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A better alternative to the Heroku add-ons listing
- mfourcade 15y agoLove it! Reviews of my peers are great inputs to validate my interest with add-ons!
- karl_freeman 15y agoIts not looking too swell my end http://cl.ly/FRWh http://cl.ly/FRWh
- dbinsights 15y agoSorry about that, seems like I'm having heroku/rails asset pipeline issues. Sure doesn't help get my point across.
- jsavimbi 15y agoWhy don't you add a thanks to Heroku for hosting their images for you?
- raphinou 15y agoAre these all official heroku add-ons? I didn't find a way to suggest an addition to the list. So here it is: http://wekkars.com http://wekkars.com Not really an heroku addition, but a service to keep your website responsive. (disclaimer: I'm involved in Wekkars)
- namidark 15y agoYou really only need that on the free tier, when 2+ web workers are used 1 at least is always kept around to respond quickly.
- neilmiddleton 15y agoAll I want is a simple single column list of addons. For instance, the official page has a weird two column thing going on which makes it hard to parse mentally when you're quickly trying to find a specific add-on. This new attempt doesn't seem to fix my biggest gripe with the whole system (and in the grand scale of things, that's a pretty small gripe)
- namidark 15y agoAwesome concept, love the ratings and comments, hopefully they can make something like this happen on their end
- jsavimbi 15y agoNice try, but you've only copied their design, removed the polish and added a bunch of unnecessary bollocks to the thing. Also, people need to read the content, hence their visit to the site. If you're going to insist on using a dark background, at least make the text as bright as possible and remove the text shadow.
- namidark 15y agoIt looks fine to me and is as readable as the text on heroku itself
- jsavimbi 15y ago> as readable as the text on heroku Not exactly a paragon a legibility. If you're going to pick a dark background, choose a color for the text that will actually contrast and be legible for the widest audience possible, not a shadowed, slightly lighter version of the background. In essence, this "alternative" does absolutely nothing to improve upon Heroku's version. It's also worse.
- dbinsights 15y agoMy point has nothing to do with background color and legibility ; the design is an unmodified Bootswatch theme (http://bootswatch.com/ http://bootswatch.com/). The point is about features ; the current listing on Heroku contains 78 addons. You have to read each name and short description to possibly find what you are looking for and once you have found the 2 or 3 matching options you have no way to know what people think of them. Hence search, tags, reviews and ratings which is the point of this little project.
- jsavimbi 15y ago> My point has nothing to do with background color and legibility If you build something that people can't use, you've wasted your time. That search box on the left is useless unless someone a) understands how Heroku works and b) knows what they're looking for in the first place. Reviews? Ratings? I guess they work for Hotscripts. Heroku add-ons are for people who already understand the architecture of their app, not necessarily some guy looking to add something on for the sake of it, hence the obvious pricing. You have to know the audience.