Show HN: Stack Parts - a way to find possible parts for your stack

http://stackparts.com/

so, when i worked at google there was a great internal webpage that listed all the various parts and systems one could use to build something. i've always wanted something like that for the real world, so here it is.

the idea is basically to index widely used and good stack parts so that people can figure out what they need to build their applications.

this is still very rough. we're still working on figuring out the metadata, how to display it, and how to link it. in addition, some of the metadata is wrong as we evolve how to describe things.

how it works: tornado, yaml, github.

i'm interested. are you going to track the results over time? and/or metrics around usage?

i'd be interested in all of the above.

Awesome! Been wanting to build something like this for a while. One of the things the might be useful is the notion of which components of a stack are the most mature.

I can see the value in something like this, especially for more novice web developers who may not know the terms to search for in Google or StackOverflow to find what they need.

I understand it's rough, but here are something of the things I was expecting to see while I was browsing around:

- Some "category" pages, like dbm, are missing definitions. It would be great if definitions were present on every category page.

- I really like that some category pages include a curated list of articles that compare the different options within this class of products. This is exactly what I search for when researching new technologies.

- It'd be nice to have links to the Stackoverflow "tag" page on individual technology pages. For example, the MySQL page could link to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mysql

I could also see this information being shown in a more visual way. It'd be pretty interesting to allow companies to create an account and build a profile of what their web stack looks like. Maybe something similar to how GuitarGeek.com shows the rigs of famous guitarists? I'd be willing to bet that most web stacks would look more like Eddie Van Halen's setup (http://guitargeek.com/rigview/258/) rather than Angus Young's (http://guitargeek.com/rigview/312/) :)

yeah. although the main issue here is that the set of possible stacks ends up being a graph, so that's harder to represent. so it is difficult.

i bet the vast majority of stacks are still LAMP... but i agree with everything else.