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Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks
- khaledh 12y agoTo avoid some confusion, this was actually called leanstack.io, and it was launched back in 2013.
- yonasb 12y agoWe wrote a blog post about the relaunch: http://stackshare.io/posts/leanstack-io-is-now-stackshare http://stackshare.io/posts/leanstack-io-is-now-stackshare. We should probably link to the post on the homepage though.
- cfitz 12y agoThank you for creating this site! I am a Computer (Software) Engineering student and love to develop web applications in my free time. I am always looking to further my skillset and it seems this will prove really useful in understanding the choice of infrastructure/tools/languages by large companies. Can anyone recommend any resources to better understand the interaction between the aforementioned choices (e.g. why would one company prefer a certain combination of language and infrastructure over a different combination)?
- andrewjkerr 12y agoIf you go to an individual company's page, you'll see references which may include a post/article about why they chose x over y. Tumblr's tech stack page (http://stackshare.io/tumblr/tumblr http://stackshare.io/tumblr/tumblr) has an article about why they chose Scala over other options and it's pretty neat.
- josegonzalez 12y agoSeems like the scanning may be broken. I just tried it with https://seatgeek.com https://seatgeek.com and it says the site isn't public.
- yonasb 12y agoEh, sorry. Should be fixed now. Try pasting in the URL
- waitingkuo 12y agoNice site. I've been the user since it called leanstack.io . It's pretty useful!
- sehr 12y agoI'm honestly surprised this hasn't been created before, really cool idea!
- gk1 12y agohttp://leanstack.io http://leanstack.io is very similar. EDIT: Oh, leanstack.io now redirects to stackshare.io... So I guess this is a rebranding.
- kruk 12y agoInteresting site. A valuable tool for startups and developers looking to expand their toolset. Please make a shortcut for "I use this", so we can add technologies without navigating to their individual pages. I added 10 technologies off the top of my head but I keep being reminded of other ones I use and adding them involves a lot of clicking and back and forth. Added to favourites!
- yonasb 12y agoThanks for the feedback, will do! Currently, you have to add them to a stack or contribute/vote on content on their page. We'll definitely look into making that easier.
- rip747 12y agohmmm... doesn't seem to detect cfml as being used. other than that, very nice!!! I scanned the cfwheels repo: https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels picked up almost everything that we're using
- hackertoolbox 12y agoGreat job! I wouldn't have created http://hackertoolbox.com http://hackertoolbox.com if I knew this. Time to kill myself!
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoThis is neat. One thing, would it be possible to show "verified" accounts? Meaning if someone puts up the stack that Twitter uses, how do I know for sure this isn't someone's guess and someone at Twitter actually posted it?
- yonasb 12y agoYes! That has been a requested feature for quite some time so we added it: http://stackshare.io/parse/parse http://stackshare.io/parse/parse (more here: http://stackshare.io/stacks http://stackshare.io/stacks). A lot of the non-verified stacks have citations, so even if someone didn't post their stack you can see where the info came from.
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoAh I didn't notice that. Nice!
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- BenderV 12y agoFirst of all, thank you. It's great! I'm interested in the 'business' aspect of this site. How do you plan to make profit ? How can you make people come back to the site when the stacks don't change that quickly ?
- sarciszewski 12y agoOh, neat. This will save me ~5 minutes of recon time if I ever need to do a pen-test for any of the companies that are submitted here. ;)
- glenngillen 12y agoI've also been finding it useful to identify companies for product validation testing by seeing who uses various underlying components that are within my core demographic, combined with LinkedIn/moves.io to find someone to speak to.
- igammarays 12y agoDammit this was one of my startup ideas...oh well. Nice work btw. It might be interesting to group companies by industry. Considering I work in education, I would want to know what LMSs and CRMs are used by educational institutes for example. Which raises another thought: wouldn't some organizations want to keep their stack secret from competitors, since a mature stack is usually the result of years of experienced decision-making.
- mateuszf 12y ago"Browsing" button on the main page doesn't work for. Firefox on OSX.
- Bognar 12y agoDoesn't work in Nightly on Windows 8 either.
- disposition2 12y agoDidn't work for me in Chrome until I disabled (paused) Ghostery.
