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Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers

342 points by bradleyjoyce 16y ago

jat850 16y ago
Offtopic and I'll eat the downvotes accordingly: Submitter, your link in your profile appears to be broken. I attended school with someone sharing your name (doubtful it's actually you) and was going to look up your profile. Just a heads up.
- bradleyjoyce 16y ago
  ah thanks for the tip.. did some domain shuffling recently and I've neglected to forward that one on.. http://bradleyjoyce.com http://bradleyjoyce.com should work :-) Thanks!
calloc 16y ago
In case you don't want the offers on your homepage, please use the link that pg created specifically for that reason in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/offerless http://news.ycombinator.com/offerless
- RexRollman 16y ago
  Thanks. I really, really dislike the offers showing up by default, but at least this gives me a way out of seeing them.
VBprogrammer 16y ago
Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.
- idoh 16y ago
  At least it needs to be added to: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
  - jackowayed 16y ago
    /offers (and /offerless) aren't permanent yet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988
    - idoh 16y ago
      Thanks, that makes sense. In fairness pg could also paste it into the server invocation too though.
      - roryokane 16y ago
        For the benefit of those who, like me, had trouble understanding the parent comment: by “it”, idoh means “code to add /offers to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists” http://news.ycombinator.com/lists”.
- charlief 16y ago
  An alternative not mutually exclusive: Mixing Shows, Tells, Asks, Offers together into one page * I doubt offers will be as plentiful as Show, Tell, Ask. * Offers also expire where Show, Tell and Ask are relevant for a longer periods of time. Mixing Asks, Tells, Shows, and Offers + others together allow irrelevant or aging submissions to slide, making a more useful "offers page". It makes offers compete in some sort of page ranking, instead of a usually unchanging page. * If I want to see a recent, hot Offer, I'll see it on the top page. If I want to see medium-aged offers, by mixing them in with asks, I'll see other interesting content as well. It is a more useful offers page. Making a separate offers page will have me polling a page that doesn't change usually. * If I want to see very old offers, I'll use searchyc, google, or check jacques' blog. Chances are I won't be doing this that often because very old offers will be expired. edit: totally implemented, probably before I posted even a long time ago In that case, with an offers list on the next invocation and a very functional asks link, I don't think an extra link on the bar is necessary
- Huppie 16y ago
  pg said it's currently just added in the REPL, so until the next server reboot it'll be at /offers [0]. Just as with /ask it'll probably stay if 'Offer HN' stays a busy list. 0: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062
yatsyk 16y ago
I planned to add similar list to just released HNResources (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840164 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840164) Now I'll just add links to offers and offerless lists. One issue I didn't know how to fix is that most offers is limited in time and better to be removed. Are these lists are cleared or old offers just shifted down?
baguasquirrel 16y ago
Serious question... how do you post to these sort of things? Do you just start your subject line with "Offer HN:"?
- mkuhn 16y ago
  Yes, that is exactly the way to do it.
- deleted 16y ago
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- paulbaumgart 16y ago
  Any post that starts with "Offer " gets included in the list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839808 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839808
- templaedhel 16y ago
  Ask HN currently shows anything with a description, not a link.
danramteke 16y ago
Hmm. http://news.ycombinator.com/asks http://news.ycombinator.com/asks and http://news.ycombinator.com/tells http://news.ycombinator.com/tells don't seem to point to anything. Might go along well with http://news.ycombinator.com/offers http://news.ycombinator.com/offers
- benjoffe 16y ago
  Good point there, it is a little inconsistent, since this was just launched it should be safe to rename it from 'offers' to 'offer', and perhaps set up a 301 redirect so existing links aren't broken.
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colinprince 16y ago
Flagged as spam ^_^
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SteveMorin 16y ago
I think this will be a good addition for a lot of people.
asimjalis 16y ago
How do I make my offer appear here? I just posted an offer at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843501 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843501 but I don't see it on http://news.ycombinator.com/offers http://news.ycombinator.com/offers

