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Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

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Not loading for me right now. The web really needs the equivalent of an app store. Search engines don't do apps justice. They don't have enough content to index and are often difficult to crawl anyway, being JS-heavy. Chrome Web Store is a good start, but a place with reviews and ratings of browser-independent, no-install, interactive websites would be excellent.

That's a similar direction I'm headed in for http://www.iwaat.com. I think you'll see more sites like http://thetoolbox.cc being created since searching for web apps from google.com is painful. And I can confirm from experience that most web apps have a miniscule amount of content to index, especially compared to blogs and other sites where content-centric sites. However, when you combine a web app's on site content with relevant content from the rest of the web (social media, news, etc), there's enough data to build a halfway decent search engine.

The tough part of your vision is the store. Every web app has their own way of processing payments that would be tough to tie into a single site for an experience similar to Apple's App Store. Chrome Web Store would probably be best positioned to tackle this.

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

#22

Really sorry for the downtime… I thought my WordPress install was ready to go, but for some reason the caching plugin was not activated. So everything came crashing down under the traffic, and then I was unable to log back in the admin to enable caching. I'm now talking with the PHPFog guys to add resources to the server, but it's taking some time… The lesson here: never EVER run WordPress without caching. Triple che…

And now that it's working I can't edit the title anymore to remove "under maintenance".

Oh well, you can't win them all I guess…

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

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post #5

A couple more: http://www.favicon.cc/ http://www.stripegenerator.com/ I don't think I've ever actually used the stripe generator, but there should definitely be at least one favicon site on there.

Thought of a few more things to add:

http://validator.w3.org/

One of the browser testing tools: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/07/a-dozen-cross-bro...

http://www.pythonregex.com/

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

#26

Not loading for me right now. The web really needs the equivalent of an app store. Search engines don't do apps justice. They don't have enough content to index and are often difficult to crawl anyway, being JS-heavy. Chrome Web Store is a good start, but a place with reviews and ratings of browser-independent, no-install, interactive websites would be excellent.

OneForty.com (before being acquihired by HubSpot) tried to do this for Twitter apps - which were often just as you described: JS-Heavy, not terribly crawl able and they had what seemed a hard time of it.

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

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Is Wordpress (along with a professional theme) the fastest route to a site as visually appealing as this one? In other words, what would other HN readers have chosen in order to deploy this content?

[1] http://designerthemes.com/themes/construct/

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

#29

I would love the ability to create my own toolbox based off of the sites you link. The basic idea would be I login, select the sites that I use and then can see them via my account, or link other people via citricsquid.thetoolbox.cc or something. For now I can load up the page and scroll through and remember which are useful with relative ease, but if you get to the point where there are hundreds or thousands of tool…

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's a little outside the scope of the site. Plus, I have no clue how I'd even do that with a WordPress install…

But you're right that the site will be hard to browse once there's a lot of apps, so I'm planning better navigation and filtering features (for example, sort by most used).

Re: Show HN: A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

#30

Are you taking suggestions? I'd love to see Bookshrink [0] and Who Will I Know There? [1] on the list :) [0] http://bookshrink.com [1] http://wwikt-peterldowns.dotcloud.com

Bookshrink is a very interesting concept, but I'm really trying to feature things that are useful and practical for a majority number of people, not just "interesting" sites. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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