Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your projects

2 days ago (github.com)

I made an open source directory for sharing projects

Ever wondered how to show off that something you just built? Look no further! Awesome Launch is meant to be a list of communities and forums you can share your projects to get feedback or your first users.

Anyone is free to contribute sites and resources. Hope you enjoy!

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pknerd  1 day ago

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

  • xtiansimon  14 hours 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)

  • heyarviind2  21 hours 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  1 day 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  1 day ago

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

  • AznHisoka  1 day 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...

  • mxuribe  1 day 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. ;-)

pplonski86  9 hours 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.

captn3m0  1 day 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.

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.