My Weekend Hack
Learning and science
programming reference browser
SHOW HN2013
286points
80comments
#36of 1,739 in 2013
Top 3%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
23 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 13 mixed, 15 critical, out of 63 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 12 for, 1 againstExecution: 3 for, 8 againstDesign: 1 for, 6 against
The thread, comment by comment
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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What HN said
What people liked
Useful way to learn from top Stack Overflow content
From 3 comments
This is amazing, nice work! In 5 minutes, I learned two useful things about Java and Object Orientation :D. Definitely a useful tool just for exploring SO questions and answers.…
zkoh on HNSometimes, I find myself surfing in StackExchange looking for the most upvoted questions or tags of each site. Using Stack-Ed I think it will be easier to see the best…
yamaneko on HNAs a beginning ruby on rails programmer this site was really helpful. It makes expert knowledge from stack overflow easily accessible. Keep up the good work.
AtTheLast on HN
Smooth, well-executed UI
From 3 comments
I almost didn't click through because of the verbose and unhelpful landing page. When I hit "get started" I was amazed at the quality of the app! This is a great view on SO, I…
mvanveen on HN``` > selecting multiple tags might be nice ``` The UI hints that this is possible because it uses checkboxes for tags, I tried exactly that when i first loaded the site. Radio…
WickyNilliams on HNGreat app, kind of tldr for stack overflow :)
louischatriot on HN
Objections
Popular questions are ones people already know
From 2 comments
That's a great idea, and I really like how it looks (and how usable it actually is for a first release). The only flaw I see is that the most popular questions on SO are those…
pioul on HNMy feeling after browsing the Java section was that the most popular questions deal with "curiosities" of the language. It is not wrong per se, but I think I have read the…
xtracto on HN
Broken links and wrong answer attribution in answers
From 3 comments
Very cool! It seems though that if links are in answers, they are broken. Very nice work though!!
jonpaul on HNVery cool site! Noticed a few issues, the most obvious of which is sometimes the answer doesn't belong to the poster you're looking at. An Example: I drilled down to C#, Jon…
baak on HNPretty cool. One minor bug I noticed was that links in answers are not clickable. When you click them they just hide the answer box instead of open the link.
Skywing on HN
Layout breaks on smaller screens and iPad
From 3 comments
Firefox 18. My display does not look like the front page screensnap. I see the questions below the Answerers column, not next to it. Are you expecting a certain screen width?…
mikecane on HNGreat tool thanks a lot for this! Some things I found while browsing on my iPad: - Viewing this on an iPad and the third Q/A column is not on the same level as the rest of the…
nej on HNI understand that you haven't optimized it for mobile yet. But that's no good reason to ruin it with that fixed banner.
Rovanion on HN
Requests
Tag search
From 3 comments
Great idea and execution! Very good work. One thing I immediately wanted is the ability to search through tags. An insta-search widget would be cool. Also, selecting multiple…
natural219 on HNSame here, I spent minutes loading tags and C-F-ing for Smalltalk, until I gave up.
bromagosa on HNThis is great! Already found a partial solution to a problem about divisors of a number at answer http://stackoverflow.com/a/171784/470560. A search would make this even more…
peterhil on HN
Multiple tag selection
From 3 comments
Great idea and execution! Very good work. One thing I immediately wanted is the ability to search through tags. An insta-search widget would be cool. Also, selecting multiple…
natural219 on HNI went through checking a bunch of topics I was interested in and it took me a while to notice that the checkboxes were mutually exclusive. It's a bit confusing because that's…
amfeng on HNYou're absolutely on point - my intent was to enable selecting multiple tags (since the SO API supports it), I just wasn't able to get to that this weekend. Will implement it asap.
nirvanatikku on HN
Mobile optimization
From 3 comments
This is pretty great. It's a neat way to minimize SO. I noticed that you're planning on preparing it to be ready for mobile; I'm really interested in checking it out when you do…
tagabek on HNI too find it very cool. I first viewed it via mobile on my iPhone and found the "get started" page wouldn't load. I then noticed that it hasn't been set up for mobile yet.…
RahCom on HNI understand that you haven't optimized it for mobile yet. But that's no good reason to ruin it with that fixed banner.
Rovanion on HN
User registration and favorites
From 1 comment
This one of the most useful Show HN projects to turn up in a long time . Just add user registrations so we can track the answers we've already read and get updates on our…
thewarrior on HN
Sorting by vote or date
From 2 comments
Cool site. I can definitely see myself browsing through it to learn some new stuff. If you're interested, I made a few notes to try to help you improve the site: * The point…
AgentConundrum on HNnicely done. It would be extra awesome if you could weight the answers a little by date and whether the current version of the language matches the date. Actually that would…
countessa on HN
Questions
What is the backend language?
From 3 comments
Really awesome app! I like the design, and it's definitely got great functionality. A little curious -- what's your middle/backend like? Curious which frameworks/platforms you…
hardwaresofton on HNVery impressive, especially for a weekend "hack". What did you write the site in?
avgarrison on HNThis is awesome! In which language is it written?
demnior on HN
Is it open source?
From 1 comment
any plans to open source this?
aoprisan on HN