Kurikku

Dev tools

code annotation

SHOW HN2014

164points
76comments
#141of 2,272 in 2014
Top 7%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

19 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 22 critical, out of 57 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.

Idea: 18 for, 7 againstExecution: 1 for, 8 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful for learning and education

    From 4 comments
    • I love this idea. It's like crowd-sourcing code comments! That has tremendous education potential, especially for people like me who learned by looking at other people's code,…
      mikeleeorg on HN
    • A lot of the commenters on here are looking at this in terms of normal code commenting or something similiar. However, for something more akin to a tutorial, having in depth line…
      joeconway on HN
    • Really great idea, especially for beginners.
      kaila on HN
    • I like the concept. It's code commenting and analysis that's out of the way. There are many ways to look at and digest a piece of code. This is very helpful for learning.
      sb1752 on HN
  • Good idea that fills a gap in code annotation

    From 3 comments
    • I have actually been telling people as soon a Rap Genius released Code Genius I would stop using Stack Overflow altogether, at first glance this still has a ways to go but I'm…
      zbruhnke on HN
    • I smell a hit. The pitch is killer and I even like the name (although I'm not sure I can pronounce it).
      futurist on HN
    • Great idea. Does anyone know of a non-social version of this type of annotation, i.e. a static version that you write in the comments yourself? This would be a great improvement…
      simplify on HN

Objections

  • Site had XSS vulnerabilities

    From 3 comments
    • Site seems to be vulnerable to XSS http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5/%3Cscript%3Ealert-4-%3C-slash-script%3E (Harmless alert popup)
      Jagat on HN
    • Someone has figured out how to do JS injection: http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5
      umanwizard on HN
    • You need to escape user input to avoid XSS on the page.
      tzury on HN
  • Display bugs with tooltips and colors in Chrome, IE11 and Montserrat font

    From 4 comments
    • Nice work, just to tell you that font Montserrat looks really bad on Chrome / Win7 and Opera / Win7 (both latest)
      zebra on HN
    • And styles are not shown in IE11.
      CSDude on HN
    • There is a bug in showing tooltips. For instance open this: http://kurikku.com/s/52ef0f9ce4b0630f318682b3/apl-generate-polyominoes-in-apl Hover line 5, and move the mouse…
      gedrap on HN
    • Lots of blinking and flashing when I mouse over stuff, and it's not clear what includes a comment and what doesn't. Also I really liked that documentation thing someone showed us…
      Gracana on HN
  • Name is hard to pronounce, spell and remember

    From 2 comments
    • What does the name mean? Nothing on the site or rudimentary Googling. Seems like it'll be a tough url to share verbally without having to spell it out.
      bdcravens on HN
    • I need to wonder why people insist on using terrible names like these. It takes careful analysis of the word just to be able to read and pronounce it, and I will certainly never…
      nilved on HN
  • Pitch via Rap Genius is unclear to people who don't know it

    From 1 comment
    • "Rap Genius for Code" might be an amazing pitch for avid users of Rap Genius. I wouldn't know. I don't know or care exactly what Rap Genius is, even though I remember there was a…
      maggit on HN

Requests

  • GitHub and git repo integration

    From 3 comments
    • My first thought was: github integration would be killer. I would pay to be able to code review with this tool on git repos.
      bbaumgar on HN
    • Why not integrate with github? That seems obvious to me
      grimtrigger on HN
    • My first thought was, "it doesn't have github integration?" Great prototype idea, github/gitorious/bitbucket/etc integration would be the killer feature for a killer app.
      SkyMarshal on HN
  • Embeddable annotated code, like gists

    From 1 comment
    • One thing really useful would be allow one to embed this on their site. (just the code and annotation, and one can decide no one can comment or something). So it's like github…
      chaoxu on HN
  • User profile pages and filtering by language or user

    From 3 comments
    • It would be better if there were user profile pages. And a URL structure like http://kurikku.com/user/hello-world would look nifty in my opinion.
      krmbzds on HN
    • It looks interesting. I would like to see the ability to search by language by clicking on the [language] part of headers though. Also maybe being able to view annotations by user.
      krapp on HN
    • Cool, I think this is a great idea.. Some thoughts: - Currate the results on the frontpage a little? It's filled with test posts - Group & filter (e.g. on language) - IMHO this…
      gizzlon on HN
  • IDE plugin integration

    From 2 comments
    • It would be great if you could integrate with an IDE in some fashion. I'm thinking that this could be a way of formatting comments in code that then becomes beautiful annotation…
      ghayes on HN
    • Awesome, I will use that now instead of pastebin to share my code snippets. If you can get this as a plugin into eclipse, xCode and code sharing sites like stackoverflow you have…
      wellboy on HN

Questions

  • Why is this needed beyond normal code comments

    From 2 comments
  • Is SSL used for login and registration

    From 1 comment
    • where is your SSL certificate? all login and registration pages MUST run under https
      house9-2 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Noted Code

    From 3 comments
    • Like this: https://notedcode.com/repo/github/paulsm/presto/README.md#02d0c232 Or as a short URL: https://notedcode.com/n/02d0c232 This is a lot more difficult than you might…
      psm42 on HN
    • Was it https://notedcode.com ?
      psm42 on HN
    • I built something similar a few months ago as part of a Stanford/Coursera MOOC. It's still up and running at https://notedcode.com
      psm42 on HN
  • Docco

    From 1 comment
    • I don't recall seeing it on HN recently, but are you thinking of Docco? Example: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
      aroman on HN
  • GitHub line comments on pull requests and commits

    From 3 comments
    • There already is one: http://github.com/
      bonemachine on HN
    • AFAICT Github doesn't let you annotate arbitrary lines of code. It does, however, let you make line-level comments on pull requests
      sheetjs on HN
    • You can do line-level comments on commits as well, outside of a pull request.
      sync on HN
  • Dakuto

    From 1 comment
    • It was http://dakuto.com/. Coincidentally Dakuto also has a Japanese-sounding name ;)
      rogerdickey on HN

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