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

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!

Missing these:

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

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

Gonna look into these, thanks for sharing!

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

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)

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

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

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.

damn, i became the person i was describing

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

nope

It's called UX Research.

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. ;-)

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

Will check it out!

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.

> 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

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

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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.

Subscribed RSS. Very helpful!

Thank you for the comment! I had no clue that Github has RSS feeds for each repo.

For everyone else, I found this article to be super helpful to understand what kind of RSS functionality is available: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-git...

You omitted a very famous website: starterstory

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

Thanks for this. Really nice resource.

Nice, was looking for something similar.

Thanks, perfect timing

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.

Very nice!

nice!

Missing lobste.rs

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

isn't that "closed" ?

meaning not anyone can post something there?

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

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

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