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Ask HN: Is there a place to post and get feedback on new open source libraries?
I'm in the process of taking a tonne of code I've written for various reasons and wrapping it up, documenting it and popping it on Github and I wondered if there there was a web community of people who have done this?
It would be great to get some feedback on:
* The problem being solved
* Reaching a community of users
* Maintaining the work I've done
Here's the latest one for example: https://github.com/jasper-lyons/viewer
I guess ruby forums / communities would make the most sense for this. I'm just hoping for a centralized community!
- brudgers 9y agoMy take is to focus on polishing and promoting the single best project...where 'best' is defined by potential users. People are more likely to care about one pearl than a tonne of oyster shell.
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoI would love to do that! It's finding those initial users that I'm not sure of how to approach.
- brudgers 9y agoI guess the first step is to make a decision about which projects are the best. Then a decision about which project is the best and focus on that one. Good open source projects are not less work than good commercial projects. A project is a project. Open source may even be harder because price signals value.
- vvoyer 9y agoI had a look at your latest viewer project, but I missed the high level problem this is solving. i.e. what is the real world use case you had that made you invent this library. Reading "This allows you to go back in time and render values you'll calculate later into your templates." did not help me understand the use case. By providing the real world use case, you'll have people that can relate their own use cases. Thanks!