AboutIdeasNow
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How HN took it
34 positive, 44 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 14 critical, out of 93 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Execution: 6 for, 12 againstIdea: 17 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good concept and useful discovery of people and ideas
From 3 comments
Excellent work. This is a perfect demonstration of how valuable content curation can be, paired with an excellent presentation and user experience. You made it much easier to…
peter_vukovic on HNthis is amazing, so many people struggling with coming up with cool ideas haha
Beefin on HNLike others said, I love it. This is good way to connect people by connecting their independent sites.
desireco42 on HN
Semantic search works well
From 1 comment
The semantic search actually works really well - https://aboutideasnow.com/?q=data+journalism ?q=data+journalism gave me a bunch of interesting people thinking about data…
simonw on HN
Objections
Non-personal sites such as company sites are included
From 1 comment
Last I checked bleepingcomputer, ifixit, vibilagare.se, psyche.co and libreboot.org aren't personal sites. None of those actually have an /about page, yet your site says they…
KomoD on HN
Incorrect 1969 update dates
From 2 comments
A lot of cards say "Updated December 31, 1969", what date are you all using to populate that?
city41 on HNSeeing some obviously bad dates: “Dec 31, 1969”
isuckatcoding on HN
Broken or wrong about/ideas page detection, many 404s
From 3 comments
Last I checked bleepingcomputer, ifixit, vibilagare.se, psyche.co and libreboot.org aren't personal sites. None of those actually have an /about page, yet your site says they…
KomoD on HNI added my site and received the following response: > josephriddle.com/ideas without update time I looked into the source code to determine how it's finding the update time.…
joeriddles on HNI tried to add https://jakeseliger.com, and I got an error saying that there is no "about" page. But if you look at https://jakeseliger.com/about, there is in fact one!
jseliger on HN
Search results sometimes irrelevant
From 2 comments
This is a great idea. Just a quick feedback: when I search for "llm", I got quite random results.
lqcfcjx on HNFuzzy search? “gaza” search returned results without that string or anything close.
quickthrower2 on HN
Requests
Show all /ideas posts chronologically without a filter
From 2 comments
I like the site, but I wish I could see all the /ideas posts chronologically without applying a filter
spencerflem on HNI first thought it would be showing all ideas, about, and now simultaneously, but then noticed all the cards only had /ideas, then I thought I had to do url.com/now only to find…
panarchy on HN
Add summaries of about pages
From 1 comment
Since I see you're using GPT already, it might be nice to include a summary of any about page for a domain with the non-about results. That way I can see a little something about…
netghost on HN
Support If-Modified-Since headers
From 1 comment
It would be nice if it also supported the If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since precondition headers.
plumeria on HN
Questions
How are submissions reviewed for spam?
From 1 comment
Are submissioms manually reviewed by a human? Otherwise it can be abused for spam. Is it reindexed from time to time? Say, the submission looks okay, and then they change the…
kgeist on HN
Does it read JSON-LD dates?
From 1 comment
Does it also look at JSON+LD?
nicbou on HN
Alternatives named
nownownow.com
From 1 comment
Very cool. I've got all the /now pages from https://nownownow.com/ in my PostgreSQL database (I'm the creator/admin of it) so feel free to contact me if you'd like a more direct…
sivers on HN
uses.tech
From 1 comment
Also /uses[1]. 1. https://uses.tech/
INTPenis on HN
personalsit.es
From 1 comment
awesome-personal-websites lists
From 1 comment
This is an awesome awesome list! Thank you for adding /about and /ideas! It also reminded me to have a proper look for awesome-personal-sites or similar, and there are a few:…
louisbarclay on HN