Tool Time
Learning and science
developer tool quiz
SHOW HN2016
31points
20comments
#968of 2,264 in 2016
Top 43%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.41.
Docs: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun quiz that exposes lesser-known tools
From 3 comments
It seems biased on SaaS tools. But I like it, found out about cool services :D
k__ on HNCool. There are many tools which I don't know about. My Current Score is: 3 :)
mhrnik on HN"If you know http you know Sintatra". I wonder which option I should pick? Sinatra? There's a lot of those, especially with AWS products, where all but the product name is…
daenney on HN
Objections
Biased toward SaaS products rather than dev tool features
From 3 comments
It seems biased on SaaS tools. But I like it, found out about cool services :D
k__ on HNThe title made me think this will be a quiz about rarely known commands or feature in some IDEs. That would be nice. Instead it's a quiz where there are 8 subjective barely…
Illniyar on HN> It seems biased on SaaS tools Yeah, that bothered me a little. I was expecting something like interesting lesser-known features of popular standalone tools, from command line…
laumars on HN
Clues are vague marketing phrases or misleading
From 3 comments
It's also entertaining to get the keywords: ``` Great community support Flexible, powerful, simple Superb api Easy to learn and powerful to work with ``` mmk. Just shows how…
OJFord on HNA lot of the ones I saw were a mix of way too vague to be guessable ("easy to use", "simple", "pleasant") or way too obvious because of the clues ("backed by Microsoft" -- the…
ubertaco on HNThere's also a lot of times where the keywords are like this: "Free plan, nice ui, easy to use" And there's 4 SaaS apps that I've never heard of--not that I could distinguish if…
mod on HN
Quiz answers lack descriptions to learn from
From 2 comments
> It seems biased on SaaS tools Yeah, that bothered me a little. I was expecting something like interesting lesser-known features of popular standalone tools, from command line…
laumars on HNYou're right, my apologies. It still might have been nice to have a little information on the quiz answers though. It breaks the flow of the site if I constantly have to navigate…
laumars on HN
Requests
Show product descriptions after answering
From 1 comment
Good idea! We originally had the descriptions there for the options but that gave away the answer. Showing the description once you answer would be helpful, we'll add that.
yonasb on HN
Add an I don't know option
From 1 comment
Hi, interesting quiz. I might discover some new tools here. I would suggest a "I don't know" button.
johntiror on HN