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Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

jcoder wrote: post #21
muellerwolfram wrote: post #8

I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io

prtfl.io is much more polished—it shows that it wasn't built in a weekend. Please launch soon! After looking at prtflio.eu, I wouldn't worry too much about brand dilution—it's not even in your league.

prtfl.io isn't reflexive.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by eps »

josh2600 wrote: post #35
jcoder wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

prtfl.io is much more polished—it shows that it wasn't built in a weekend. Please launch soon! After looking at prtflio.eu, I wouldn't worry too much about brand dilution—it's not even in your league.

Hey, I get your point, but you can't compare something that isn't launched to something that is. How many times does Paul Graham have to say "just launch"? Launch and iterate, iterate and then iterate some more. Talking about brand dilution on an unlaunched product is a moot point to say the least. I'm not taking sides about what happened here, it seems murky at best, but you can't compare an idea to a product.

To every Paul Graham that says "just launch" there is Steve Jobs that scrapes nearly done products, restarts from scratch and ends up releasing stunning shit. Let me see your "launch and iterate" do that.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by eps »

muellerwolfram wrote: post #8

I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io

Mind him not, Mueller. As the other dude said - it's the execution that matters and this particular execution is nothing to write home about. It'll be forgotten once it's off the HN front page.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by bdunn »

cvursache wrote: post #30
bbx wrote: post #11

I'm not a developer but a designer. What do developers showcase in their portfolio? How do you describe the projects you've worked on? What is a recruiter looking for when visiting your website?

Sorry to point this out, but you sound more like a recruiter than a designer. I'm sure people would answer your questions if you would ask them a little bit less bluntly. My answers to your questions are: 1. I showcase the projects I've been working on 2. I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves (README, code comments, etc.) 3. Someone very skilled to make them good mo…

I don't describe the projects, just point a link to them, they should describe themselves...

Can't disagree more.

If I'm hiring a freelance developer, I want to be assured of their "here's my problem, help me come up with a solution" abilities. Simply linking to an app they build for a client or a Github project doesn't necessarily tell me everything I want to know. Why does this exist, and what problem was it trying to solve? And did it end up solving said problem, if so — how?

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by jcoder »

josh2600 wrote: post #35
jcoder wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

prtfl.io is much more polished—it shows that it wasn't built in a weekend. Please launch soon! After looking at prtflio.eu, I wouldn't worry too much about brand dilution—it's not even in your league.

Hey, I get your point, but you can't compare something that isn't launched to something that is. How many times does Paul Graham have to say "just launch"? Launch and iterate, iterate and then iterate some more. Talking about brand dilution on an unlaunched product is a moot point to say the least. I'm not taking sides about what happened here, it seems murky at best, but you can't compare an idea to a product.

prtfl.io is obviously building a thoughtful product with the goal that people will get value out of it. prtflio.eu did the equivalent of putting a file upload widget in front of s3 and calling it flickrcom.eu.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by AnthonyJoseph »

eps wrote: post #42
josh2600 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I get your point, but you can't compare something that isn't launched to something that is. How many times does Paul Graham have to say "just launch"? Launch and iterate, iterate and then iterate some more. Talking about brand dilution on an unlaunched product is a moot point to say the least. I'm not taking sides about what happened here, it seems murky at best, but you can't compare an idea to a product.

To every Paul Graham that says "just launch" there is Steve Jobs that scrapes nearly done products, restarts from scratch and ends up releasing stunning shit. Let me see your "launch and iterate" do that.

For every dollar that a "Steve Jobs" type produces, 10 are produced by people "launch and iterate". Business is about making good decisions as often as possible, which the latter methodology seems to do better.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by zakx »

onli wrote: post #36
tjosten wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I never indented to offend him or anyone else. I'm waiting for his app to launch and when it's great I'm gonna use it, that's it. But for the meantime, I build my own thing and as I mostly do, I set it free to others.

May very well be, but you sure could've choosen at least a different name. And a design of your own wouldn't have hurt.

I think using Bootstrap pretty much fits to the "i built this in a weekend" idea. He could always come up with a better design later.

Re: Show HN: My Weekend Project: One-Click Developer Portfolio Website

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Post by [deleted] »

tobiasbischoff wrote: post #33
muellerwolfram wrote: post #8

I don't know how to react, but at least I want to say this: the name and the layout remind me a little too much about http://www.prtfl.io/muellerwolfram/projects I'm not sure what to say, I mean, it's a free web, you can do whatever you want, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste, especially because i know that you knew about prtfl.io

Let me quote movie-zuckerberg here: "You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook." Execution, dear Wolfram, is the single-most important thing in our industry today. I personally have a shit ton of things I'm thinking about or that I might want to do some time. All worthless, until someone executes on them. Tim…

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