176 points by soGeneri 2 days ago
I made an open source directory for sharing projects
Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further! Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users.
Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!
I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.
Isn’t that just a blog or podcast or even a YouTube channel. You might think I’m being funny, but this is the core purpose of the web—low friction/barriers to put your personal content on www. The low barrier platforms are YouTube and any of the social media apps when a *blogger use these to promote their content hosted anywhere they choose (for all the various reasons someone choose how they want to produce content)
Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever
The hard problem here is getting people to contribute with content. They have no incentive to share their pain points. Often they don't even know about what it is or how to describe it. You kinda have to do the leg work and diligence of talking to them and trying to pull that information from them, rather than them pushing to you. But I agree this is immensely important.
I am solving this by buidling https://huntlie.com
Users can give feedback for their product which can be used by others to decide which product in the same niche they want before trying every product and then finding out.
I am also trying to figure out ratings (Usability, Support, Value for money) for each product.
Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?
isn't this basically Twitter, FB and even Linkedin (laymen complaining about how they can't find jobs or get ghosted), as well as community/help forums for specific products? Of course, there's no central forum for sharing pains, but people tend to complain in the platform where they're most likely to get a response...
Agreed! And, i would call such a site/portal/etc., something like "Awesome Pain"...I guess it could serve as a repo of anything from:
* startup ideas...
* to gotchas for devs to think about fixing for their respective apps/services...
* to a study in best practices, or maybe what not todos...
...etc. ;-)
Would love to have itslaunched.com added as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712666
My dream is to create product that I don’t need to promote. I would like to have such market fit that people will search for product by them self.
> Niche Communities
> Designer News - A community for designers, where you can share your design-related side projects and get feedback from other designers.
Sadly, Designer News looks like it has shut down: https://www.designernews.co
This is helpful, but shouldn’t be a Show HN, as it is not something that can be tried out. The Guidelines:
> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
Thank you for the comment! I had no clue that Github has RSS feeds for each repo.
For everyone else, I found this article to be super helpful to understand what kind of RSS functionality is available: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-git...
Cool. I actually posted my project to a few open-source directory sites yesterday. I got an email today that it will go live on the 4th of July unless I pay for a quicker submission... I emailed them and pointed out it was just hurting themselves and they said they have a queue and they only do 3 a day so every launch gets its own time sort of thing. The value proposition is that you can find alternatives not that you can launch your project there, it makes no sense to me other than they've seen launch platforms do it so...
I think there needs to be a good open-source alternatives directory that isn't run by someone who doesn't treat it as a launch platform.
isn't that "closed" ?
meaning not anyone can post something there?
Oh true, forgot about that. You need someone to invite you IIRC.
Missing these:
• The Linux Software Map: <https://lsm.qqx.org/>
• Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) <http://freshcode.club/>