- yonasb 12y agoSorry! Do you have javascript disabled? If so, you'll have a very hard time using the site because of how we're tracking events.
- mateuszf 12y agoI never disable javascript. Also no Ghostery.
- porker 12y agoDoesn't work with HTTP Switchboard enabled on Chrome either. None of the links on the site do, which makes it a one-page site... ;)
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- patja 12y agoWhere are the Windows stack components? For example, I don't believe Stack Overflow runs solely on Redis for their data storage.
- cpcarey 12y agoThis is great! I like being able to see so many different Utilities and DevOps tools being used. But it seems like many of the top stacks don't mention the application frameworks or languages that they're using. Why might that be the case?
- joeclark77 12y agoThis is great. I'll definitely show it to my students (undergrad Information Systems majors) who are trying to figure out what tools to learn.
- rubiquity 12y agoWhen did IaaS/PaaS/SaaS products become part of the "stack?"
- glenngillen 12y agoWhen did it not? I've been interviewing people for the past few weeks asking them about their stack and they all invariably say at one point "running on (aws|heroku|azure)". The [PaaS wiki entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service) itself says it's providing a "solution stack" as a service.
- dexterbt1 12y agoThis and the then leanstack.io is actually close / already fulfills #54 idea in https://github.com/samsquire/ideas https://github.com/samsquire/ideas, great and very interesting stuff.
- Jhsto 12y agoI don't understand what is up with your site - this and the old LeanStack - but when I have Ghostery enabled I'm completely unable to click buttons. Mind taking a look at it maybe?
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- yonasb 12y agoSorry about that. We gather metrics on site usage so we can monitor how people are using the site. We're looking into a fix.
- PRIVACYINVASION 12y agoOK, guys, if you are watching me using your site then could you PLEASE announce that in a very big red block on the landing page or in a way that cookies are announced on many sites nowadays? You should accept that usage monitoring is an inacceptable privacy invasion for many people nowadays and we would like to be informed about that kind of monitoring before using a site, so we can decide if we like it or not.
- coderjames 12y agoI also have this problem and I don't even use Ghostery. Just plain vanilla Firefox 32.0.3 on Windows 7 with Cookie Monster and AdBlock Plus. Went so far as to allow cookies because that fouls up a lot of sites and this looks really interesting, but still no dice. I'll see if updating to 33.0.2 helps. EDIT: Nope. Clicking any button still has no effect.
- ecesena 12y agoVery cool! Right this morning I was looking at who's using django+mysql. Can I ask you how accurate is the data and if/when it's "certified" from the source? From my morning search I found pinterest and rdio using both django and mysql, but this is not reflected in StackShare (missing mysql for pinterest, missing both django, mysql for rdio -- again, I'm not sure about my results, it's just a coincidence that I was searching that).
- yonasb 12y agoThanks! Some stacks have more info than others for sure. The quality of the data will get better as more companies claim their pages and verify their stack (e.g. http://stackshare.io/mailgun/mailgun http://stackshare.io/mailgun/mailgun). For stacks that are not verified, we're inviting users to be community moderators and contributors to these pages to beef up the citations :)
- ecesena 12y agoAwesome, thank you for the details!
- nichochar 12y agoThis is basically leanstack right? Whats the catch, rebranding?
- sergiotapia 12y agoWe explain the relaunch and new features here: http://stackshare.io/posts/leanstack-io-is-now-stackshare http://stackshare.io/posts/leanstack-io-is-now-stackshare
- rmsaksida 12y agoThe front page's "Sign in with Github" doesn't work for me on Chrome/Linux (Chromium 37 on Ubuntu 14.04).
- jimmcslim 12y agoAwesome idea. Top Trumps for Software Stacks!
- volker 12y agoNo RSS feed... really?
- Tehnix 12y agoI didn't know people still used that. What would you want out of the RSS feed from this site? (Actually curious :3..) Edit: Ah, didn't see the trending updates before now. Altering my question a bit: is there a lot of ppl on HN using RSS?
- twelvedigits 12y agoThis is a great idea. In general, I think there's great potential in anything that connects developers with other developers to provide reviews of software. Recently, I tried to research some of the new CMS/API platforms that have been released in the last year. There was no information. I'm sure these API's have been used thousands of times, but developer has written a review. So I'm left making decisions off marketing pages and PR-driven blog entries. Implementation takes hours that I don't have, I just want a trusted review. It's really dry territory. You can do well here.
