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Hi HN!

Let me present you the side project I have been working on for the past two weeks :)

It is a place where you can share your side projects, even before they have a shiny UI or marketing videos, and when you don’t feel ready to post them on Product Hunt yet. In other words: a mix of Product Hunt, Show HN, and /r/SideProject.

What do you think?

3 comments

I think it would work better if a visitor could leave comments without logging in. I submitted my project (https://try.yax.com, "tiny websites with free hosting") and paid the $20 to have it promoted to the #3 position in the listings. That was about 3 hours ago and I've had a steady stream of visitors (thanks! my $20 was well-spent) but no comments so far. I definitely want a way to gather comments before going to Product Hunt or Show HN with my project.

Hi! First, thanks for your subscription! You are right, there was a lot of project submissions, but very few comments. This is definitely what I need to work on now: find a way to encourage comments.

Are you concerned about spam? Is that why you are requiring a login for comments? Most of the visitors are developers with side projects themselves. How about rewarding comments with points that boost the commenter's own project in the listings? Would that work?

It looks like a good idea :)

Looks interesting.

The times are pretty confusing, as they're in some other time zone. If you can't display them in the viewer's time zone, maybe do relative times like "5 hours ago"?

Thanks!

Yes, displaying times better is near the top of my todo list :)

What an astonishingly amazing project! I <3 this so much!