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Show HN: Breakpoint.io - Share and get feedback on your side projects
- georgelawrence 14y agoCool site! Suggestions: - Use Gravatar for the avatar - Add a field in the profile for GitHub Also, just added mine... http://breakpoint.io/116-straply/ http://breakpoint.io/116-straply/
- vertis 14y agoJust added my project. Thanks for making something awesome :)
- drewtemp 14y agoYou're welcome. Thanks for the comment and adding your project!
- goldfeld 14y agoI can't help but feel all these websites miss out on what makes Hacker News great: density of information leading to a quick scan of the zeitgeist. I just feel constrained looking at this website's frontpage.
- binarymax 14y agoI agree. This is a good idea but the giant thumbnails are very hard to parse since they clash with each other. Would be nicer if it was a simple uniformly styled text list with taglines, and user interaction (mouseovers/expands/something) to show thumbnails?
- thomseddon 14y agoHard to parse + frustratingly unfruitful. I just want to know what the things does, screenshot is a bonus.
- drewtemp 14y agoThanks for the feedback. Prior to the current styling, I had a screenshot with title, author, description, etc to the right. I found it cluttered and difficult to read through a list of projects. I'll keep working on it and see if I can find something.
- bennyg 14y agoI think the name of the project is more important than who posted it. Maybe switch the username for the Title, under each submission?
- arkitaip 14y agoSince most of us check HN multiple times throughout the day I don't think it matters that much, especially since the rate of project submission will be relatively (to HN) low.
- jweir 14y agoI agree: density would be much better. The screen shot is less important than the description and the discussion. A thumbnail will suffice.
- expralitemonk 14y agoMany side projects don't have eye candy. Maybe skip the screenshot altogether, and just give a summary + link, which is what "One Thing Well" did. http://onethingwell.org http://onethingwell.org Great idea though. (I might use it soon.)
- drewtemp 14y agoInteresting idea. Thanks for that :)
- justhw 14y agoNice work. I'm glad you are tackling it [1], now it's off my table. Hopefully your site is back up to let me signup. The UI could benefit from simplicity. [1] = http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030945 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5030945
- drewtemp 14y agoI started the project a few days before that was posted. Seeing that only inspired us to continue. EDIT: Yeah, the site is getting hammered right now.
- nns 14y agoIt'd be good to have the projects tagline on the mouseover display - so one doesn't have to navigate away to see what a project does. Great Job!
- tristanoneil 14y agoAwesome idea. Just added my side project :) https://breakpoint.io/41-furnace https://breakpoint.io/41-furnace
- j-m-o 14y agoCool. I threw my side project up there: https://breakpoint.io/48-ringo/ https://breakpoint.io/48-ringo/ http://www.tryringo.com http://www.tryringo.com Given that most Show HN's never hit the front page (mine was in the 1st page of the 'new' tab for just 20 minutes!), hopefully this fills in a niche that seems to be missing from HN. Good work!
- drewtemp 14y agoThanks for the feedback! I really want to turn it into a community where others provide great feedback on their side projects.
- wwwtyro 14y agoI like this quite a lot. I hope you keep iterating on it. I've added my project: http://breakpoint.io/50-underspark/ http://breakpoint.io/50-underspark/
- drewtemp 14y agoThanks. I plan to keep working on it. I've been working on it for a bit of time now on the side and finally decided to release it.
- johnrampton 14y agoyou need more too it... What's the wow feature?
- illyism 14y agoI love the idea! But I think it would be great if people would be able to change their thumbnail screenshot that is shown on the popular and latest list. I've added my project[1] but I changing the lead screenshot is not possible which is a shame. It's also not possible to delete screenshots, which should be a must-have feature. [1]: https://breakpoint.io/65-instaghent/ https://breakpoint.io/65-instaghent/ http://www.instaghent.com/ http://www.instaghent.com/
- machbio 14y agocache problems with images of Breakpoint - still showing the same image even after i changed the screenshot of my side project
- BryanB55 14y agoNice idea. I added one of my projects: https://breakpoint.io/84-quotepress-turn-your-customers-into-spokespeople/ https://breakpoint.io/84-quotepress-turn-your-customers-into... Although it looks like one of the screenshots I added is not displaying. Could just be hackernews traffic maybe, I noticed there is also an image error with the ad in the sidebar. [edit] Looks like both screenshots are showing now.
- TallboyOne 14y agoAmazon takes awhile to get up to speed from when I submitted mine.
- drewtemp 14y agoA mix with Amazon + backend processing. The server was getting hammered so there was a bit of a delay.
- mootothemax 14y agoVery fun, I've added one of my projects here: http://breakpoint.io/43-trackchat/ http://breakpoint.io/43-trackchat/ As others have said, the screenshots management bit needs to be improvement - it's a bit of a guess as to what'll work best right now. But I imagine that will come with time. Good luck!
