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Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by NoahECampbell »

0xbeefcab wrote: post #10
NoahECampbell wrote: post #8

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That was something I had wanted to do but couldnt figure out how to do right away so went with this slightly worse approach as a temporary thing to just get something out there, but that totally makes sense and would definitely improve the UX

I have very little webdev experience so my advice might be completely useless, but some google searches show either long polling or websockets as a solution to this problem. Either way, good job

You and me both, but I totally agree that it would be better if it was done asynchronously, either by default or as an option for the user so they can still do other things on the site

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by graypegg »

NoahECampbell wrote: post #6
graypegg wrote: post #5

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I think even just some screenshots and a blurb about what it is would be helpful on the home page. Your logged out UI should operate as the pitch for the product normally. Like jamisonbryant said, people want some assurance about what they’re getting in exchange for their personal info and a direct line to their email.

Totally understandable, Ill do that here then, which is what you're suggesting right? Or do you mean just explain it on the login page?

Either-or of course, but a HN post is pretty short lived. You’ll get lots of mileage out of a good demo/pitch on your app’s page from people just coming across it.

Took a quick peek at your repo’s README, under features you have “Next.js”, cutting your teeth on some marketing is worth it! Think about what makes you want to use a tool, It’s probably not the framework it was built with.

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by NoahECampbell »

graypegg wrote: post #12
NoahECampbell wrote: post #6

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Totally understandable, Ill do that here then, which is what you're suggesting right? Or do you mean just explain it on the login page?

Either-or of course, but a HN post is pretty short lived. You’ll get lots of mileage out of a good demo/pitch on your app’s page from people just coming across it. Took a quick peek at your repo’s README, under features you have “Next.js”, cutting your teeth on some marketing is worth it! Think about what makes you want to use a tool, It’s probably not the framework it was built with.

Yeah I'm definitely trying to take advantage of that and adding it to my resume, since I obviously wont make something perfect, hell probably not even great, on my first go, but it was a learning experience and a way to make myself more appealing for future employers

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by graypegg »

NoahECampbell wrote: post #13
graypegg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either-or of course, but a HN post is pretty short lived. You’ll get lots of mileage out of a good demo/pitch on your app’s page from people just coming across it. Took a quick peek at your repo’s README, under features you have “Next.js”, cutting your teeth on some marketing is worth it! Think about what makes you want to use a tool, It’s probably not the framework it was built with.

Yeah I'm definitely trying to take advantage of that and adding it to my resume, since I obviously wont make something perfect, hell probably not even great, on my first go, but it was a learning experience and a way to make myself more appealing for future employers

You can be less formal if you want here! :) it’s not a job interview, we’re all excited you’re making something!

The bent for this space tends to be towards start ups, so expect some advice towards how to market/best feature something you made, vs what would look best on a resume.

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by graypegg »

Messed around with it a little. It’s a cool idea! Something to generate the general beats or outline of a story.

For UI, I might suggest something more “inlined” for the prompt screen. You might find some inspiration from outline writing apps like OmniOutliner [0] or emacs’ org-mode. Those will let you move around heading and groups of rows easily. If you could expand a row into multiple heading rows generated by AI, I could see that being really “in flow” for a writer!

You could imagine someone writing a couple details, hitting some key combo that expands it into a few headings, and then they can move around to the heading they want to expand on and start writing in it. They can recursively expand sentences/rows when ever they need to flesh something out.

It’s hard to get keycombos and the feel right, but I think it would be worth it.

[0] https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner/

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by NoahECampbell »

graypegg wrote: post #14
NoahECampbell wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I'm definitely trying to take advantage of that and adding it to my resume, since I obviously wont make something perfect, hell probably not even great, on my first go, but it was a learning experience and a way to make myself more appealing for future employers

You can be less formal if you want here! :) it’s not a job interview, we’re all excited you’re making something! The bent for this space tends to be towards start ups, so expect some advice towards how to market/best feature something you made, vs what would look best on a resume.

Makes sense lol, it's all great advice so far though so I'm pretty happy with the responses and everything. Plus there were some things I hadn't thought much of, like trying to reassure users that I'm not doing anything nefarious with their email when they log in with google.

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by NoahECampbell »

graypegg wrote: post #15

Messed around with it a little. It’s a cool idea! Something to generate the general beats or outline of a story. For UI, I might suggest something more “inlined” for the prompt screen. You might find some inspiration from outline writing apps like OmniOutliner [0] or emacs’ org-mode. Those will let you move around heading and groups of rows easily. If you could expand a row into multiple heading rows generated by AI,…

I'll definitely take a look into that! Always excited to try out a new tool that makes things a bit easier, since trying to style with React can be a bit painful at times hah

Re: Show HN: My first full stack project

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Post by NoahECampbell »

tmitchel2 wrote: post #18

Congrats on releasing something to the world while in your second year . That's a pretty good trajectory you are on

Thanks! I figured that the best thing I could do would be to try and make a full project on my own and have it be a continuous project throughout my summer break, as a way to resemble working continuously on a product for a company in the future.
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