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Show HN: 2ndWind - Find people to work on your unfinished projects

22 points by trowa159 7y ago

imglorp 7y ago
Login Warning Please login to see the content. Hell no.
- rwolf 7y ago
  To elaborate of the commenter above, here's what I tried to try to get some information about this site: * Looked at the top and bottom nav for a link to something like a blog or an about page. * Searching for [2ndwind] brings up tons of athletics links. * Tried visiting both /about and /blog to see if there was more content, just hidden. The poster including more information about the site than is in the real <title> makes it seem like they know more. If you do: please summarize what this page is.
  - trowa159 7y ago
    Thanks for pointing that out, The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project. You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not. If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project. Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about
    - imglorp 7y ago
      (I'm the hell no commenter). I probably should have stated that more kindly. I love the idea and I love that you've brought it here for comment. The "hell no" comment comes from experiencing the dark pattern of requiring an email before the user can determine if there's any value. This pattern has been abused time and again, and many people will just leave without learning what it's about before giving out an email for another marketing push. I did, and maybe all the upvoters of that comment also. Even if the privacy terms are "no mail ever", that doesn't mean the DB won't be hacked or stolen some day, or the company simply sold and the DB harvested. Who knows. It's been spoiled by everyone before. My suggestion is open it up so people can read all the project details. Perhaps require a signup only if the user wants to contact a poster. And consider not using email at all.
      - trowa159 7y ago
        yeah, the latest update would allow you to check out the project detail but requires you to signup if you want to participate. There is also an about page. ;)
esnard 7y ago
I find it hard to understand what this site is about for someone who hasn't read the HN submission title.
- trowa159 7y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out, The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project. You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not. If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project. Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about
fiatjaf 7y ago
I would love if this kind of thing existed, because I have many unfinished projects I would like someone to finish for me. However for now I can't even drag myself to fill the form, because I have absolutely zero hope of getting someone interested in working on my things. Classic chicken-and-egg.
- trowa159 7y ago
  don't give up brother. post your projects with details, you never know who is going to join ;)
  - fiatjaf 7y ago
    I'm not your brother.
pettycashstash2 7y ago
an app by John Kuo, angular JS, boostrap, domain registered in Panama, hosted on AWS. yeah, no thanks in terms of registering. interesting idea though, but needs refining
- priansh 7y ago
  > with no privacy policy or terms, no logout, and no method of deleting your data or contacting the company
  - trowa159 7y ago
    thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.
vortico 7y ago
Why would any sane person pick up one of these projects? If a project isn't good enough for the original developer to continue working on it, it sure isn't good enough for anyone else to. Early/unfinished projects have a ton of design cruft and technical debt that another human would have approached a different way if starting from scratch.
priansh 7y ago
The interface is a little confusing and I've got a load of questions: - Firstly, what's the privacy/security on this site? The Privacy Policy and Terms both go nowhere and I can't find any info on this online. Looking at the source, I see it's being loaded from "/Users/johnkuo/Documents/playground/2ndwind/," so is this a reverse proxy and everything I do goes straight to your computer? Also, I can't seem to logout or delete my information in any way. - What's the difference between "Home" and "Feed"? I'm assuming Feed does something different but it leads to the same page, and there's also a notifications button but I'm confused as to how that ties in. - What does the "Purchase" button mean? Clicking on it says it's not finished and asks for a vote on it but I'm confused as to what the feature entails to begin with. Is this for selling off a side project? - What sort of projects are welcome here? I see something about a backyard job although I took unfinished projects as something more technical. - If I post or participate on a project, how does communication occur to actually onboard me onto the project? I tried clicking participate but going to my participation tab still doesn't show anything here.
- trowa159 7y ago
  thanks for the questions - the links for privacy and terms are missing. We will contact the dev to look into this. so is the folder in the project. - The home should be your projects and the feed is where other users posted their projects - All unfinished projects. it can be your garage project, business project or house building project. - After you click on participate, the project owner needs to approve you in order to chat with you about the project.
damvigilante 7y ago
The site itself is one of those unfinished projects.
- plodman 7y ago
  Agreed. It’s a wholly bootstrap site with unfinished elements, poorly laid out columns (on mobile at least), stretched images and requires a login for any action that isn’t the front page. Oh and the content overlaps the footer. I think this should have been cleaned up a little before touting it on HN.

