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Shown by benjlang on May 30, 2018. Click the card to turn it over.

39points

19comments

#890of 2,155 in 2018

Top 42%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.

Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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Clean design
From 1 comment
- Clean design. Making my way through the list, my only complaint about the site is the inability to open each page in a new tab (middle click / right click -> open in new tab).…
  blinger on HN
Some useful tools listed, such as PDQ and PRTG
From 1 comment
- Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM,…
  ocdtrekkie on HN

Tools listed are not suited to all IT environments; too many Mac and cloud-focused picks
From 1 comment
- I wouldn't trust... most of these... in an IT environment. There's a few gems in there, but IT is such a wide field and the most key element is that you need solutions that fit…
  ocdtrekkie on HN
Site showed an insecure certificate warning, since fixed
From 2 comments
- I gotta admit, the very fist thing I noticed was the "This content is not secure" cert warning in the URL bar.
  jpwgarrison on HN
- Fixed!
  benjlang on HN
Scrolling issues on iOS
From 2 comments
- Yeah, I saw that. After scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page. Have you tested using this page on iOS?
  bradknowles on HN
- Yeah, I've seen some scrolling issues which need to be fixed. Anything else you saw?
  benjlang on HN

Add more advanced filtering by needs
From 2 comments
- I wouldn't trust... most of these... in an IT environment. There's a few gems in there, but IT is such a wide field and the most key element is that you need solutions that fit…
  ocdtrekkie on HN
- Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM,…
  ocdtrekkie on HN
Allow opening pages in new tabs
From 1 comment
- Clean design. Making my way through the list, my only complaint about the site is the inability to open each page in a new tab (middle click / right click -> open in new tab).…
  blinger on HN
Add a forum for discussion
From 1 comment
- So, where is the forum for discussing these tools and making suggestions?
  bradknowles on HN

Which tools are compliant with PCI or HIPAA requirements
From 1 comment
- I wouldn't trust... most of these... in an IT environment. There's a few gems in there, but IT is such a wide field and the most key element is that you need solutions that fit…
  ocdtrekkie on HN

PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory
From 1 comment
- Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM,…
  ocdtrekkie on HN
PRTG network monitoring
From 1 comment
- Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM,…
  ocdtrekkie on HN
Chef
From 1 comment
- Ahh, right. Enterprisey Windows stuff. The stuff that I have spent my entire career avoiding at all possible costs. Yeah, you definitely have different answers for these spaces…
  bradknowles on HN