That's really cool! Thanks for making this website, it's absolutely useful, it might save a lot o projects. I can tell that because I have myself posted on Show HN and my submission never made it past the /shownew. Probably because it was not that interesting to HN's audience, but I can imagine how many really cool projects end up buried in there.
Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
61–69 of 69 posts
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#62Very cool. Can I get RSS / Atom for specific topics?
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#63Cool work, missing a "Why Cryptocurrency is Bad" section though
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#64This is very useful, as a frequent HN user, I find myself strolling down the showHN tab quite often, and the current UI doesn't let you go more than 3 pages deep (~5-6 days old posts).
Yeah, it'd be nice to have the archive available.
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#65Show HN used to be one of the awesome things about HN - a real community showcase. It's not like that any more.
As HackerHunt says, /shownew is just a place that awesome new stuff is hidden.
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#66Sorry but, did you really had to use HH? I'm German and that only rings my right extremists alarm bells, because they use that for "Heil Hitler" (fuck them and him) for generations.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14652276 and marked it off-topic.
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#67Those stories would get onto /show and also the front page if they got more upvotes, so it is indeed a curation problem. If you're willing to do the work of rescuing good submissions that the rest of us missed, that's great! I wonder if we could integrate that back into HN somehow.
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#68Hey HN! I'm one of the two developers behind Hackerhunt. As much as I love Hacker News and it's ranking algorithm for the front page news, it has a downside for the Show HN submissions. A lot of cool and useful stuff people have actually made themselves gets lost in /shownew without a real chance to get to the right audience. That's where the idea of a curated and categorised, à-la-Product-hunt, list was born. This i…
for v2 can you make a "no-tech" category? --
i find that those can be the best threads...especially for the non-techy users on HN. nice work!
Re: Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you go about selecting a sample for manual tagging, and how did you decide what tags to end up using?
The samples were selected randomly at the beginning. Tags were thought up on the go, trying to generalize into broader categories. After the initial tagging, we counted the number of samples for each category and grouped similar underrepresented tags together + added additional samples for tagging that could go into the smaller categories just by filtering those who matched specific keywords and further hand-picking…
For those of us in industries at the fringes (but still of interest) to HN, want to have an 'Other' category? :-) We make scientific/genetic software - and I'm not sure where we might have fit in your sidebar.
Getting to the front page via 'Show HN' was very helpful to us. It'd be nice (for others too) to be able to both replicate that success, and soften the blow when you get a grand total of 2 upvotes.