342 points by bradleyjoyce 16y ago

Offtopic and I'll eat the downvotes accordingly: Submitter, your link in your profile appears to be broken. I attended school with someone sharing your name (doubtful it's actually you) and was going to look up your profile. Just a heads up.

bradleyjoyce 16y ago
ah thanks for the tip.. did some domain shuffling recently and I've neglected to forward that one on.. http://bradleyjoyce.com http://bradleyjoyce.com should work :-) Thanks!

calloc 16y ago

In case you don't want the offers on your homepage, please use the link that pg created specifically for that reason in the other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/offerless http://news.ycombinator.com/offerless

RexRollman 16y ago
Thanks. I really, really dislike the offers showing up by default, but at least this gives me a way out of seeing them.

VBprogrammer 16y ago

Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.

idoh 16y ago
At least it needs to be added to: http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- jackowayed 16y ago
  /offers (and /offerless) aren't permanent yet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839988
  - idoh 16y ago
    Thanks, that makes sense. In fairness pg could also paste it into the server invocation too though.
    - roryokane 16y ago
      For the benefit of those who, like me, had trouble understanding the parent comment: by “it”, idoh means “code to add /offers to http://news.ycombinator.com/lists” http://news.ycombinator.com/lists”.
charlief 16y ago
An alternative not mutually exclusive: Mixing Shows, Tells, Asks, Offers together into one page * I doubt offers will be as plentiful as Show, Tell, Ask. * Offers also expire where Show, Tell and Ask are relevant for a longer periods of time. Mixing Asks, Tells, Shows, and Offers + others together allow irrelevant or aging submissions to slide, making a more useful "offers page". It makes offers compete in some sort of page ranking, instead of a usually unchanging page. * If I want to see a recent, hot Offer, I'll see it on the top page. If I want to see medium-aged offers, by mixing them in with asks, I'll see other interesting content as well. It is a more useful offers page. Making a separate offers page will have me polling a page that doesn't change usually. * If I want to see very old offers, I'll use searchyc, google, or check jacques' blog. Chances are I won't be doing this that often because very old offers will be expired. edit: totally implemented, probably before I posted even a long time ago In that case, with an offers list on the next invocation and a very functional asks link, I don't think an extra link on the bar is necessary
Huppie 16y ago
pg said it's currently just added in the REPL, so until the next server reboot it'll be at /offers [0]. Just as with /ask it'll probably stay if 'Offer HN' stays a busy list. 0: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1840062

yatsyk 16y ago

I planned to add similar list to just released HNResources (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840164 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840164) Now I'll just add links to offers and offerless lists. One issue I didn't know how to fix is that most offers is limited in time and better to be removed. Are these lists are cleared or old offers just shifted down?

baguasquirrel 16y ago

Serious question... how do you post to these sort of things? Do you just start your subject line with "Offer HN:"?

mkuhn 16y ago
Yes, that is exactly the way to do it.
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paulbaumgart 16y ago
Any post that starts with "Offer " gets included in the list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839808 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839808
templaedhel 16y ago
Ask HN currently shows anything with a description, not a link.

danramteke 16y ago

Hmm. http://news.ycombinator.com/asks http://news.ycombinator.com/asks and http://news.ycombinator.com/tells http://news.ycombinator.com/tells don't seem to point to anything. Might go along well with http://news.ycombinator.com/offers http://news.ycombinator.com/offers

benjoffe 16y ago
Good point there, it is a little inconsistent, since this was just launched it should be safe to rename it from 'offers' to 'offer', and perhaps set up a 301 redirect so existing links aren't broken.

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colinprince 16y ago

Flagged as spam ^_^

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SteveMorin 16y ago

I think this will be a good addition for a lot of people.

asimjalis 16y ago

How do I make my offer appear here? I just posted an offer at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843501 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843501 but I don't see it on http://news.ycombinator.com/offers http://news.ycombinator.com/offers