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I have similar struggles. So far, HN has been the best non-work community for developing my ideas. My strategy is to find a post like "SQLite 3.39.2" where I

I have similar struggles. So far, HN has been the best non-work community for developing my ideas. My strategy is to find a post like "SQLite 3.39.2" where I will make a comment about how I use that technology and then get into some nuance regarding certain concerns in an indirect manner. Inevitably, someone will gently correct me or provide some alternatives I might not have considered yet. I have done a fair # of "design reviews" using HN in this manner. I don't think any of this goes against the rules or spirit of the community. Others seem to benefit from reading and participating in the same conversations. Maybe we need a more long-form aspect to HN where these sorts of conversations would be easier to have?

akiselev 4y ago
> I don't think any of this goes against the rules or spirit of the community. Others seem to benefit from reading and participating in the same conversations. It's absolutely in the spirit of HN and those kinds of conversations are _the most_ [1] valuable out of anything in this community. When researching a new piece of infrastructure or SaaS or even book topic one of my first search queries is "site:ycombinator.com [x]" I literally searched "site:ycombinator.com sqlite" just yesterday and discovered rqlite, dqlite, litestream, and so on. Repeated the search with each of the keywords and got tons of discussion comparing the tradeoffs, helping me identify solutions for several stalled projects with barely a look at the home pages. I was done with research and implemented the most immediate need within a few hours thanks to HN commentary. This would just be the start of the due diligence for something I'd use at work but (especially) for low risk personal projects it has saved me untold amounts of time and effort by shortcutting the discovery process altogether. [1] citation for extra emphasis
- otoolep 4y ago
  rqlite creator here, happy to answer any questions about it.

akiselev 4y ago

> I don't think any of this goes against the rules or spirit of the community. Others seem to benefit from reading and participating in the same conversations. It's absolutely in the spirit of HN and those kinds of conversations are _the most_ [1] valuable out of anything in this community. When researching a new piece of infrastructure or SaaS or even book topic one of my first search queries is "site:ycombinator.com [x]" I literally searched "site:ycombinator.com sqlite" just yesterday and discovered rqlite, dqlite, litestream, and so on. Repeated the search with each of the keywords and got tons of discussion comparing the tradeoffs, helping me identify solutions for several stalled projects with barely a look at the home pages. I was done with research and implemented the most immediate need within a few hours thanks to HN commentary. This would just be the start of the due diligence for something I'd use at work but (especially) for low risk personal projects it has saved me untold amounts of time and effort by shortcutting the discovery process altogether. [1] citation for extra emphasis

otoolep 4y ago
rqlite creator here, happy to answer any questions about it.