Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

teddyh · a year ago

Missing these:

• The Linux Software Map: <https://lsm.qqx.org/>

• Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) <http://freshcode.club/>

soGeneri · a year ago

Gonna look into these, thanks for sharing!

pknerd · a year ago

I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.

preciousoo · a year ago

Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever

pknerd · a year ago

The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face

xtiansimon · a year ago

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)

samsquire · a year ago

If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.

heyarviind2 · a year ago

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.

mdaniel · a year ago

Isn't that basically https://stackoverflow.com/ and/or https://serverfault.com/ ?

AznHisoka · a year ago

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...

jasfi · a year ago

There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.

stuartjohnson12 · a year ago

Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?

soGeneri · a year ago

This can be extended to include what you’re talking about. Do you have a list in mind?

pknerd · a year ago

nope

sweetdreamerit · a year ago

It's called UX Research.

mxuribe · a year ago

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. ;-)

lakshikag · a year ago

Would love to have itslaunched.com added as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712666

soGeneri · a year ago

Will check it out!

that_guy_iain · a year ago

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.

pentagrama · a year ago

> 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

soGeneri · a year ago

Sad to hear, I used to visit frequently. Will remove, thanks

haidrali · a year ago

Thank you! I will be using it for my project InvitePlus (https://getinviteplus.com)

pplonski86 · a year ago

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.