• teddyh 2 days ago

    Missing these:

    • The Linux Software Map: <https://lsm.qqx.org/>

    • Freshcode (spiritual successor to Freshmeat) <http://freshcode.club/>

    • soGeneri 2 days ago

      Gonna look into these, thanks for sharing!

    • pknerd 2 days ago

      I am more interested to find platforms where laymen share their pains about items they use.

      • mdaniel 14 hours ago
        • xtiansimon a day ago

          Isn’t that just a blog or podcast or even a YouTube channel. You might think I’m being funny, but this is the core purpose of the web—low friction/barriers to put your personal content on www. The low barrier platforms are YouTube and any of the social media apps when a *blogger use these to promote their content hosted anywhere they choose (for all the various reasons someone choose how they want to produce content)

          • preciousoo 2 days ago

            Same, but I’m also scared of us nerds joining and telling them to just self compile/host/deploy/whatever

            • pknerd 2 days ago

              The world does not revolve around compilers and SDKs..I am talking about problems laymen face

              • airstrike 2 days ago

                The hard problem here is getting people to contribute with content. They have no incentive to share their pain points. Often they don't even know about what it is or how to describe it. You kinda have to do the leg work and diligence of talking to them and trying to pull that information from them, rather than them pushing to you. But I agree this is immensely important.

                • preciousoo 18 hours ago

                  damn, i became the person i was describing

              • heyarviind2 a day ago

                I am solving this by buidling https://huntlie.com

                Users can give feedback for their product which can be used by others to decide which product in the same niche they want before trying every product and then finding out.

                I am also trying to figure out ratings (Usability, Support, Value for money) for each product.

                • samsquire 2 days ago

                  If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.

                  • jasfi 2 days ago

                    There are several tools out there that scan Reddit for people complaining about problems. Just search for them.

                    • stuartjohnson12 a day ago

                      Okay, I'll bite, I searched and couldn't find them. What are they called?

                    • AznHisoka 2 days ago

                      isn't this basically Twitter, FB and even Linkedin (laymen complaining about how they can't find jobs or get ghosted), as well as community/help forums for specific products? Of course, there's no central forum for sharing pains, but people tend to complain in the platform where they're most likely to get a response...

                      • soGeneri 2 days ago

                        This can be extended to include what you’re talking about. Do you have a list in mind?

                        • pknerd 2 days ago

                          nope

                        • sweetdreamerit a day ago

                          It's called UX Research.

                          • mxuribe 2 days ago

                            Agreed! And, i would call such a site/portal/etc., something like "Awesome Pain"...I guess it could serve as a repo of anything from:

                            * startup ideas...

                            * to gotchas for devs to think about fixing for their respective apps/services...

                            * to a study in best practices, or maybe what not todos...

                            ...etc. ;-)

                          • lakshikag 2 days ago

                            Would love to have itslaunched.com added as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712666

                            • soGeneri 2 days ago

                              Will check it out!

                            • jakemanger 11 hours ago

                              Starred! Am currently in the process of releasing a new app so this is what I needed today

                              • that_guy_iain 2 days ago

                                Cool. I actually posted my project to a few open-source directory sites yesterday. I got an email today that it will go live on the 4th of July unless I pay for a quicker submission... I emailed them and pointed out it was just hurting themselves and they said they have a queue and they only do 3 a day so every launch gets its own time sort of thing. The value proposition is that you can find alternatives not that you can launch your project there, it makes no sense to me other than they've seen launch platforms do it so...

                                I think there needs to be a good open-source alternatives directory that isn't run by someone who doesn't treat it as a launch platform.

                                • pplonski86 a day ago

                                  My dream is to create product that I don’t need to promote. I would like to have such market fit that people will search for product by them self.

                                  • pentagrama 2 days ago

                                    > Niche Communities

                                    > Designer News - A community for designers, where you can share your design-related side projects and get feedback from other designers.

                                    Sadly, Designer News looks like it has shut down: https://www.designernews.co

                                    • soGeneri 2 days ago

                                      Sad to hear, I used to visit frequently. Will remove, thanks

                                    • captn3m0 2 days ago

                                      This is helpful, but shouldn’t be a Show HN, as it is not something that can be tried out. The Guidelines:

                                      > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

                                      • navigate8310 2 days ago

                                        Subscribed RSS. Very helpful!

                                      • terrycody 2 days ago

                                        You omitted a very famous website: starterstory

                                        • soGeneri 2 days ago

                                          I don’t think starter story fits into the spirit of this list. Seems like a paid product?

                                        • monophonica 2 days ago

                                          Thanks for this. Really nice resource.

                                          • kiru_io 2 days ago

                                            Nice, was looking for something similar.

                                            • khnov 2 days ago

                                              Thanks, perfect timing

                                              • teddyh 2 days ago
                                                • frizlab 2 days ago

                                                  Very nice!

                                                  • superkittyspark 2 days ago

                                                    nice!

                                                    • rorytbyrne 2 days ago

                                                      Missing lobste.rs

                                                      • soGeneri 2 days ago

                                                        On the list to be added! I’ll check it out

                                                        • Dansvidania 2 days ago

                                                          isn't that "closed" ?

                                                          meaning not anyone can post something there?

                                                          • rorytbyrne 2 days ago

                                                            Oh true, forgot about that. You need someone to invite you IIRC.

                                                          • hmlwilliams 2 days ago

                                                            Isn't self promotion frowned upon on lobste.rs?