- feider 12y agoFor other than startups, this provides nice gallery of idiocy: "Look, this is how many external Saas-dependencies we have and we have no control over our service." Just saying, because it is one thing to use open source and totally different thing to rely on 3rd party services.
- avighnay 12y agoOnly in software industry do we still fee this way! For e.g. Can we imagine a car delivered to us without involvement of any third party components? Why do we feel software always has to be built from scratch or use free (open?) stuff? What is wrong in software being built on credible third party services? Perhaps the sign of a mature industry is when such credible third party partnerships become the norm...
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoI reckon the main issue is reliability. In your example of car delivery, if one driver is unavailable, there's gonna be a replacement. You could argue that if one datacenter goes down there'll be another, but those too can fail - see also the Amazon outage last year or whenever it was. And unlike a car delivery, these 3rd party suppliers (like AWS) will severely impact your business if they fail. Of course, so would a power outage. So IDK, there's pros and cons, as with everything.
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- jimmyislive 12y agoNice work yonas... here's my side project as well, doing something similar :) https://packageindex.com/#!/ https://packageindex.com/#!/ All the best Yonas...
- prydonius 12y agoThis is really cool, I've wanted to create something like this myself for some time. How did you go about initially curating enough data? On another note, it would be great to see a brief description about why the company uses a particular technology.
- yonasb 12y agoGlad you asked! We started off filling it out for the popular startups, which eventually created the desire for others to join in and do it themselves (hence the rebranding from Leanstack.io to StackShare). Regarding your suggestion, every page has this tab: http://stackshare.io/stackshare/stackshare/details http://stackshare.io/stackshare/stackshare/details. This feature was released today so not many stacks have the details just yet. But we'll be highlighting companies every week and having them fill this out, so stay tuned! Also, feel free to share your stack :)
- aliakhtar 12y agoCool idea, but there seem to be a few duplicates for Java. When I search 'Java', I see 3-4 duplicate results, only the first one has any companies listed, and the rest seem to be empty?
- Nowaker 12y agoLeanstack.io was extremely useful for discovering services. Needed best A/B testing tools? I used to go to Leanstack. I don't seem to find any reason to visit Stackshare. I don't really care whether Twitter uses Zendesk or Freshdesk.
- yonasb 12y agoStackShare has even more tools and services than Leanstack did, with more ways to discover them. Perhaps our messaging needs some work. StackShare is still very much about finding the best tools: http://stackshare.io/mobile-a-b-testing http://stackshare.io/mobile-a-b-testing. Would love to hear your feedback, shoot me an email if you're up for it: yonas [at] stackshare.io. EDIT: Just noticed you're behind Virtkick. Funny enough we just listed you last night: http://stackshare.io/virtkick http://stackshare.io/virtkick
- Nowaker 12y agoThat's indeed extremely funny. I spotted it some time after I wrote the original post, then started writing my auto-trolling reply to self. ;)
- Nowaker 12y agoI found the reason to visit Stackshare real quick. I just checked today's Analytics of my startup https://www.virtkick.io https://www.virtkick.io - 20% visits originates from stackshare, so I now have to claim it. ;) Quite funny, I tell ya. It doesn't change the main concern, though. leanstack.io was the greatest site to find services.
- TheAceOfHearts 12y agoDoesn't let you submit a new site on mobile :(. Nexus 5 with latest stable Chrome.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoNice, I've been using http://www.slant.co http://www.slant.co for this sort of thing. Different stacks and commentary from folks on plusses and minuses. The rating system is nice but the question I'm always trying to answer is "Can I solve problem X with Stack Y?"
- BorisMelnik 12y agoHad a similar idea and an awesome name "What the Stack?" Wish I would have went with it seeing how awesome this is.
- hliyan 12y agoIs there a way to embed this inside a company website?
- techaddict009 12y agoOne feature I would request is search. Say I want to see all stack which have Ec2 or digital ocean in it. Rest this will seriously be helpful to us. Edit: Its already there but not directly.
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- swah 12y agoJoshu had the very interesting http://www.stackparts.com http://www.stackparts.com