Show HN: Find recommendations from good people

Post by gits1225 » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

amadeuspagel wrote: post #39

A few ideas: - Link the name to a list with all the recommendations by that person, use the date for a link to the place where the recommendation was made (using the date for a permalink is convention). - Link tags. - Show everyone who recommended something and sort by how many people recommended it. (For instance The Pragmatic Programmer is recommended by Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge and Jeff Atwood.) - Use Amazon Affi…

Post by kaybe » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 4:37 PM UTC

gits1225 wrote: post #24

forapurpose wrote: post #9

I truly hope it works out well for you. My personal response: * I don't know what is meant by "good" people; I'd choose a different term. * My impression is recommendations from "famous" people, which don't interest me personally. Famous people aren't necessarily smart and unless a topic is in their specific domain, they have no more to contribute that the average person. (Personally, I find the idolization of famous…

All valid points which I too am pondering on but don't have clear answers. I checked your profile but couldn't find an email to contact you. I'd love to discuss details once I have written down my thoughts.

Post by docker_up » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

eganist wrote: post #34

gits1225 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uncompromising focus on people. I don't mind if the site is stagnant.

Plan on taking investors? Because that last sentence might make it a challenge, much as I agree with it.

Post by gits1225 » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 4:58 PM UTC

midnightmonster wrote: post #46

I suggest adding zebra striping to the list. It's hard to follow some of the short titles over to the names.

Post by gits1225 » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

aaavl2821 wrote: post #48

really cool, i especially like the product (ie non-book) recommendations. having a curated list of products isnt something i'd seen before, while there are plenty of reading lists. your book list is really great but for me i was most pleasantly surprised seeing the non-books