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Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

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Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#71
I added my site and received the following response:

> josephriddle.com/ideas without update time

I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata.

[0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#72
post #69

The semantic search actually works really well - https://aboutideasnow.com/?q=data+journalism ?q=data+journalism gave me a bunch of interesting people thinking about data journalism and related ideas.

yes, this. it feels pretty magical to immediately find people across the Internet who have most likely "gone deep" on something I also have. it is surprisingly hard to connect with people like this in 2024.

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#73
post #62

I first thought it would be showing all ideas, about, and now simultaneously, but then noticed all the cards only had /ideas, then I thought I had to do url.com/now only to find that redirected to github instead. Then finally I noticed the little filter button. Kind of feel like the categories shouldn't be behind the button, it's not like they really get in the way visually and with them being the only thing there it…

We actually had an argument about this and I wanted to remove the filters entirely (since I didn't see a use case for filtering), Louis wanted to keep them. The compromise is the filter button :) I agree that showing all recent posts types would be more expected given the title. But with the stated purpose of the site right now being to "find people to collaborate with", /ideas posts are the most useful IMO [0]. And…

I agree that showing...

    That sounds pretty reasonable!

    I do wonder though if rewording "Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 7487 personal websites." might help a bit? Maybe something more along the lines of 
"Find new /ideas to discuss and collaborate on or even search for what's /new with people and what they're /about" to focus on the ideas coming first and are not just one of the tags of equal importance to search on with the others.

Why did you want to see a list of people's /now pages?

    Just exploratory curiosity (I also tried /about and /ideas, but left that out for brevity). Being pretty unfamiliar with the idea of /ideas and /now pages I just wanted to see what they tended to be like and it seemed like a core part of the website given the name. 


Given the focus on the ideas part I don't imagine this suggestion to be entirely relevant, but I had an idea about turning your logo header thing that links to your about page (which imo is kind of unintuitive) into the filter. Have it so that that only the current one (or ones?) are colored in and the others are desaturated. And potentially moving the "building open source, starting a community, etc" div/search suggestions to show with the hamburger filter button.

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#75

Thanks for sharing this great project! Randomly browsing through the first page results, I ended up reading some of the ideas. Reading that someone else, somewhere else, has a similar idea, has made my day. Cheers.

Thank you!

Reach out to them and make the idea a reality :)

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#76
post #10

Love it - I knew /about and /now but /ideas is new to me. I am adding this to my site as well. Do you filter results based on last update?

The only thing missing really is a search engine with an LLM. How do you plan to handle our new overlord indexing?

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#77
Great! I don't have an /about or /ideas page, but I do have a /now and a /uses page.

https://gurudas.dev

I currently only have a short blurb on my landing homepage instead of a full /about page because I struggle with anxiety when trying to describe myself and my journey so far (also impostor syndrome).

I like the /ideas page too, but I may not end up finishing ideas if I get my dopamine fix early by publishing them to the world.

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#78
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We actually had an argument about this and I wanted to remove the filters entirely (since I didn't see a use case for filtering), Louis wanted to keep them. The compromise is the filter button :) I agree that showing all recent posts types would be more expected given the title. But with the stated purpose of the site right now being to "find people to collaborate with", /ideas posts are the most useful IMO [0]. And…

I agree that showing... That sounds pretty reasonable! I do wonder though if rewording "Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 7487 personal websites." might help a bit? Maybe something more along the lines of "Find new /ideas to discuss and collaborate on or even search for what's /new with people and what they're /about" to focus on the ideas coming first…

Good points about changing the intro text, thank you. But from all the HN comments I gather that /about and /now are actually core to the experience too and it shouldn't only be about /ideas...

I had the same idea of showing the filter in the header but figured nobody would try to click it :)

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#79

I added my site and received the following response: > josephriddle.com/ideas without update time I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time. Come to find out, it's using ChatGPT! [0] It appears to only be looking at the article contents for the date, not at any page metadata. [0] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/blob/main/apps/a...

Yep but there is a fallback to metascraper [0] which does check the HTML tags. However the fallback didn't work in case GPT returns a 1970 date -- I just fixed this! [1]

I think you can now remove the date from your post content and it should still work. If you submit your website again it should do a re-scrape if you changed the content text. Thanks for catching this :)

[0] https://metascraper.js.org/#/

[1] https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/commit/8b0ea5b46...

Re: Show HN: AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites

#80
post #77

Great! I don't have an /about or /ideas page, but I do have a /now and a /uses page. https://gurudas.dev I currently only have a short blurb on my landing homepage instead of a full /about page because I struggle with anxiety when trying to describe myself and my journey so far (also impostor syndrome). I like the /ideas page too, but I may not end up finishing ideas if I get my dopamine fix early by publishing them…

That's fine, good that we index all three page types.

I'm wishing you all the best in San Jose! :)

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