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Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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This is a refreshing fun project. What are your plans for this site if you don't mind me asking?

Thanks! It started as a conversation between a friend mostly off the back off /r/battlestations and how I'd love to be able to see more of peoples setups.

Initial steps where just to throw something together to allow people to upload multiple setups and view others.

Next steps on the roadmap

- Multiple image upload support

- Like setups

- Build collections out of setups

- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)

- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)

Later later steps would probably be allowing the user to build collections out of popular products that get uploaded.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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The battlestations subreddit has a lot of really epic setups.

Most of those I saw were pretty much the same. Towers with windows and those ugly LED wall triangles, often aiming for a "vaporwave"/CGA look.

There was definitely more variety when beige cases were the rule and you had to paint and dremel things yourselves…

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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Something's up with the retrieval of images. Getting errors (402 status code) from Firebase storage / Google. — EDIT: seems to be fixed!

Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas.

Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore):

- describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc.

- describing setup components by selecting items from a parts list

- adding benchmark results

- filtering / searching setups by varying properties

- breaking down components even further.. there's a huge community around mechanical keyboards for example, these come in all kinds of shapes.. users may have desires along the lines of: "I'd like to see setups with wireless 60% keyboards"

- listing similar setups ("if you like this, you might like..")

- capturing setup updates (and displaying VCS-style diffs :-))

- recently updated systems

- in the same vein: build logs

- image annotations

- up- / downvoting

- comments

Fun stuff to come up with.

Re: Show HN: Workstation – Showcase Your Setup

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post #17

Something's up with the retrieval of images. Getting errors (402 status code) from Firebase storage / Google. — EDIT: seems to be fixed! Fun project though! What are your plans with it? Like to hear about your ideas. Some – unsolicited – suggestions (feel free to ignore): - describing (primary) usage(s) – e.g. workstation, gaming, web dev, music, audio, etc. - describing setup components by selecting items from a par…

These are great suggestions, thank you and it's exactly what I've posted it for tbh - It feels like this project could have endless possibilities but I also want to know what others care about too.

My next steps (I posted below but happy to post here too)

- Multiple image upload support

- Like setups

- Build collections out of setups

- Search (tags, product names, setup titles etc)

- Tagging products on setups (like how Facebook does but you know, respect peoples data etc)

I think after that or even during, I'll need to definitely come up with a more structured roadmap.

Again, thank you for the suggestions!

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