alt.hn

1/16/2025 at 1:23:17 PM

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

 https://github.com/KingMenes/awesome-launch

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 7:26:48 PM

Missing these:

• The Linux Software Map: <https://lsm.qqx.org/>

• Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) <http://freshcode.club/>

by teddyh

1/16/2025 at 7:47:37 PM

Gonna look into these, thanks for sharing!

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 3:56:08 PM

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

by pknerd

1/17/2025 at 1:52:22 PM

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)

by xtiansimon

1/16/2025 at 4:19:04 PM

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

by preciousoo

1/16/2025 at 4:52:03 PM

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

by pknerd

1/18/2025 at 12:19:42 AM

damn, i became the person i was describing

by preciousoo

1/16/2025 at 5:26:01 PM

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.

by airstrike

1/17/2025 at 6:58:00 AM

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.

by heyarviind2

1/16/2025 at 9:57:12 PM

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.

by samsquire

1/17/2025 at 4:19:55 AM

There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.

by jasfi

1/17/2025 at 11:49:00 AM

Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?

by stuartjohnson12

1/16/2025 at 9:13:17 PM

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...

by AznHisoka

1/16/2025 at 4:26:01 PM

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

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 4:54:28 PM

nope

by pknerd

1/17/2025 at 9:15:12 AM

It's called UX Research.

by sweetdreamerit

1/16/2025 at 4:18:02 PM

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. ;-)

by mxuribe

1/17/2025 at 6:40:47 PM

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.

by pplonski86

1/16/2025 at 8:29:24 PM

> 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

by pentagrama

1/16/2025 at 8:36:04 PM

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

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 6:44:40 PM

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.

by captn3m0

1/17/2025 at 2:23:23 AM

You omitted a very famous website: starterstory

by terrycody

1/17/2025 at 4:19:35 AM

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

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 3:52:52 PM

Subscribed RSS. Very helpful!

by navigate8310

1/16/2025 at 10:09:57 PM

Thanks for this. Really nice resource.

by monophonica

1/16/2025 at 3:33:00 PM

Nice, was looking for something similar.

by kiru_io

1/16/2025 at 5:45:19 PM

Thanks, perfect timing

by khnov

1/16/2025 at 3:33:30 PM

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.

by that_guy_iain

1/16/2025 at 3:30:59 PM

Very nice!

by frizlab

1/16/2025 at 6:07:33 PM

nice!

by superkittyspark

1/16/2025 at 4:05:33 PM

Missing lobste.rs

by rorytbyrne

1/16/2025 at 4:24:50 PM

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

by soGeneri

1/16/2025 at 4:30:49 PM

isn't that "closed" ?

meaning not anyone can post something there?

by Dansvidania

1/16/2025 at 5:37:43 PM

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

by rorytbyrne

1/16/2025 at 8:32:16 PM

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

by hmlwilliams

1/17/2025 at 7:55:26 AM

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