A set of standard document templates
Productivity
document templates
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
8 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.42.
Idea: 6 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful collection; links to the basis of each template are appreciated
From 1 comment
I particularly like the links to the basis of each template in the various sections.
acidburnNSA on HN
Idea could grow into an awesome-style list
From 1 comment
This could grow into an awesome-document-templates list..
madc on HN
Objections
Unclear how often one needs these templates
From 1 comment
>I am tired of trying to google them every time I need them This is cool, but how many times in ones life does one need these?
ozofsound on HN
Requests
Add developer-oriented templates such as readmes, pull requests, code of conduct and testing
From 1 comment
i actually wrote that down as side project idea yesterday! glad to see someone doing it. i have a different set of documents in mind though. my list is more developer oriented.…
blondin on HN
Add legal document templates
From 1 comment
This is very cool! Would love to see a set of template legal documents on there too someday, something like Basecamp's https://github.com/basecamp/policies
rococode on HN
Add postmortem and incident report templates
From 1 comment
- Post-mortem - Incident report - Scheduled down time
nicwest on HN
Provide templates in Markdown or as nested lists
From 2 comments
Nice one, could probably convert it to a Markdown format as well.
kostarelo on HNMuch of it would work as a nested list. (org-mode user here :))
anotheryou on HN
Questions
What order of operations should the product templates follow?
From 1 comment
Thank you for putting this together. I'm wondering if you were to use these, what the order of operations for a product would be? Maybe Product Opportunity Assessment > Product…
oth001 on HN
Alternatives named
Good Docs Project
From 1 comment
Hi Kostas, Great idea to pull this together. A bunch of us tech writers have had a similar idea, and have banded together to create the key standard templates for tech projects -…
cameronshorter on HN
Basecamp policies repository
From 1 comment
This is very cool! Would love to see a set of template legal documents on there too someday, something like Basecamp's https://github.com/basecamp/policies
rococode on HN
Embedded Artistry templates
From 1 comment
i actually wrote that down as side project idea yesterday! glad to see someone doing it. i have a different set of documents in mind though. my list is more developer oriented.…
blondin on HN
Coda
From 1 comment
Can anyone comment on Coda? First time I've seen it - looks pretty cool.
F_J_H on HN