We Use That
Productivity
software stack directory
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
13 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.48.
Idea: 8 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful collection for developers; good idea and clean design.
From 3 comments
Second that! My huge frustration with usesthis was to manually note down the software people used, since you're designing the same idea, definitely get this from teh start. The…
Jun8 on HNThis is similar to what was done with developers, right? The one thing I wished that had -- as well as WeUseThat -- is actual entities per question. For example, for Pulse's…
danso on HNI love this kind of stuff. Keep it coming!
kgosser on HN
Interviews explaining why tools were chosen are valuable.
From 1 comment
I especially like the interviews that explain why they chose one service over another (even if their views may be incorrect or skewed). My favorite part, however, is the "What…
kodablah on HN
Objections
Unclear from the title and front page that it lists companies rather than stacks.
From 3 comments
It's not clear at first that the things we're looking at are the companies, not the elements of the stacks in use. Many of them are themselves parts of other peoples stacks. I'm…
ehutch79 on HNWhat in the world is this? Is there actually a start-up that exists to list what technologies it uses?
danielweber on HNIndeed. The incredibly vague titles on HN combined with vague articles are a source of frustration to me. I thought this was just TechCrunch where you get listed via git, but you…
danielweber on HN
Logos are too large on the front page.
From 2 comments
This is similar to what was done with developers, right? The one thing I wished that had -- as well as WeUseThat -- is actual entities per question. For example, for Pulse's…
danso on HNSecond that! My huge frustration with usesthis was to manually note down the software people used, since you're designing the same idea, definitely get this from teh start. The…
Jun8 on HN
Requests
Structured data per entity so tools can be compared and filtered.
From 2 comments
This is similar to what was done with developers, right? The one thing I wished that had -- as well as WeUseThat -- is actual entities per question. For example, for Pulse's…
danso on HNNice... was looking for something like this Is the data going to be available in a structured way? It think of trend tables, use counts, graphs, you know...
eranation on HN
Include non-startup companies.
From 1 comment
Why only startups? Wouldn't it be interesting to know what non-startups use? I can see how it wouldn't be all that useful to have a full stack of Oracle and Peoplesoft, but a lot…
jedberg on HN
Cover more than software, such as hardware and services.
From 1 comment
Second that! My huge frustration with usesthis was to manually note down the software people used, since you're designing the same idea, definitely get this from teh start. The…
Jun8 on HN
Questions
Will the data be available in a structured form?
From 1 comment
Nice... was looking for something like this Is the data going to be available in a structured way? It think of trend tables, use counts, graphs, you know...
eranation on HN
Alternatives named
The Setup / usesthis.com
From 2 comments
Yes, it's similar to The Setup (http://usesthis.com/), which we're big fans of. We will definitely do this kind categorization but wanted to get a bit more data first and also…
daniel_levine on HNDon't know if you are already aware of http://usesthis.com. Some of the developers they interview get pretty in depth with their setups.
bti on HN
bagcheck.com
From 1 comment
Something more like this? https://bagcheck.com/bag/382-bagcheck-technology
spullara on HN
whohostswhere.com
From 1 comment
also like http://www.whohostswhere.com/
kvar on HN