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Show HN: HackerBracket – What are you working on?

60 points by henryboldi 12y ago

koopajah 12y ago
Seems to be loading indefinitely for me, do you have to signup to see anything?
- henryboldi 12y ago
  My site might just be indefinitely slow :-(. You don't have to signup to see anything.
  - koopajah 12y ago
    Oh just tried in Chrome and loads fine, might be a Firefox issue there?
    - arenaninja 12y ago
      I get more and more of those recently... unfortunately I'm unwilling to fire up Chrome specifically for any site
purans 12y ago
How can I login or create account?
- henryboldi 12y ago
  The buttons to signup and login are in nav bar on the top right, but I've gotten word that those buttons don't appear on Safari. -_- doh.
  - purans 12y ago
    haha i am using safari, let me try on chrome!
    - henryboldi 12y ago
      :D thank you!
rfrey 12y ago
I'd love a clearer indication of your mission, maybe in the tagline or an about-us page. I can't decide if you're a new-product-finder, an announcement platform, or a social network for hackers. There's evidence for each of those in different views of the site. :)
- koopajah 12y ago
  Was gonna say this now that I've seen it work! From a first inspection this makes me think of producthunt but maybe for projects in progress or not launch-ready?
  - henryboldi 12y ago
    Right on the money! It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  It's main purpose is to get feedback on what you're working on as you're working on it. I realize now that I never mention that on the site. Thanks for pointing that out!
krapp 12y ago
It looks interesting. Loading really slowly though (firefox).
- henryboldi 12y ago
  Thank you :-). The loading time is definitely something I need to work on.
  - krapp 12y ago
    FWIW, to me it looks like linkify.js is timing out on something.
    - henryboldi 12y ago
      Noted. Thank you!
giancarlostoro 12y ago
Website is really slow on Firefox 32 (on Ubuntu), it's like trying to run Atom. After that, hopefully it remains responsive. Maybe add a limit to how much data is shown right away? like 5 posts, then load the rest as people scroll down? Duno, feels like too many posts are being downloaded at once.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  The site is definitely too slow. Thanks for the tip! I'm going to reduce the number of posts downloaded and then also lazy load the images.. hopefully that will help.
  - krapp 12y ago
    Are you getting all of the posts as a single JSON object? It might also speed things up to make multiple small requests to the API (one per post) and handle it asynchronously. That wouldn't be something you could do quickly, though. Also maybe don't even call linkify.js until an item loads (you can set custom event handlers for dynamically generated elements in jQuery[0]) - I don't know if you're already doing this or not. Fewer posts per page would probably help too. [0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-event-listeners-to-dynamically-added-elements https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-e...
    - henryboldi 12y ago
      Yes, I'm getting 15 posts as a single JSON object. I'm going to try these things. Thanks for the help!!!
mring33621 12y ago
Seems not to support animated GIFs.
teh_klev 12y ago
I don't normally complain about such things, but your font colour could be a lot more contrasty. It's on the extreme end of the current grey text on white/light background vogue and even for me it's pretty hellish to read.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  Noted. Thank you! I've heard this a couple times too so your eyes are not the issue hah
  - teh_klev 12y ago
    Appreciated!
rockdiesel 12y ago
Where's the bracket? Based on the name and the logo, I assumed this would be setup like some kind of tournament bracket.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  HackerBracket was something totally different originally, but I couldn't think of a new name. xD
  - jbenz 12y ago
    Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this: http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg
    - henryboldi 12y ago
      hahaha fantastic idea!
findjashua 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, it's an open version of Producthunt?
- henryboldi 12y ago
  You're not wrong :). It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready-- which I believe is most of them.
piran 12y ago
Your website made me force quit firefox 32 on macbook pro retina....
- henryboldi 12y ago
  eeek! sorry about that! working on fixing the issues on ff.
yournemesis 12y ago
Nice but the infinite scroll is unbearable. You have some badness going on there. It completely blocks the UI and it crashes Chrome if the dev tools are open. Good luck.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  Thanks! I'm working on fixing that.
ultimatedelman 12y ago
I joined and posted something and a few things jumped out: no place for a link to the project (if there's a home for it) and no way to edit or update posts. Weird.
- henryboldi 12y ago
  There's now links to projects by clicking the timestamp. Edit coming soon. :)
coreymgilmore 12y ago
The "+" icon in the upper left corner throws an error when you are not logged in: {"success":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"You are not logged in."}} For some reason I doubt this is by design. Also, when you upload a pic for the "screenshot", there is no confirmation after the progress bar disappears. No thumbnail, no "Ok, pic uploaded!". Nothing. Another note: no place to put hyperlinks when you create a post?! And I cannot edit my post afterword (to add a hyperlink in the description).
- henryboldi 12y ago
  Noted. Thank you!
nateparrott 12y ago
I'm imagining a Pinterest-style UI working great here — I can imagine tons of people using a sort of Pinterest for code/products.
- rohvar98 12y ago
  Yes!
rickr 12y ago
The UI for updating a project is a bit off. I think a 'My Projects' type link where I could see and edit would work a bit better.
spb 12y ago
Is that loading icon supposed to be a game of 2048?

