Show HN: WebMotion – A pleasant keyboard only web browsing experience

dufferzafar · on July 4, 2014

When I was a Chrome user, I used to use Vimum: http://vimium.github.io/

I'm now using Firefox, with VimFx: https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/

I'll give this a shot the next time I open Chrome.

Will there be a Firefox port?

siliconviking · on July 4, 2014

I would say 30% chance as it stands now, but depending on total level of interest...!

jorgearturo · on July 4, 2014

May I recommend that you consider better integration with github? for example, the 'S' is used to focus the search bar, which still works, github's took higher priority, which is good for me, but WebMotion had assigned the 'S' to another link, needless to say that didn't work.

siliconviking · on July 8, 2014

Hello again Jorge, thanks for your email as well.. sounds like there would need to be some kind of domain specific way to block certain shortcuts....

jorgearturo · on July 3, 2014

Thank you! The more I can avoid the mouse, the better. Once installed it works great. Not sure if all features were supposed to work on the demo page before installing, HJKL navigation didn't work on Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 under Ubuntu 12.04

siliconviking · on July 4, 2014

Oh.. yeah, those features will only work after you have installed the extension. I updated the text to clarify that! Thanks

jorgearturo · on July 4, 2014

Is the code available somewhere?

siliconviking · on July 4, 2014

Haven't decided that yet actually.. currently no though.

jorgearturo · on July 4, 2014

I think this is the sort of lybrary with the potential to go fairly popular on github. -side comment I loved noteZilla btw-. I'm curious about what's keeping you from sharing, do you have a "monetization" strategy?

siliconviking · on July 8, 2014

Thanks regarding Notezilla! I like to generally think of me writing software as a money-making activity, so yes I would be looking for options to monetize this if it reaches a decent level of distribution, so that's what's keeping me from immediately opening it up.

I could also see WebMotion as a fairly popular tool if it gets some reach. The monetization strategy could be a free extension but charge $0.99 for premium version with some additional features I have in mind... Thoughts?