- mayank 14y agoGreat idea and execution, but it's somewhat telling that some of the "side projects" people are posting really don't look like side projects.
- marknutter 14y agoWhat exactly is a side project supposed to look like?
- pcorsaro 14y agoVery cool idea, I put my project up here: https://breakpoint.io/101-grouvee/ https://breakpoint.io/101-grouvee/
- coolbrow 14y agoGreat idea! Hope I get good feedback on one of my newer projects: https://breakpoint.io/103-awdio/ https://breakpoint.io/103-awdio/
- danenania 14y agoI like the idea a lot. Nice work! One slightly negative impression: while there are already lots of good submissions and it looks like people are using the heart button, there are very few feedback comments so far. I particularly like the idea of a smaller, more tight-knit group of HNers giving each other feedback, since it seems nearly impossible these days to get any attention for a Show HN post without preexisting internet fame or a voting ring, so I found it a bit unfortunate that Breakpoint seems be starting out more in the direction of show-off gallery than a place for substantive discussion and critique in the HN vein. I'm not really sure how to remedy this. Perhaps placing more emphasis on discussion vs. screenshots could help?
- coolbrow 14y agoI totally agree. I think the main issue at this point is in order to have really good, constructive feedback, you need actual users. Maybe over time, once people start using projects, there will be more feedback.
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- bennyg 14y agoEveryone wants feedback, nobody wants to give it. I'm gonna' try and go through a bunch here in a minute. This is a beautiful site to navigate.
- vanni 14y ago"(...) there are very few feedback comments so far. I particularly like the idea of a smaller, more tight-knit group of HNers giving each other feedback (...)" This is one of the reasons behind my Google+ community for and about Internet Startups [1] - currently the largest one about this topic - where you can post under the "Introduce your startup" category and get precious feedback. [1] https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968 https://plus.google.com/communities/100445483815501942968
- callmeed 14y agoI really like it and I hope you're able to get some traction/traffic with it–but also balance it with having a solid community. Frankly, submitting "Show HN" posts here is now useless and a bit frustrating. Most of them seem to get lost.
- c0d3sl1ngr 14y agoHi, I am sure you are aware, but as I tried to load my project, your site crashed. I ran this on a VM with a spoofed IP as well, so Im not sure whether it is all domains or not...
- TallboyOne 14y agoInternal server error
- illyism 14y agoIt did survive for almost 2 hours.
- rschmitty 14y agoNot much.. but something http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://breakpoint.io/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoThe name "breakpoint" seems almost prophetic now.
- drewtemp 14y agoSorry about that. Memcached errors. It's back!
- sirchadlington 14y agoI'm getting an Internal Server Error
- TallboyOne 14y agohttp://breakpoint.io/45-pineappleio/ http://breakpoint.io/45-pineappleio/
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- halis 14y agoWas trying to submit http://halis.io http://halis.io and got an internal server error
- littledot5566 14y agoSite is down.
- holgersindbaek 14y agoDown
- atte 14y agoI like the idea and the design. This has some overlap with Launchsky (including a similar UI): http://launchsky.com http://launchsky.com The main difference is that we're a platform for sharing ideas, and you're sharing projects that already exist. In any case, good luck with this!
- rk0567 14y agoCool :) few minutes before it was inaccessible but now it works fine! I added my recent experiment : https://breakpoint.io/121-railyo/ https://breakpoint.io/121-railyo/
- acedip 14y agoYou could make signup quicker by adding login with facebook. In this case probably twitter as you are also taking in the twitter username in profile.
- ajryan 14y agoAnother site that tackles this from a non-social angle: http://criticue.com http://criticue.com Interesting 1-for-1 review model. I've used it with good results.
- christiangenco 14y agoI'm getting server error 500 when I try to upload my project (dbinbox.com) :( Edit: The developer (thanks Drew!) emailed me within ten minutes of posting this, figured out what the issue was, and pushed a fix. I'm impressed. Here's my weekend project dbinbox: https://breakpoint.io/144-dbinbox-makes-it-easier-for-people-to-send-you-files/ https://breakpoint.io/144-dbinbox-makes-it-easier-for-people...
- ribeto 14y agoNice idea. I think it's a great way to discover what other people are working on as well
- inthewoods 14y agoNice - posted my own side project - would love some feedback on the idea from HN. https://breakpoint.io/153-bento/ https://breakpoint.io/153-bento/
- bozho 14y agoI'd suggest adding features to keep people coming back. E.g' rss and email subscription for 'hot' projects. Otherwise it might get pretty lonely when you get off the hn front page.
- voltagex_ 14y agoNeeds a login-with-github button - most of my side projects are on GitHub anyway.
- pseut 14y agoThe phrase "hand-whatever" has lost its novelty. I'm reluctant to make such a short and flip comment, but I can't be the only person who cringes every time I see it.