60 points by henryboldi 12y ago

koopajah 12y ago

Seems to be loading indefinitely for me, do you have to signup to see anything?

henryboldi 12y ago
My site might just be indefinitely slow :-(. You don't have to signup to see anything.
- koopajah 12y ago
  Oh just tried in Chrome and loads fine, might be a Firefox issue there?
  - arenaninja 12y ago
    I get more and more of those recently... unfortunately I'm unwilling to fire up Chrome specifically for any site

purans 12y ago

How can I login or create account?

henryboldi 12y ago
The buttons to signup and login are in nav bar on the top right, but I've gotten word that those buttons don't appear on Safari. -_- doh.
- purans 12y ago
  haha i am using safari, let me try on chrome!
  - henryboldi 12y ago
    :D thank you!

rfrey 12y ago

I'd love a clearer indication of your mission, maybe in the tagline or an about-us page. I can't decide if you're a new-product-finder, an announcement platform, or a social network for hackers. There's evidence for each of those in different views of the site. :)

koopajah 12y ago
Was gonna say this now that I've seen it work! From a first inspection this makes me think of producthunt but maybe for projects in progress or not launch-ready?
- henryboldi 12y ago
  Right on the money! It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready.
henryboldi 12y ago
It's main purpose is to get feedback on what you're working on as you're working on it. I realize now that I never mention that on the site. Thanks for pointing that out!

krapp 12y ago

It looks interesting. Loading really slowly though (firefox).

henryboldi 12y ago
Thank you :-). The loading time is definitely something I need to work on.
- krapp 12y ago
  FWIW, to me it looks like linkify.js is timing out on something.
  - henryboldi 12y ago
    Noted. Thank you!

giancarlostoro 12y ago

Website is really slow on Firefox 32 (on Ubuntu), it's like trying to run Atom. After that, hopefully it remains responsive. Maybe add a limit to how much data is shown right away? like 5 posts, then load the rest as people scroll down? Duno, feels like too many posts are being downloaded at once.

henryboldi 12y ago
The site is definitely too slow. Thanks for the tip! I'm going to reduce the number of posts downloaded and then also lazy load the images.. hopefully that will help.
- krapp 12y ago
  Are you getting all of the posts as a single JSON object? It might also speed things up to make multiple small requests to the API (one per post) and handle it asynchronously. That wouldn't be something you could do quickly, though. Also maybe don't even call linkify.js until an item loads (you can set custom event handlers for dynamically generated elements in jQuery[0]) - I don't know if you're already doing this or not. Fewer posts per page would probably help too. [0]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-event-listeners-to-dynamically-added-elements https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12065329/jquery-adding-e...
  - henryboldi 12y ago
    Yes, I'm getting 15 posts as a single JSON object. I'm going to try these things. Thanks for the help!!!

mring33621 12y ago

Seems not to support animated GIFs.

teh_klev 12y ago

I don't normally complain about such things, but your font colour could be a lot more contrasty. It's on the extreme end of the current grey text on white/light background vogue and even for me it's pretty hellish to read.

henryboldi 12y ago
Noted. Thank you! I've heard this a couple times too so your eyes are not the issue hah
- teh_klev 12y ago
  Appreciated!

rockdiesel 12y ago

Where's the bracket? Based on the name and the logo, I assumed this would be setup like some kind of tournament bracket.

henryboldi 12y ago
HackerBracket was something totally different originally, but I couldn't think of a new name. xD
- jbenz 12y ago
  Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this: http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg
  - henryboldi 12y ago
    hahaha fantastic idea!

findjashua 12y ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's an open version of Producthunt?

henryboldi 12y ago
You're not wrong :). It's for getting feedback on projects that are in progress or not launch ready-- which I believe is most of them.

piran 12y ago

Your website made me force quit firefox 32 on macbook pro retina....

henryboldi 12y ago
eeek! sorry about that! working on fixing the issues on ff.

yournemesis 12y ago

Nice but the infinite scroll is unbearable. You have some badness going on there. It completely blocks the UI and it crashes Chrome if the dev tools are open. Good luck.

henryboldi 12y ago
Thanks! I'm working on fixing that.

ultimatedelman 12y ago

I joined and posted something and a few things jumped out: no place for a link to the project (if there's a home for it) and no way to edit or update posts. Weird.

henryboldi 12y ago
There's now links to projects by clicking the timestamp. Edit coming soon. :)

coreymgilmore 12y ago

The "+" icon in the upper left corner throws an error when you are not logged in: {"success":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"You are not logged in."}} For some reason I doubt this is by design. Also, when you upload a pic for the "screenshot", there is no confirmation after the progress bar disappears. No thumbnail, no "Ok, pic uploaded!". Nothing. Another note: no place to put hyperlinks when you create a post?! And I cannot edit my post afterword (to add a hyperlink in the description).

henryboldi 12y ago
Noted. Thank you!

nateparrott 12y ago

I'm imagining a Pinterest-style UI working great here — I can imagine tons of people using a sort of Pinterest for code/products.

rohvar98 12y ago
Yes!

rickr 12y ago

The UI for updating a project is a bit off. I think a 'My Projects' type link where I could see and edit would work a bit better.

spb 12y ago

Is that loading icon supposed to be a game of 2048?