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Show HN: My first web app - HakingPot
- notJim 14y agoThis looks cool, but it was hard for me to figure out what it is. Hacking is an overloaded term, so I started off searching for things like MongoDB. Maybe on the homepage you could put some examples to provide context. Just curious, where do you source your recipes from? Edit hah it looks like they're from MakeZine. This is a cool idea, best of luck with it.
- rhizome31 14y agoSo, what does it do? What kind of search term did you enter?
- biot 14y agoI typed in 'pot' and didn't find anything consumable.
- gcmartinelli 14y agoLOL right now only electronic projects from Make:Projects :)
- brunohq 14y agotry something like arduino.
- notJim 14y agoI was trying to type in PHP, but it got autocorrected to pho, which I guess is a partial string match for phone, so I got a bunch of phone hacking things. This is how I figured out that it's about hardware hacking.
- rcknight 14y agoI had the same problem, immediately typed things like node.js ... eventually got the idea by searching arduino. Definitely would be nice to give some example search terms.
- gee_totes 14y agoI had the same problem with context as well. The first thing I searched for was 'onions', as I thought it was a food recipe website.
- sskelton90 14y agoTwo points from my very quick experience with the app: 1. You've spelled Haking/Hacking inconsistently between your logo and the title bar. 2. If the user performs a search with no search terms the server returns a 500 error.
- gcmartinelli 14y agoI corrected the title and will work on the 500 error! thank you all for the feedback!
- irunbackwards 14y agoBlank search results in a 500 error.
- gcmartinelli 14y agoI'm working on that! If anyone would like to help out, code is posted at github.com/gcmartinelli
- SkyMarshal 14y agoVery cool, where do you get the recipes in your search results?
- gcmartinelli 14y agoThanks! I get them from Make:Projects. Right now, only electronic projects are indexed
- mhartl 14y agoThe name of the app is misspelled in the headline.