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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by nindalf »

themulticaster wrote: post #74
Aachen wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This "it's the original title" policy that gets thrown around a lot seems counter-productive to me by now. Someone will post an actual description of what's significant about a release, but then it gets edited to "ObscureName 1.2" which leaves you wondering: what is this? Should I care? Is it a software tool, a hardware product, can I eat it? Is it even news, a significant milestone that makes this a viable product t…

Well, the original title policy really is an official HN rule. On the other hand, I totally agree that titles consisting only of ObscureName are not very informative. From the current front page: 1. "Bernie Madoff Dies in Prison" - who's Bernie Madoff? 2. "Deno 1.9" - what's Deno? Is it edible? 3. "Yamauchi No.10 Family Office" - I have absolutely no idea what to expect Instead, why not write: 1. "Bernard Madoff, Mas…

What's a runtime? What's JavaScript? I'm being facetious because "of course I can google that", but then I could google Deno too.

Let's talk about how people use HN in practice on titles they don't understand. They open the thread and piece together context from the top few comments. And that's fine, it works.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by kowlo »

zerof1l wrote: post #78
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…

No need to install browser extension. You can go to app.grammarly.com paste your text and spell-check it. Works great.

No doubt it works great - but I'm not convinced this addresses the claim that it's "essentially a key logger". With your suggestion, they're still getting the data.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by zertrin »

dspillett wrote: post #75
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…

As an alternative there is LanguageTool[†], for which you can run your own server so the data isn't given to an extra party at all. We've been using it in [DayJob] for a while, and I use it at home too, and it does a decent job. From my relatively experience of Grammarly (I had an account a couple of years ago) a self-hosted instance of LT is slightly better than Grammarly "free" but doesn't have the extra analysis o…

I do this too (running it in a docker container on my server to mutualise usage across several devices) and it suffice for catching the main errors and typos. Quite happy with it.

Can indeed be recommended as substitute to grammarly free.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by btilly »

erikbye wrote: post #73

So what? List posts are about the least creative, effortless and worthless content on the Internet. The bar for what is considered achievements is constantly lowered. HN no longer gets interesting submissions, just drivel.

At least list posts are a step above pointless complaints.

If you think that HN needs better submissions, you can submit things yourself. Or spent time looking through new submissions and voting up the ones that you like. Then show up and leave thought-provoking comments on articles.

All are more productive than complaining about someone creating yet another list that was interesting enough for thousands of people to star.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by ahepp »

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.

It's such a lame hustle to market your free widget, then complain that nobody paid for it.

It's literally a con to pull on tourists

Not saying you are personally doing this, since you specifically said you're not complaining, just my feelings on the matter.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by zelphirkalt »

WJW wrote: post #94
zelphirkalt wrote: post #27

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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 f…

OK, point taken, that only because anyone puts time into something, does not mean it is a reason to pay for it.

I disagree with the second point though. In the end people need to put food on the table and I for one am glad, if people can do so by doing things they enjoy and that add value to society. If I like some project and I see, that it was only enabled by people putting forward effort, even though they are not paid to do so initially, then I often think about supporting them. My idea of a good future is, that more people can add value to society not in the jobs they do not like to do, but instead in the projects they would like to do and can live from that. I don't think it is a small case. In fact I think this is what should happen more often, so that we get away from a model, where everything is measured in how much it costs and towards a model, in which people show how much value things brought them, by supporting creators.

I think this would help reducing gaps in society. Someone who can not afford to give a lot can still make use of things, while someone who can give a lot is able to support more people.

It reaches into every area of our lives. Currently we have social media networks, where the users are the product sold. Instead we could have social media, where users, who can afford to support, give in order to keep the service alive and running. There are already people, who crowd-finance their Mastodon instances and work (time working on) those and similar projects.

Maybe this is something that is quite far from our reality right now, but at least I am seeing some cases of it in projects, that I support.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by dvt »

kakkan wrote: post #42
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.

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...

Honestly, you should charge actual money for this.

Not a bad idea at all, plus the templates you already have are pretty neat. I could see applications w.r.t. professional development or even marketing to product people with the purpose of simplifying product roadmaps (and sharing with C-levels, etc.).

You have something here, screw donations. Free users suck anyway; my free project[1] has ~1500 MAU and I kind of want to stop working on it because the entitlement is unreal.

[1] https://www.lofi.rocks/

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by Shadonototro »

Black101 wrote: post #79
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.

> This is mostly janitorial work with zero coding not everything in life is coding?

it shadows the real coding works on github

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by eyelidlessness »

Aachen wrote: post #25
nindalf wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the title of the original post and it's factually correct. What would your edited version be?

This "it's the original title" policy that gets thrown around a lot seems counter-productive to me by now. Someone will post an actual description of what's significant about a release, but then it gets edited to "ObscureName 1.2" which leaves you wondering: what is this? Should I care? Is it a software tool, a hardware product, can I eat it? Is it even news, a significant milestone that makes this a viable product t…

The contravening point is my pet peeve on this site. Any title that starts with “How” gets that word edited out, presumably to mitigate clickbaitness, but it changes the way an article might be perceived in a way that makes it less interesting for familiar subject matter. “I did x with y” doesn’t much register to someone who knows y. But how they did it might.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by grawprog »

ausbah wrote: post #55

cool I guess, but this just another "list of X" repo with a bit of scrapping code behind it. I'm sure it's useful to a degree for some, but I don't see the practical value of something like this

Not only that, but I remember when this was on HN not long ago, the list is made up of random things. Some are full pieces of software, many of the 'alternatives' are actually just front ends with limited functionality or wrappers around websites or APIs.

The list never really makes it clear. I also remember some of the links were broken and overall it was pretty pointless.

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