Show HN: A tool to earn money by deep linking to GitHub Repos (opens in new tab)

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13 pointsjustkd7y ago10 comments

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I know "everyone's a critic," but that page is more "swooshy" and chaotic than necessary. Made worse by the fact that I had to look at the page source to find out where the bookmarklet lived, which seemed to be pretty central to the success of new users.

It would also be super helpful if you gave examples of what kind of content you were looking for. There are quite a few things that I would, and have for my own purposes, bookmark because I refer to them often. However, I can't say whether some of them are "best practice source code" or not.

Is the audience folks who are learning to program and want to see examples? Or folks trying to configure projects and want to see good build files? Or defensive programming? Or good error messages?

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks so much for the valuable feedback. And you are right, the bookmarklet is not easy to find. It’s funny how we didn’t see that while developing. Only user feedback can do its magic:)

Great idea regarding the examples. By best practice source code we had in mind to bookmark something interesting and important to each users purpose.

In the end of the day users should be able to find all kinds of annotations. The configuring of projects reference you mentioned is the one I prefer the most.

It helps beginners and advanced coders. Let’s hope we build what users want. Again thank you so much for your feedback.

mdaniel7y ago

You will also likely want to do two things to help the tags from spinning out of control: auto-complete and aliasing. The tags used by stackoverflow would be an outstanding point of reference, as they do both of those things, but in addition their tags would be (for all intents) a great list to get things started off. I haven't checked to see if their tag dataset is open, but I also wouldn't imagine it would be terribly hard to get the list, even if they aren't open. I would just avoid taking the descriptions that accompany them, unless that's offered under a liberal license.

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justkdOP7y ago

Hi HN, Karan here. Tobi and I built this experiment to see if people are interested in deep linking into GitHub Repos. We also plan to compensate users. Once we have enough paying users we will share the richness with our users. But we are just starting yet and have no paying users. We hope to get some feedback by HN on this idea. Does this makes sense? Thanks in advance!

nwrk7y ago

Like the product and web. Only one concern: >Once we have enough paying users we will share the richness Before that happen and at your command, the users are training your commercial proprietary AI model for free ?

Why you don't use Amazon Mechanical Turk[0] ? [0] https://www.mturk.com/

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks so much for your feedback. Yeah we thought about offering to users who tag now a free usage for life. AWS Turk is a great idea to add. We will certainly take a look. Thanks!

webmaven7y ago

I suggest you slow down the animation in the hero section, a LOT.

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks for the feedback. It's a bit fast, indeed. We will slow it down or take it away in total.

webmaven7y ago

I see you took it away. That's a shame. Maybe experiment with it going very slowly (think: clouds drifting across the sky)?

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mdaniel7y ago

Is the audience folks who are learning to program and want to see examples? Or folks trying to configure projects and want to see good build files? Or defensive programming? Or good error messages?

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks so much for the valuable feedback. And you are right, the bookmarklet is not easy to find. It’s funny how we didn’t see that while developing. Only user feedback can do its magic:)

Great idea regarding the examples. By best practice source code we had in mind to bookmark something interesting and important to each users purpose.

In the end of the day users should be able to find all kinds of annotations. The configuring of projects reference you mentioned is the one I prefer the most.

It helps beginners and advanced coders. Let’s hope we build what users want. Again thank you so much for your feedback.

mdaniel7y ago

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justkdOP7y ago

nwrk7y ago

Why you don't use Amazon Mechanical Turk[0] ? [0] https://www.mturk.com/

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks so much for your feedback. Yeah we thought about offering to users who tag now a free usage for life. AWS Turk is a great idea to add. We will certainly take a look. Thanks!

webmaven7y ago

I suggest you slow down the animation in the hero section, a LOT.

justkdOP7y ago

Thanks for the feedback. It's a bit fast, indeed. We will slow it down or take it away in total.

webmaven7y ago

I see you took it away. That's a shame. Maybe experiment with it going very slowly (think: clouds drifting across the sky)?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse