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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

Aachen wrote: post #17
kuu wrote: post #11

40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.

Well, from the post: > Last month (Mar'21), I made a simple project It's not like anyone's been using the product long-term or as if individual users incur a significant cost, and the author hasn't been asking to help with hosting costs or anything. I don't usually donate right upon finding a random fun project, unless I incurred costs (by doing a significant computation or if it sent a number of SMSes or so) for the…

Anecdotal, but I have a niche calculator SPA that fluctuates between 1k-10k visitors per month. Most visitors are frequent fliers.

My donation button (top center of page) has only been used once over the span of 5 years, even though it gets praised across various forums and communities within the niche.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by kakkan »

resurge wrote: post #48
kakkan wrote: post #42

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I got 100k visits for my project https://reallyconfused.co/ and 0 donations because my donation link was broken and I noticed it too late...

Hey, I think some other stuff might be broken too. When I open this link I get a bunch of errors in the console: https://reallyconfused.co/roadmap/from-c#-to-asp.net-develop... This was also the first course in the list, so not exactly a good first impression. The console lists this: https://pastebin.com/KQqjdCc8

Thanks for pointing them out! I'm taking the site through some changes so these bugs are very recent. When I released it, it was pretty much bug-free.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by distances »

dbrgn wrote: post #66
jerrygoyal wrote: post #43

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author here. lol, Grammarly didn't pick this. (En is not my native language). Thanks for informing, fixed it.

Note that Grammarly is essentially a keylogger. The content you're typing gets sent to their servers. It doesn't work like your typical client-side spellchecker. Their business model may be OK, it's just something that you need to be aware of (and a lot of people I've talked to aren't). From the privacy policy: --- We collect this information as you use the Site, Software, and/or Services: - User Content. This consis…

I hope everyone assumes this by default of any web forms. I always wince a little when a colleague uses some random website to pretty-print json or encode base64. Great way to leak company internal stuff.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by WJW »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #27
atxbcp wrote: post #19

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Zero hosting cost, zero added value, why would you donate anything for a project like this ?

Someone put their time into creating it? Also perhaps because it is useful to people and if we ever hope to keep good content coming, without having to suffer through endless ads, we should support, what we deem to be good content.

> Someone put their time into creating it?

This is not in itself a reason to pay for stuff.

> Also perhaps because it is useful to people and if we ever hope to keep good content coming, without having to suffer through endless ads, we should support, what we deem to be good content.

This sentence seems self-contradicting in relation to the article existing. Assuming we think that the project from the article is in fact good, it follows that good content is already coming even if we don't pay for it.

A small case could be made that perhaps this was an experiment by the author and we want to reward this to create positive reinforcement, but an equally valid argument could be made that paying for this type of aggregator content will create a mass of buzzfeed style "list of awesome X" aggregation websites. Monetization tends to create perverse incentives, after all.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by jkaptur »

distances wrote: post #93
dbrgn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note that Grammarly is essentially a keylogger. The content you're typing gets sent to their servers. It doesn't work like your typical client-side spellchecker. Their business model may be OK, it's just something that you need to be aware of (and a lot of people I've talked to aren't). From the privacy policy: --- We collect this information as you use the Site, Software, and/or Services: - User Content. This consis…

I hope everyone assumes this by default of any web forms. I always wince a little when a colleague uses some random website to pretty-print json or encode base64. Great way to leak company internal stuff.

I built a (diff) app that doesn't, but I have no idea how to promote that without making people even more suspicious.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by sergiotapia »

plibither8 wrote: post #16
jimmyed wrote: post #7

Not sure how anyone can feel proud of "projects" like these. This is mostly janitorial work with zero coding, made viral by hordes of wannabe frontend devs. I wouldn't mention this project on my resume.

> hordes of wannabe frontend devs Classic HN gatekeeping, this is so unnecessarily degrading. Everyone starts somewhere, and like it or not, making clones is a very good way to learn about the basics of web dev. If they make a good clone and want to share it and get feedback, what's the harm?

You misread his comment. He's bemoaning wannaba devs creating these readme "projects" not the owners of the actual clone projects that actually do require programming skills.

I agree with him, these readme compilation things are just dev.to bait

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by blt »

jkaptur wrote: post #95
distances wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope everyone assumes this by default of any web forms. I always wince a little when a colleague uses some random website to pretty-print json or encode base64. Great way to leak company internal stuff.

I built a (diff) app that doesn't, but I have no idea how to promote that without making people even more suspicious.

People who care a lot about protecting their data probably won't use it anyway. Even if your intentions are pure, your implementation could have a security vulnerability. It makes a nice bullet point feature but I'm not sure it has much promotional value beyond that.
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