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Show HN: LearnSearch, Built with Firebase's New Firestore DB and VueJS

5 points by hsikka 9y ago

hsikka 9y ago
Hey folks! I just spent the past two days building LearnSearch, a web app where you can share learning resources and upvote the ones that help you or are valuable in someway. I asked a lot of people what they wished they knew when they started self teaching or learning something new, and the feedback was always that they wish they could tell the good resources from the ones that lead them astray, and that others were vital in letting them know about this. I wanted to make this same interaction scaleable, so I built LearnSearch! LearnSearch is still in its early, early infancy, and I'm going to continue to build out different feeds, comments, and other cool features. I'd love for you guys to take a look and let me know what you think! I haven't slept all night, so gonna take a quick snooze ;)
- itcmcgrath 9y ago
  Nice! Will you be adding something like a categories tag? Any initial feedback on using Cloud Firestore you'd want to share? [Good | Bad]
  - hsikka 9y ago
    Oh yeah, I'm going to be adding a lot, I really just wanted to get something out there to stay motivated and get people's feedback. I'm actually probably going to add a roadmap or feature suggestion component soon. It's my first time building something like this, so I'm pretty new to managing user interest LOL Dude, Firestore is pretty sweet. It can be opened with a realtime connection, and works just like Mongo. The only thing is that the way the queries are handled is a little weird, and they don't necessarily return static data. The query options may return some methods that you have to call, and really read the documentation in order to wrap your head around how to grab what you thought should have been a simple JSON object. That being said, it is in Beta, so I knew there would be documentation issues going in. I think it will be a fantastic tool going forward, and its worth building something small on it to play around with right now. TLDR: [GOOD], but needs some improvements Thanks for your feedback by the way, I really appreciate it :)
panta 9y ago
Nice idea! Seeing that you mention the technology stack, is the product open source? Also, what's the privacy policy (for example for the email addresses collected)?
- hsikka 9y ago
  Hey! Thank you, I really just wanted to get a super minimal version up so I can hack on it and build something people want, its not open source yet, but I'm thinking about open sourcing it. The only user data being collected is the emails, as part of Firebase's innate auth system. They won't be used for any other purpose and are completely siloed from each other. Honestly this is my first time building anything really, so these are all considerations I'm going to have to make, and I'd love any pointers you could give me!
  - panta 9y ago
    Super! Launching it minimal was the right thing to do imho. Congrats for the launch and keep us posted! As a side note, I'm a big fan of vue and I am looking into using firebase in the future too. Which component/style framework did you use? Bulma/vuetify/quasar/hand-made?
    - panta 9y ago
      just a quick "bug" report: in the link submission form, the placeholders don't get selected/erased when you start typing.
      - hsikka 9y ago
        thanks panta! I'll fix that asap. By the way, I used Vuetify, its clean and sharp, and was easy to drop into the project
        panta 9y ago
        I'm using it too for my current projects. Was a bit undecided between vuetify and quasar though.
assafmo 9y ago
Very cool! Congrats on delivering! Firestore sounds cool, I might have to give it a try too. ️
- hsikka 9y ago
  Thank you! It was really heartening to build something and get it out to people, my first time doing something like this. Firestore is very cool, worth looking at. Be wary of the query syntax, though, can be weird at first

5 points by hsikka 9y ago

Hey folks! I just spent the past two days building LearnSearch, a web app where you can share learning resources and upvote the ones that help you or are valuable in someway. I asked a lot of people what they wished they knew when they started self teaching or learning something new, and the feedback was always that they wish they could tell the good resources from the ones that lead them astray, and that others were vital in letting them know about this. I wanted to make this same interaction scaleable, so I built LearnSearch! LearnSearch is still in its early, early infancy, and I'm going to continue to build out different feeds, comments, and other cool features. I'd love for you guys to take a look and let me know what you think! I haven't slept all night, so gonna take a quick snooze ;)

itcmcgrath 9y ago
Nice! Will you be adding something like a categories tag? Any initial feedback on using Cloud Firestore you'd want to share? [Good | Bad]
- hsikka 9y ago
  Oh yeah, I'm going to be adding a lot, I really just wanted to get something out there to stay motivated and get people's feedback. I'm actually probably going to add a roadmap or feature suggestion component soon. It's my first time building something like this, so I'm pretty new to managing user interest LOL Dude, Firestore is pretty sweet. It can be opened with a realtime connection, and works just like Mongo. The only thing is that the way the queries are handled is a little weird, and they don't necessarily return static data. The query options may return some methods that you have to call, and really read the documentation in order to wrap your head around how to grab what you thought should have been a simple JSON object. That being said, it is in Beta, so I knew there would be documentation issues going in. I think it will be a fantastic tool going forward, and its worth building something small on it to play around with right now. TLDR: [GOOD], but needs some improvements Thanks for your feedback by the way, I really appreciate it :)

panta 9y ago

Nice idea! Seeing that you mention the technology stack, is the product open source? Also, what's the privacy policy (for example for the email addresses collected)?

hsikka 9y ago
Hey! Thank you, I really just wanted to get a super minimal version up so I can hack on it and build something people want, its not open source yet, but I'm thinking about open sourcing it. The only user data being collected is the emails, as part of Firebase's innate auth system. They won't be used for any other purpose and are completely siloed from each other. Honestly this is my first time building anything really, so these are all considerations I'm going to have to make, and I'd love any pointers you could give me!
- panta 9y ago
  Super! Launching it minimal was the right thing to do imho. Congrats for the launch and keep us posted! As a side note, I'm a big fan of vue and I am looking into using firebase in the future too. Which component/style framework did you use? Bulma/vuetify/quasar/hand-made?
  - panta 9y ago
    just a quick "bug" report: in the link submission form, the placeholders don't get selected/erased when you start typing.
    - hsikka 9y ago
      thanks panta! I'll fix that asap. By the way, I used Vuetify, its clean and sharp, and was easy to drop into the project
      - panta 9y ago
        I'm using it too for my current projects. Was a bit undecided between vuetify and quasar though.

assafmo 9y ago

Very cool! Congrats on delivering! Firestore sounds cool, I might have to give it a try too. ️

hsikka 9y ago
Thank you! It was really heartening to build something and get it out to people, my first time doing something like this. Firestore is very cool, worth looking at. Be wary of the query syntax, though, can be weird at first