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Show HN: Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN
- scastiel 6y agoHi, Sebastien here, maker of this small webapp! I created it to find information about people who posted projects here on Show HN, to find their Twitter and GitHub accounts, etc. I needed it for another project, so hopefully it will be useful to other people as well :) Oh and it is open source, you can find the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/scastiel/showhn-projects https://github.com/scastiel/showhn-projects
- huhtenberg 6y agoPerhaps rearrange account tags so that the HN acc info comes last. Every entry on your list has it, so it will arrange itself into a column across all entries. Edit #1 - in fact, I'd drop media/github account names and format the account info in a table. [icon count] [icon count] [icon count]. If there's no, say, Twitter account, then show [icon -], both in gray. This will make the info easier to scan and digest. Edit #2 - in the Filters popup, if I understand it correctly, one is expected to click on the label to enable a filter. I'd add at least an ":hover" state to labels then, because right now they do not look actionable at all. Also the popup jerks left-right when toggling the first filter. It's a minor thing, but still a bit annoying.
- scastiel 6y agoGood point!
- alexkearns 6y agoI think Hacker News needs to do more to highlight Show HNs. Lots of them just disappear without trace and with no-one commenting on them. So I like what you have done. It brings some much-needed attention to Show HN.
- scastiel 6y agoI agree! Exactly the reason why I developed this tool; Show HN is my favorite HN section ;)
- yitchelle 6y agoYou guys know about https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show, right?
- dewey 6y agoIt's linked in the tagline of OP's tool, so I guess they are aware of it. The benefit seems to be that it's decorated with some additional information like Github and Twitter accounts.
- alexkearns 6y agoI have run a little experiment. Published a Show HN. In the last 30 minutes, I have had around 37 visits via your app. And zero via Hacker News' Show HN page.
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- modeless 6y agoMy Show HN projects aren't there. I'm not sure they ever appeared on https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show either. The HN FAQ says that all you have to do is prefix the title with Show HN but I think there's a bug that prevents some Show HN stories from being detected.
- dang 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037167 certainly would have. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559444 might not have. All Show HNs go to /shownew, but there's a small points threshold before they make it to /show. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
- modeless 6y agoAh, I didn't know about the points threshold, thanks!
- monkeydust 6y agoLike the concept. I would like to see - github stars - Email me option. Say once a week top 50 projects, sorted by points / github stars
- avel 6y agoGreat ideas. I would sign up for the newsletter in a heartbeat. I subscribe to many newsletters by Cooperpress (Javascript Weekly etc) and the weekly "best of js" rankings, and this would be a great complement to them.
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- glaucon 6y agoGood work, thanks. I feel bad saying "why don't you" when I'm not willing to PR it myself but ... it would be really good if each "Show" had a permalink so you could send a link to someone and be sure they would find it (within https://showhn-dashboard.netlify.app/ https://showhn-dashboard.netlify.app/). Thanks again.