22 points by trowa159 7y ago

imglorp 7y ago

rwolf 7y ago
To elaborate of the commenter above, here's what I tried to try to get some information about this site: * Looked at the top and bottom nav for a link to something like a blog or an about page. * Searching for [2ndwind] brings up tons of athletics links. * Tried visiting both /about and /blog to see if there was more content, just hidden. The poster including more information about the site than is in the real <title> makes it seem like they know more. If you do: please summarize what this page is.
- trowa159 7y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out, The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project. You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not. If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project. Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about
  - imglorp 7y ago
    (I'm the hell no commenter). I probably should have stated that more kindly. I love the idea and I love that you've brought it here for comment. The "hell no" comment comes from experiencing the dark pattern of requiring an email before the user can determine if there's any value. This pattern has been abused time and again, and many people will just leave without learning what it's about before giving out an email for another marketing push. I did, and maybe all the upvoters of that comment also. Even if the privacy terms are "no mail ever", that doesn't mean the DB won't be hacked or stolen some day, or the company simply sold and the DB harvested. Who knows. It's been spoiled by everyone before. My suggestion is open it up so people can read all the project details. Perhaps require a signup only if the user wants to contact a poster. And consider not using email at all.
    - trowa159 7y ago
      yeah, the latest update would allow you to check out the project detail but requires you to signup if you want to participate. There is also an about page. ;)

esnard 7y ago

I find it hard to understand what this site is about for someone who hasn't read the HN submission title.

trowa159 7y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project. You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not. If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project. Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about

fiatjaf 7y ago

I would love if this kind of thing existed, because I have many unfinished projects I would like someone to finish for me. However for now I can't even drag myself to fill the form, because I have absolutely zero hope of getting someone interested in working on my things. Classic chicken-and-egg.

trowa159 7y ago
don't give up brother. post your projects with details, you never know who is going to join ;)
- fiatjaf 7y ago
  I'm not your brother.

pettycashstash2 7y ago

an app by John Kuo, angular JS, boostrap, domain registered in Panama, hosted on AWS. yeah, no thanks in terms of registering. interesting idea though, but needs refining

priansh 7y ago
> with no privacy policy or terms, no logout, and no method of deleting your data or contacting the company
- trowa159 7y ago
  thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.

vortico 7y ago

Why would any sane person pick up one of these projects? If a project isn't good enough for the original developer to continue working on it, it sure isn't good enough for anyone else to. Early/unfinished projects have a ton of design cruft and technical debt that another human would have approached a different way if starting from scratch.

priansh 7y ago

The interface is a little confusing and I've got a load of questions: - Firstly, what's the privacy/security on this site? The Privacy Policy and Terms both go nowhere and I can't find any info on this online. Looking at the source, I see it's being loaded from "/Users/johnkuo/Documents/playground/2ndwind/," so is this a reverse proxy and everything I do goes straight to your computer? Also, I can't seem to logout or delete my information in any way. - What's the difference between "Home" and "Feed"? I'm assuming Feed does something different but it leads to the same page, and there's also a notifications button but I'm confused as to how that ties in. - What does the "Purchase" button mean? Clicking on it says it's not finished and asks for a vote on it but I'm confused as to what the feature entails to begin with. Is this for selling off a side project? - What sort of projects are welcome here? I see something about a backyard job although I took unfinished projects as something more technical. - If I post or participate on a project, how does communication occur to actually onboard me onto the project? I tried clicking participate but going to my participation tab still doesn't show anything here.

trowa159 7y ago
thanks for the questions - the links for privacy and terms are missing. We will contact the dev to look into this. so is the folder in the project. - The home should be your projects and the feed is where other users posted their projects - All unfinished projects. it can be your garage project, business project or house building project. - After you click on participate, the project owner needs to approve you in order to chat with you about the project.

damvigilante 7y ago

The site itself is one of those unfinished projects.

plodman 7y ago
Agreed. It’s a wholly bootstrap site with unfinished elements, poorly laid out columns (on mobile at least), stretched images and requires a login for any action that isn’t the front page. Oh and the content overlaps the footer. I think this should have been cleaned up a little before touting it on HN.