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SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.23.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Thorough beginner-friendly coverage from environment setup onward
From 1 comment
I finished the course a few days ago and it was awesome. Of course it is not a fully functional complete clone, but it is an incredible learning resource. It really starts from…
soneca on HN
Impressive first lesson
From 1 comment
I got an email with the first course today and was pretty blown away tbh.
DrewWeth on HN
Objections
Landing page loads slowly due to a 1.5MB image
From 1 comment
That 1.5MB of image on the landing page should be shrunk drastically—you could trivially shave a megabyte off it, or even more.
chrismorgan on HN
Page is blank when ad or script blockers are enabled
From 3 comments
I visited the page with uBlock on and nothing showed up. The I noticed that leadpages.net is blacklisted on it. So I had to remove the Ad Block and refresh the page.
newscracker on HNThe page is empty. Blocked by uBlock Origin.
user5994461 on HNUgh, I had to unblock a bunch of scripts to even view this page. Super fail. I'm going to reblock everything I just blocked. Thanks.
rexreed on HN
Requests
A course on building a distributed, large-scale Twitter backend
From 1 comment
"Small Twitter clone" can be taken two ways, and this one, I think, is the less interesting of the two. (Not to denigrate the project for what it is; it's a good idea.) On a…
derefr on HN
Build an OStatus-compliant clone
From 1 comment
Cool, may I recommend building an OStatus-compliant twitter clone? https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
riffic on HN
Questions
Why the course is free
From 1 comment
Thanks for the course! I have a question unrelated to the contents: Why did you choose to release it for free? I guess you spent a lot of time preparing it, so I assume there…
wofo on HN
Whether lessons are emailed in batches
From 1 comment
@Shane, is the course emailed in one hit, or in batches. If so that is an interesting way to do it (phased roll-out of course by email) in itself.
bootload on HN
Alternatives named
Rail Tutorial by Michael Hartl
From 1 comment
Though I have not used it yet, https://www.railstutorial.org by Michael Hartl also focuses on building a Twitter clone.
tent on HN
Nim in Action book
From 1 comment
This looks like a really cool course. In case anybody is interested in learning how to build a Twitter clone in Nim then consider taking a look at my book[1]. It's not free but…
dom96 on HN
Nick Janetakis Flask SaaS course
From 1 comment
Not free, but if you don't mind paying the cost of 2x pizzas you can get life time access to a 10 hour self paced video course that will teach you how to build a large real world…
nickjj on HN