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Show HN: Coder Weekly

62 points by motter 15y ago

niels_bom 15y ago
I'd love an RSS feed.
- dnlk 15y ago
  http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44447e8&id=3b843cbb69 http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f4... seems to be their archive providing this RSS link: http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44447e8&id=3b843cbb69 http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44...
  - motter 15y ago
    For convenience I've created a feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoderWeeklyArchiveFeed http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoderWeeklyArchiveFeed
hello_moto 15y ago
So... exactly like Peter Cooper's js and ruby weekly eh.
- thehodge 15y ago
  Pretty much, there is a fine line between being inspired by and just plain cloning..
  - motter 15y ago
    Seems a little unfair. I'm subscribed to two weekly newsletters, both of which are excellent: http://www.pythonweekly.com/ http://www.pythonweekly.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ ...so I decided to create one to gather together the best, most detailed programming articles I could find, regardless of language or platform. I don't see how this could be called "cloning", though the format of a weekly newsletter is obviously nothing new.
    - petercooper 15y ago
      I think it's a good idea (hence http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/) and think there's more than enough room for multiple projects in this space, I'd already found several before I started on the SC project a few months ago. There are about 101 glossy celebrity magazines all competing with each other, 101 documentary TV channels, 101 radio stations.. I like to think that we're all just making the market bigger rather than dividing up some specific number of subscribers :-) What matters is our individual take and individual editorial direction, and that's very hard to copy. Good luck!
      - motter 15y ago
        Interesting, I had no idea that existed! Completely agreed on the different channels point -- it certainly seems like there's space for multiple players. Anyway, good luck with statuscode!
        petercooper 15y ago
        I have seen similar things play out in blogging, screencasts, and elsewhere. People are not doing X, then one person does X and does OK at it, but then more people turn up and the entire market blows up because the larger number of producers validates the idea in users' minds! :-) (All of the interactive "code learning" sites are a current demonstration of this phenomenon.)
        motter 15y ago
        Absolutely -- I'm trying to remember the name of the effect(s), but my searches have failed so far.
        petercooper 15y ago
        Coincidentally I was reading The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding this morning and the 'Law of Fellowship' in that book defines it to a tee! :-)
- rue 15y ago
  Not to detract from Peter's excellent service, but it's not like he invented the e-mail newsletter either.
- petercooper 15y ago
  More like http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/ really (whose launch was delayed to this week ;-)) But, no, I didn't really invent the idea and there's more than enough room for multiple players in this market. It's almost my full time job now so I have a strong interest in trying to be the best but there are lots of other frequent newsletters on similar topics that have been around 10+ years and have 100,000s of subscribers :-) That said, I appreciate the show of support nonetheless - thanks!
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wink 15y ago
The idea is hardly unique, what matters more is that you have to somehow agree to the choice of content presented by the author of the summary in question. I'm doing one of these myself for a few months, over at http://f5n.org/stack/ http://f5n.org/stack/ (and it consists at least 50% of HN content, so I didn't post it here as of yet.) As I've also written somewhere my inspirations were http://www.foldl.org/ http://www.foldl.org/ and http://chneukirchen.org/trivium http://chneukirchen.org/trivium - because there's stuff I like to see, I couldn't care less for weekly JS and Ruby links, for example, however rich in quality they would be :)

62 points by motter 15y ago

niels_bom 15y ago

I'd love an RSS feed.

dnlk 15y ago
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44447e8&id=3b843cbb69 http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f4... seems to be their archive providing this RSS link: http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44447e8&id=3b843cbb69 http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/feed?u=a2e40d31d41d5e395f44...
- motter 15y ago
  For convenience I've created a feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoderWeeklyArchiveFeed http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoderWeeklyArchiveFeed

hello_moto 15y ago

So... exactly like Peter Cooper's js and ruby weekly eh.

thehodge 15y ago
Pretty much, there is a fine line between being inspired by and just plain cloning..
- motter 15y ago
  Seems a little unfair. I'm subscribed to two weekly newsletters, both of which are excellent: http://www.pythonweekly.com/ http://www.pythonweekly.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ ...so I decided to create one to gather together the best, most detailed programming articles I could find, regardless of language or platform. I don't see how this could be called "cloning", though the format of a weekly newsletter is obviously nothing new.
  - petercooper 15y ago
    I think it's a good idea (hence http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/) and think there's more than enough room for multiple projects in this space, I'd already found several before I started on the SC project a few months ago. There are about 101 glossy celebrity magazines all competing with each other, 101 documentary TV channels, 101 radio stations.. I like to think that we're all just making the market bigger rather than dividing up some specific number of subscribers :-) What matters is our individual take and individual editorial direction, and that's very hard to copy. Good luck!
    - motter 15y ago
      Interesting, I had no idea that existed! Completely agreed on the different channels point -- it certainly seems like there's space for multiple players. Anyway, good luck with statuscode!
      - petercooper 15y ago
        I have seen similar things play out in blogging, screencasts, and elsewhere. People are not doing X, then one person does X and does OK at it, but then more people turn up and the entire market blows up because the larger number of producers validates the idea in users' minds! :-) (All of the interactive "code learning" sites are a current demonstration of this phenomenon.)
        motter 15y ago
        Absolutely -- I'm trying to remember the name of the effect(s), but my searches have failed so far.
        petercooper 15y ago
        Coincidentally I was reading The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding this morning and the 'Law of Fellowship' in that book defines it to a tee! :-)
rue 15y ago
Not to detract from Peter's excellent service, but it's not like he invented the e-mail newsletter either.
petercooper 15y ago
More like http://statuscode.org/ http://statuscode.org/ really (whose launch was delayed to this week ;-)) But, no, I didn't really invent the idea and there's more than enough room for multiple players in this market. It's almost my full time job now so I have a strong interest in trying to be the best but there are lots of other frequent newsletters on similar topics that have been around 10+ years and have 100,000s of subscribers :-) That said, I appreciate the show of support nonetheless - thanks!

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wink 15y ago

The idea is hardly unique, what matters more is that you have to somehow agree to the choice of content presented by the author of the summary in question. I'm doing one of these myself for a few months, over at http://f5n.org/stack/ http://f5n.org/stack/ (and it consists at least 50% of HN content, so I didn't post it here as of yet.) As I've also written somewhere my inspirations were http://www.foldl.org/ http://www.foldl.org/ and http://chneukirchen.org/trivium http://chneukirchen.org/trivium - because there's stuff I like to see, I couldn't care less for weekly JS and Ruby links, for example, however rich in quality they would be :)