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Re: Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?

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Also, can you share your GitHub? I'd love to see a project where I could be more targeted with help, if possible

Thanks for sharing your experience. And yes, here is my GitHub if you want to see: https://github.com/loerei I didn't want to post it when I made this post because I genuinely wanted to ask for advice. I wouldn't have this many comments if I were trying to advertise myself in an Ask HN, lol. Anyways, I'm glad you are interested. I do some projects resolving my own pain, let me see.. I made a file-editing MCP and inte…

You might be making the classic builder mistake when pitching if I'm reading your landing page correctly

"Translate What You See To What Your Agent Needs" is not a job in the user-facing sense. This is a very cool developer workflow tool though in that you're "inspiring" your coding agent to build something like . I personally take screenshots and feed them to my agent for a lower fidelity result, for a similar reason.

The reason I do that is I _DO NOT_ want my sites to look like AI slop (go and look at 50 "I just launched sites; they all look the same), so I need to build out a quiver of design inspiration that can act as a low-barrier-to-entry design system.

But that AI Slop piece would be the pain point I'd be keying into in online forums. People starting conversations with "does anyone else notice all of the new company sites all look the same??" kind of thing.

But for that tool, if I could create a library of interaction points that I liked from other sites and then, via MCP, connect it to my coding agent, that would be a pretty compelling thing for me to try out. Especially if, as I was browsing, I could grab components or interaction points I thought were cool and categorize them.

That's all about hoversource specifically.

The other thing for the other repos: you should add some kind of animation to the headers of your readmes (VHS is a cool CLI recording tool) to get me to actually read them. I'm responding more to hoversource because it had some visualization I could play around with to grok the concept

Re: Ask HN: Make good open-source products, but how to get user?

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing your experience. And yes, here is my GitHub if you want to see: https://github.com/loerei I didn't want to post it when I made this post because I genuinely wanted to ask for advice. I wouldn't have this many comments if I were trying to advertise myself in an Ask HN, lol. Anyways, I'm glad you are interested. I do some projects resolving my own pain, let me see.. I made a file-editing MCP and inte…

You might be making the classic builder mistake when pitching if I'm reading your landing page correctly "Translate What You See To What Your Agent Needs" is not a job in the user-facing sense. This is a very cool developer workflow tool though in that you're "inspiring" your coding agent to build something like . I personally take screenshots and feed them to my agent for a lower fidelity result, for a similar reaso…

So, instead of "Translate What You See To What Your Agent Needs," it should be something more straightforward like "Stop digging through code. Hover over any UI element to instantly copy its exact code context for your AI"?

Yeah, that's a lot clearer to understand what the tool does.

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