Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

185 pointsposted 6 months ago
by soGeneri
(github.com)

46 Comments

pknerd

6 months ago

I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.

preciousoo

6 months ago

Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever

pknerd

6 months ago

The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face

airstrike

6 months ago

The hard problem here is getting people to contribute with content. They have no incentive to share their pain points. Often they don't even know about what it is or how to describe it. You kinda have to do the leg work and diligence of talking to them and trying to pull that information from them, rather than them pushing to you. But I agree this is immensely important.

preciousoo

6 months ago

damn, i became the person i was describing

xtiansimon

6 months ago

Isn’t that just a blog or podcast or even a YouTube channel. You might think I’m being funny, but this is the core purpose of the web—low friction/barriers to put your personal content on www. The low barrier platforms are YouTube and any of the social media apps when a *blogger use these to promote their content hosted anywhere they choose (for all the various reasons someone choose how they want to produce content)

samsquire

6 months ago

If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.

heyarviind2

6 months ago

I am solving this by buidling https://huntlie.com

Users can give feedback for their product which can be used by others to decide which product in the same niche they want before trying every product and then finding out.

I am also trying to figure out ratings (Usability, Support, Value for money) for each product.

AznHisoka

6 months ago

isn't this basically Twitter, FB and even Linkedin (laymen complaining about how they can't find jobs or get ghosted), as well as community/help forums for specific products? Of course, there's no central forum for sharing pains, but people tend to complain in the platform where they're most likely to get a response...

soGeneri

6 months ago

This can be extended to include what you’re talking about. Do you have a list in mind?

mxuribe

6 months ago

Agreed! And, i would call such a site/portal/etc., something like "Awesome Pain"...I guess it could serve as a repo of anything from:

* startup ideas...

* to gotchas for devs to think about fixing for their respective apps/services...

* to a study in best practices, or maybe what not todos...

...etc. ;-)

that_guy_iain

6 months ago

Cool. I actually posted my project to a few open-source directory sites yesterday. I got an email today that it will go live on the 4th of July unless I pay for a quicker submission... I emailed them and pointed out it was just hurting themselves and they said they have a queue and they only do 3 a day so every launch gets its own time sort of thing. The value proposition is that you can find alternatives not that you can launch your project there, it makes no sense to me other than they've seen launch platforms do it so...

I think there needs to be a good open-source alternatives directory that isn't run by someone who doesn't treat it as a launch platform.

pentagrama

6 months ago

> Niche Communities

> Designer News - A community for designers, where you can share your design-related side projects and get feedback from other designers.

Sadly, Designer News looks like it has shut down: https://www.designernews.co

soGeneri

6 months ago

Sad to hear, I used to visit frequently. Will remove, thanks

user

6 months ago

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pplonski86

6 months ago

My dream is to create product that I don’t need to promote. I would like to have such market fit that people will search for product by them self.

jakemanger

6 months ago

Starred! Am currently in the process of releasing a new app so this is what I needed today

captn3m0

6 months ago

This is helpful, but shouldn’t be a Show HN, as it is not something that can be tried out. The Guidelines:

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

terrycody

6 months ago

You omitted a very famous website: starterstory

soGeneri

6 months ago

I don’t think starter story fits into the spirit of this list. Seems like a paid product?

kiru_io

6 months ago

Nice, was looking for something similar.

monophonica

6 months ago

Thanks for this. Really nice resource.

khnov

6 months ago

Thanks, perfect timing

rorytbyrne

6 months ago

Missing lobste.rs

soGeneri

6 months ago

On the list to be added! I’ll check it out

Dansvidania

6 months ago

isn't that "closed" ?

meaning not anyone can post something there?

rorytbyrne

6 months ago

Oh true, forgot about that. You need someone to invite you IIRC.

user

6 months ago

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hmlwilliams

6 months ago

Isn't self promotion frowned upon on lobste.rs?