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by fsav 18y ago
You might want to check out hackrtrackr.com . The creator talked about his site elsewhere in the thread.
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by fsav 18y ago
First of all: thanks for the detailed feedback! More precise points: - About the colors: you're not the only one to have mentioned this. I'll experiment with lighter background etc. and see what comes out. - The Markdown is straight from h
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by fsav 18y ago
Hey I just saw you're the one behind Review Robot. I saw your presentation @ CUSEC/Democamp last month. Prior to working on Clusterify I was developing an iPhone app (which I still haven't got around to publishing), so that was quite intere
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by fsav 18y ago
I'd absolutely see games as a good category of ideas, but very small-scale games. Of course we're not enforcing any time limits, so we'll see how the community actually evolves. The "few hours" suggestion is due to our original intention: t
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by fsav 18y ago
I love the term "projectiles"! :) And the branding idea is good in general. We already have "clusters" which we could use to denote teams, though.
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by fsav 18y ago
What were you planning to do with the site? A list of profiles? (ie. dir as in ppl directory?)
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by fsav 18y ago
No. I went to Polytechnique until last year (graduated in May 2008).
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by fsav 18y ago
Thanks for the mention! And welcome (just saw your profile on the site).
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by fsav 18y ago
That's exactly what we had in mind for the site: a way for people with restrictive schedules to meet other technical people in a project context (seeking cofounders is a perfect example of the need). We'll work on integrating geographic inf
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by fsav 18y ago
Group/events/location features have been mentioned 3 times at least in this thread. For sure we'll be thinking about how to implement this properly. As for the "how to make them aware" part, we'll try to find ways. If anyone has suggestions
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by fsav 18y ago
We're not quite sure how we're going to implement the group/location feature but we'll have that in mind. Thanks for the offer.
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by fsav 18y ago
Well I still wanted to smoke test it locally before deploying the change, so < 5 mins would have been a bit hard :P
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by fsav 18y ago
Yeah sure you could just run away with other's ideas. But the focus is on meeting others while implementing the ideas. I guess if you have a revolutionary idea, you better keep it to yourself :P But if you have a small project that'd be use
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by fsav 18y ago
Nope, haven't been to much Montreal tech events except CUSEC for the moment. I'll have to check it out.
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by fsav 18y ago
Hey I _am_ in Montreal! :P And sure we'll add group/location features if they're useful to actual real-world meetups. Thanks for the comment.
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by fsav 18y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! Actually the intention was to make project administration happen through comments, but indeed some common pieces of information are likely to come back in every project and allow for better filtering and smoother
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by fsav 18y ago
OK so the registering process should now be much easier (for better or for worse -- we'll deal with misuse as it shows up, as you said). It's not as good your comment and shimon's propose, but it should at least be much faster: no activatio
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by fsav 18y ago
OK thanks for pointing this out! URLs should be fixed in RSS feed now.
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by fsav 18y ago
Indeed :P The design is directly inspired by StackOverflow's (so bad that we mentioned it in the about page).
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by fsav 18y ago
The principle behind having people registering to post was to make it less confusing. At first we wanted to separate "ideas" and "implementations", so an idea could have many implementations and indeed you could have had anonymous ideas. Ma
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by fsav 18y ago
Me and Aneesh have been working hard on an idea I described here a few weeks ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=450810 ): a site where you propose small coding projects and others can join. The goal is meeting new people and sharing
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by fsav 18y ago
In fact, in my wild dreams concerning this idea, there's also a part for real-world projects: people could indicate an interest in such or such technology, yes, but could also filter by location, or a real-world meetup could be suggested wh
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by fsav 18y ago
(Looking back on this, mentioning Rails seems to not make any sense, but the reason is deep in my fuzzy subconscious: there's a Montreal meeting for Rails called Montreal on Rails)
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by fsav 18y ago
Think we could collaborate on this? I thought about doing this we either Django or Drupal, but as you seem to favor Django, that'd be fine with me! Anyway I wasn't planning on doing this as a startup (ie. profit driven), but rather as a com
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by fsav 18y ago
Thanks for the idea. It's indeed a good example of the scope I was thinking about (as long as you're not trying to write a full-fledged GTD app with all the bells and whistles).
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by fsav 18y ago
Example of a project: well the TODO list suggested in the other comment makes for a great example: it can be very small. But there could also be more original stuff, things which would not repeat anything out there. Another example would be
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by fsav 18y ago
The reason I was thinking of online projects has to do with having critical mass for a given technology (say Django) in a given place (say Montreal, where I'm located). In Montreal, for example, Rails seems to enjoy more popularity, and Dja
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by fsav 18y ago
Do you still have the link for the thread (if it was here)? I might try to develop it if more people show interest. Of course others would be welcome to join in the development :P Btw there's no need for a general consensus: as long as enou
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Ask HN: small projects to network with other programmers
16 points by fsav 18y ago|13 comments
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by fsav 18y ago
Also, from times of yore: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192977

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