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I think this is a great idea. I have always thought hacking and open source development could be more organized :-) This looks like a great first stab. Here a

I think this is a great idea. I have always thought hacking and open source development could be more organized :-) This looks like a great first stab. Here are some comments: On aesthetics: although I like the StackOverflow nod, I think the color scheme is a little too 'grey'. Background is grey, headers are grey, tags are grey, buttons are grey. Don't know if other HNers have the same sense. Specific improvements: - on the "Add Project" page, you could make the text fields a little bit bigger - rather than picking the # of hours you think it would take for 2-3 people, why don't you use the fibonacci-like sequence used in Story Point / Planning Poker estimation. E.g., it's a scale of complexity: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 25, 50 100. See planningpoker.com. You could also consider using a 'slider' here. - After I posted my clusterify project idea, I realized I had made a mistake in the Markdown. Can we get a preview feature? How about editing existing submissions? (I understand this is early stage :-)) - The mistake I made is that I thought that links that are on their own line should be linked automatically. I guess this isn't strict Markdown, but seems like a common enough convention in most text-to-html systems. - Since this is code-focused, you could make google-code-prettify available for syntax highlighting (or something similar): http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ - The "vote up" feature should be available on the front page, rather than only being available in the right side "project control" section once you click on a project - Speaking of, I think you should move "Project Controls" to the top of the project page. It's hard to find them on the right side. Some "pie in the sky" new features to consider: - Someone mentioned integration with code hosting services like Github: that could be very cool - Having the project proposal be a Wiki rather than an original proposal with comments - Google maps (or similar) integration to schedule meetings I'm definitely going to keep visiting. It's a great idea. Keep it up. And if you're interested in working on a Python project, I've proposed one! http://clusterify.com/projects/list/pixelmonkey/11/ http://clusterify.com/projects/list/pixelmonkey/11/

pixelmonkey 18y ago
I said "Google maps," but I obviously meant "Google Calendar" :-) Was playing with geodjango today, had maps on my mind... But that made me think of one other thing. When I first saw this website, I thought that you might have been focused on in-person meetups for hacking sessions. Obviously, a local meetup has limited appeal until you have a more diffuse userbase, but I still think it wouldn't be a bad idea to support 'local' clusterifies in some way. I'm going to try posting one and see what happens.
aneesh 18y ago
Hey pixelmonkey, thanks for the great feedback! google-code-prettify looks like a cool idea. > After I posted my clusterify project idea, I realized I had made a mistake in the Markdown. Can we get a preview feature? You can just edit the project idea -- there's a link to do that on the project page. > The "vote up" feature should be available on the front page, rather than only being available in the right side "project control" section once you click on a project This is by design for now -- we want people to actually read a project before voting it up. > Google [Calendar] (or similar) integration to schedule meetings After seeing the feedback here, supporting events & in-person meetups is something we want to do. We're thinking about the best way to support this, and should have something new for you guys before too long.
fsav 18y ago
First of all: thanks for the detailed feedback! More precise points: - About the colors: you're not the only one to have mentioned this. I'll experiment with lighter background etc. and see what comes out. - The Markdown is straight from http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/ http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/, but I agree that in most wiki markup syntaxes I'm used to URLs being linked automatically. - google-code-prettify looks interesting. Not sure how to integrate it with Markdown, though. - We'll move the controls up in the sidebar. Indeed the references etc. pushed them too far to the bottom.

pixelmonkey 18y ago

I said "Google maps," but I obviously meant "Google Calendar" :-) Was playing with geodjango today, had maps on my mind... But that made me think of one other thing. When I first saw this website, I thought that you might have been focused on in-person meetups for hacking sessions. Obviously, a local meetup has limited appeal until you have a more diffuse userbase, but I still think it wouldn't be a bad idea to support 'local' clusterifies in some way. I'm going to try posting one and see what happens.

aneesh 18y ago

Hey pixelmonkey, thanks for the great feedback! google-code-prettify looks like a cool idea. > After I posted my clusterify project idea, I realized I had made a mistake in the Markdown. Can we get a preview feature? You can just edit the project idea -- there's a link to do that on the project page. > The "vote up" feature should be available on the front page, rather than only being available in the right side "project control" section once you click on a project This is by design for now -- we want people to actually read a project before voting it up. > Google [Calendar] (or similar) integration to schedule meetings After seeing the feedback here, supporting events & in-person meetups is something we want to do. We're thinking about the best way to support this, and should have something new for you guys before too long.

fsav 18y ago

First of all: thanks for the detailed feedback! More precise points: - About the colors: you're not the only one to have mentioned this. I'll experiment with lighter background etc. and see what comes out. - The Markdown is straight from http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/ http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/, but I agree that in most wiki markup syntaxes I'm used to URLs being linked automatically. - google-code-prettify looks interesting. Not sure how to integrate it with Markdown, though. - We'll move the controls up in the sidebar. Indeed the references etc. pushed them too far to the bottom.