Banana Cargo

Any geek wants to make a startup, find a wife and go abroad. Everything is on the list, but in the reverse order Ilya Titov did it. I will talk about his project, which will definitely be useful to anyone who is looking for any inspiration for his drawings, illustrations, etc. and who has something to share in return.

The site was held primarily for themselves and their portfolio. No problems about monetization and “go abroad”, since Ilya is already there and financially independent. The idea is very transparent: to share links to sites, pictures, photos, illustrations. It turned out almost social graphic bookmarks. The script finds the “valuable cargo” automatically by the address specified by the user when adding material. There is a pre-moderation of the added material: the expert web comes to us, always Coca-Cola.
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The main page, for example, for the “illustration” tag looks like this:



As you can see, there is no scroll: moving around the page happens by dragging the mouse. The main language of the site is English. But, due to very little text support and simple interface, the English-non-speakers are unlikely to have difficulties.

In the title of the site in the first layouts the slogan “No skin, links!” Was used, which means “only links, without wrappers”. Then came the sunk ship, the Cthulhu and the falling cargo. All this, from js-coding to illustration on the whole page, was made by one person. So it goes…

http://bananacargo.com/