehlopeh wrote:
| It's Miami (read: Spanish) for "word" or "cheers"
| adynaton wrote:
| It means " go" or "let's go"
| alehlopeh wrote:
| Sure but what's it used for. To finish a conversation.
| _3u10 wrote:
| It's both, it's not just a Miami thing. I hear it all
| over Latin America. In both ways like dale dale Olimpia
| (go <team> go).
|
| Me: I'll have a burger. Waiter: dale.
|
| I don't hear it much in Argentina tho, but maybe I wasn't
| listening for it.
| CPLX wrote:
| Don't forget "vale" which I always think of as being
| Spain Spanish but you hear it all over the Spanish
| speaking world too. Which is like almost the same, but
| not the same.
| treetalker wrote:
| You could translate the Spanish literally as "hit it". It's
| like saying "alright!"
| ch4s3 wrote:
| I think "let's gooooooo!" Is probably closer? Ish
| CPLX wrote:
| If we are being literal literal it's "give it" or "give (it
| to you)"
| ch4s3 wrote:
| Right, but that obviously isn't how it should be
| translated in context.
| CPLX wrote:
| It's pretty close. I always think of "send it" as a
| pretty close English equivalent phrase.
| lxe wrote:
| Peak weekend HN
| kylecazar wrote:
| I thought there must be another Mr. Worldwide I'm not familiar
| with. Nope, it's Pitbull ;)
|
| I like it.
| bix6 wrote:
| Knocked it out of the park with this one
| lunarcave wrote:
| I don't know why I like it, but I like it.
| memhole wrote:
| I find the moving background nauseating lol. I like it though.
| Hope you enjoy the show!
| throwask wrote:
| Seems more 80s/vaporwave to me than glassmorphism.
|
| The music player isn't working for me, chrome is reporting the
| following:
|
| Cookies with the SameSite=None; Secure and not Partitioned
| attributes that operate in cross-site contexts are third-party
| cookies. Chrome is moving towards a new experience that allows
| users to choose to browse without third-party cookies.
| dkh wrote:
| Same problem.
| tt_dev wrote:
| I had my phone on my chest and breathing. Took me a minute to
| realize my breath matched the movement.
| boristsr wrote:
| This reminds me very much of the fun of the "old internet", late
| 90's early 2000s geocities fun! Love it.
| maxfurman wrote:
| This is one of the stupidest, most amazing things I've seen in
| quite a while. I'm glad to see someone doing something silly just
| for fun and not just hustling.
| seliopou wrote:
| For the pitbull lovers, there's http://www.pitbullparty.com/
| samtheDamned wrote:
| The "How to play" button being in the American Horror Story
| font really finishes the whole thing
| ks2048 wrote:
| I want to love/hate this, but when I click Dale, it says come
| back tomorrow (?)
| NetOpWibby wrote:
| Thank you for this, I hope it shoots to the front page.
| pratik661 wrote:
| All this needs is a song that starts immediately playing when
| this loads in your browser and you have a full nostalgia trip
| slicktux wrote:
| Dude! Where are the DJ horn sound effects!?
| dev_stdout wrote:
| This is nauseating. 10/10, no notes.
| vandahm wrote:
| I wish I had thought of this.
| SanjayMehta wrote:
| I have no idea what's going on here and from the comments it
| appears that this is by design.
| therm0 wrote:
| Unironically better than all the 'Another GPT Wrapper' apps that
| get submitted here.
| ecocentrik wrote:
| Pitbull's personal philosophy strongly compliments the Musk,
| Andreessen, Thiel, Altman worldview. I imagine Musk's first
| Martian colony will outlaw all music except for Pitbull.
| NehalNetha wrote:
| is the page breathing lollll
| bigbuppo wrote:
| This is so stupid I love it.
| nickvec wrote:
| This site made me feel nauseous.
| baobabKoodaa wrote:
| working as intended?
| kylehotchkiss wrote:
| I hope every second of the show delivers what you've been
| anticipating. 11/10 great work
| fastball wrote:
| Love the website but that Pitbull quote of the day is kinda...
| rapey
| lazide wrote:
| On the plus side, pitbull seems like one of the few with no
| actual rape accusations. So that's good?
| link2navjeet wrote:
| this will cure my adhd
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Looks great, though surely Mr Worldwide has sufficient wisdom to
| go around that we don't have to ration it to one quote a day!
|
| I've seen Pitbull twice, it's always a great show. Lots of energy
| and plenty of nuggets of wisdom dispensed between songs, lol.
| stevage wrote:
| Who or what is MrWorldwide? Lot of people in this thread seem to
| know.
| tobylane wrote:
| It's a line in several songs by the rapper Pitbull.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitbull_(rapper)
| pirbull wrote:
| The fact that this is in the lead up to a show outside the US
| makes this even better
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| Nice one. I appreciate the humor. I t reminded me of an app I
| used to praise on my Nokia Lumia on Windows Phone, it was a
| simple Chael Sonnen wisdom app I could open anytime to get some
| quotes from the GOAT
| n2dasun wrote:
| This is awesome, but also makes me want to fight you
| thiht wrote:
| I love that the "not now" button does nothing
| kittikitti wrote:
| This app is revolutionary in the design. It's not campy but the
| next generation. It's an upgrade from AI slop, perhaps "AI camp"?
| Like, people asked an AI for a million features, it gave them
| slop, but during camp they all figured it out and made it to the
| front page!
|
| I also like the "breathing". This is probably nauseating for most
| people but I sort of do this while scrolling so I have my finger
| ready to swipe in between the seconds I read through the screen.
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