I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.
preciousoo 169 days ago [-]
Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever
pknerd 168 days ago [-]
The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face
airstrike 168 days 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 167 days ago [-]
damn, i became the person i was describing
xtiansimon 168 days 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 168 days 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.
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.
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...
jasfi 168 days ago [-]
There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.
stuartjohnson12 168 days ago [-]
Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?
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 168 days ago [-]
> Niche Communities
> Designer News - A community for designers, where you can share your design-related side projects and get feedback from other designers.
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 168 days ago [-]
You omitted a very famous website: starterstory
soGeneri 168 days ago [-]
I don’t think starter story fits into the spirit of this list. Seems like a paid product?
• The Linux Software Map: <https://lsm.qqx.org/>
• Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) <http://freshcode.club/>
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.
* 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. ;-)
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.
> 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
For everyone else, I found this article to be super helpful to understand what kind of RSS functionality is available: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-git...
> 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.
meaning not anyone can post something there?