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Show HN: A set of standard document templates
A collection of common templates and documents I have been using over the years. I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them, so I just gathered them all here.
I would love to hear yours and add them to the list.
The list:
- Pitch
- Vision
- Strategy
- Product Requirements
- Technical Design
- Product Opportunity Assessment
- Product Vision
- Run Book
https://github.com/kbariotis/templates https://github.com/kbariotis/templates
- kostarelo 7y agoClickable link: https://github.com/kbariotis/templates https://github.com/kbariotis/templates
- jstummbillig 7y agoHow do you know me so well
- acidburnNSA 7y agoI particularly like the links to the basis of each template in the various sections.
- madc 7y agoThis could grow into an awesome-document-templates list..
- blondin 7y agoi actually wrote that down as side project idea yesterday! glad to see someone doing it. i have a different set of documents in mind though. my list is more developer oriented. here's the kind i wanted: - project readme (from simple to very involved) - pull requests - open source licenses (i think GitHub does this right?) - code of conduct - code testing template - benchmarks i also bookmarked these links: https://embeddedartistry.com/templates https://embeddedartistry.com/templates https://www.sans.org/security-resources/policies https://www.sans.org/security-resources/policies (this one is an old one i had not sure how i even stumble upon it...)
- kostarelo 7y agoThank you, I can totally see them fit in this repo. If you have specific content for any of these, please feel free to file a PR. :)
- samstave 7y agoFor whatever reason, my brain immediately pictured the Code of Conduct written in BASIC: 10 RESPECT OTHERS 20 BE CIVIL 20 RESPECT COMPANY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 30 GOTO 10
- lucasverra 7y agopitch deck : https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/
- kostarelo 7y agoNice one, could probably convert it to a Markdown format as well.
- lucasverra 7y agoroadmaps : https://usefyi.com/templates/roadmap-templates/ https://usefyi.com/templates/roadmap-templates/
- F_J_H 7y agoCan anyone comment on Coda? First time I've seen it - looks pretty cool.
- anotheryou 7y agoMuch of it would work as a nested list. (org-mode user here :))
- Hackbraten 7y agoExpected Word documents. Relieved when I saw it’s Markdown. HN will be HN. Thank you for that!
- ozofsound 7y ago>I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them This is cool, but how many times in ones life does one need these?
- kostarelo 7y agoYeah definitely not every week, but it's nice to have a single reference to go to the moment that you need them.
- 0xff00ffee 7y agoYou know, this is a great idea. I've been writing slide decks since the late 80's and having a template to think about the problem first is really useful. Can't believe this never occurred to me. Thanks! I just pulled down your tech_design template and I'm going to use it this week. [Abe Simpson Story: in the 80s/90s "Slide Decks" were called "Foils" because they were printed (by the print center) on transparencies and shown on overhead projectors.]
- 213322 7y agohi
- 213322 7y agoyui
- chrisseaton 7y ago> were called "Foils" because they were printed (by the print center) on transparencies and shown on overhead projectors. How does that explain them being called ‘foils’? I think you missed some part of the explanation?
- frant-hartm 7y agoBecause the slides are made from foil? Or at least they look like the are?
- IanCal 7y agoPerhaps it's a language thing, to me "foil" without a qualifier means exclusively aluminium foil. I'd never have called ohp acetate "foil".
- CharlesW 7y agoI know them as "transparencies", but according to this "foils" was also common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(projection) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(projection)
- rococode 7y agoThis is very cool! Would love to see a set of template legal documents on there too someday, something like Basecamp's https://github.com/basecamp/policies https://github.com/basecamp/policies
- oth001 7y agoThank you for putting this together. I'm wondering if you were to use these, what the order of operations for a product would be? Maybe Product Opportunity Assessment > Product Vision > Product Requirements?
- taherchhabra 7y agoI created this template using steve blank's book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f8pRkNiRiG7FWYJRaylVSyoRfAXgUVEr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f8pRkNiRiG7FWYJRaylVSyoRfAX...
- nicwest 7y ago- Post-mortem - Incident report - Scheduled down time
- cameronshorter 7y agoHi Kostas, Great idea to pull this together. A bunch of us tech writers have had a similar idea, and have banded together to create the key standard templates for tech projects - focusing initially on the core open-source documents required. Still early days for us, but we have put an alpha 0.1 release out. Are you, or anyone else reading, interested in getting involved. https://thegooddocsproject.dev/ https://thegooddocsproject.dev/ If interested, you can reach me at cameron D O T shorter AT gm ail . com