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

76 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by soGeneri
(github.com)

15 Comments

pknerd

an hour ago

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

preciousoo

an hour ago

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

pknerd

22 minutes ago

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

soGeneri

an hour ago

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

mxuribe

an hour 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. ;-)

kiru_io

2 hours ago

Nice, was looking for something similar.

that_guy_iain

2 hours 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.

rorytbyrne

an hour ago

Missing lobste.rs

soGeneri

an hour ago

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

Dansvidania

43 minutes ago

isn't that "closed" ?

meaning not anyone can post something there?