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#141of 1,097 in 2011
Top 13%of 2011 by points
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LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
9 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 0 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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Useful for researching technologies and finding alternatives
From 4 comments
To me it seems it's a great idea that may save time looking for alternatives to a technology from its name. Still, I think the most valuable part this site may add is the very…
tuxella on HNI can see the value in something like this, especially for more novice web developers who may not know the terms to search for in Google or StackOverflow to find what they need.…
tmcneal on HNCool idea! Definitely makes research a lot easier! Any reason why CSS isn`t on the list of languages? My web stack in the past has included CSS pre-processers, like LESS and Sass.
kat on HNSpeaking as someone whose web development skills are out of date, this is great.
georgieporgie on HN
Idea could grow into a wikipedia for web developers
From 1 comment
This is great stuff. This could end up like a wikipedia for web developers. I've been wanting to do something like this for myself. With all the options available out there, its…
rohit89 on HN
Objections
Hard to read; category layout and tooltips are unclear
From 2 comments
One small point - I found it quite hard to read. When I first saw it I assumed it was just some type of tag cloud until I realised that the link on the left is the category. Also…
jamesRaybould on HNI can see that it's sorted now, but I don't think I explained my intention well before. What I meant was the order should be something like: - language - sql - webserver -…
runako on HN
Some metadata is wrong or missing, such as category definitions
From 1 comment
I can see the value in something like this, especially for more novice web developers who may not know the terms to search for in Google or StackOverflow to find what they need.…
tmcneal on HN
Requests
Show stacks as a graph or map linking parts used together
From 3 comments
Would love to see it as a map/graph, where parts that "go together" (or are often used together) being linked. It'd probably be tricky to find the right threshold, but the result…
senko on HNTo me it seems it's a great idea that may save time looking for alternatives to a technology from its name. Still, I think the most valuable part this site may add is the very…
tuxella on HNAwesome! I would love to see a "this is my stack" tool: let people choose parts (maybe in an easy click and drag way) to show their complete stack. With a few stack data points,…
revorad on HN
Maturity, popularity and activity metrics for each part
From 3 comments
This is a great tool. I can see this being extremely useful. Have you considered including a set of metrics which measure the maturity and status of each project? How about…
shogunmike on HNAwesome! Been wanting to build something like this for a while. One of the things the might be useful is the notion of which components of a stack are the most mature.
salsakran on HNNice idea. Could you include an approximation of each components popularity or longevity? This would allow people to know if they are picking mainstream or more…
tomx on HN
Ability to pick a language and see compatible parts
From 2 comments
One small point - I found it quite hard to read. When I first saw it I assumed it was just some type of tag cloud until I realised that the link on the left is the category. Also…
jamesRaybould on HNWhat I would be more interested is interconnectivity between these elements of the stack, which rdbms have an API for the language I have selected for example.
Kudos on HN
Add more categories such as CSS, ORM, and source control
From 3 comments
Cool idea! Definitely makes research a lot easier! Any reason why CSS isn`t on the list of languages? My web stack in the past has included CSS pre-processers, like LESS and Sass.
kat on HNThere aren't many stand-alone ORMs with last-gen frameworks, but they're increasingly important for noSQL. Would you add an ORM category? Also, you could avoid the spatial UI…
mbijon on HNIt might be a good idea to tag the age of articles because some may be complaints or has missing features that would get resolved. Also, no Source Control (Git/SVN/etc) or…
Joakal on HN
Sort categories in stack order
From 2 comments
Interesting idea. Suggestion: sort the categories at the top by how likely a project is to need/use them. Without getting into religious arguments, I think a fair example would…
runako on HNI can see that it's sorted now, but I don't think I explained my intention well before. What I meant was the order should be something like: - language - sql - webserver -…
runako on HN
Questions
Will results be tracked over time or measured by usage?
From 1 comment
i'm interested. are you going to track the results over time? and/or metrics around usage? i'd be interested in all of the above.
sogrady on HN
How to measure a part's popularity or longevity?
From 1 comment
yeah. any ideas on how to measure this?
joshu on HN
Alternatives named
Ohloh stacks feature
From 1 comment
ohloh.net has a "stacks" feature that crowd-sources this kind of information. It would be neat to tie these together.
forestbond on HN
jakarta.apache.org
From 1 comment
Interesting idea. Suggestion: sort the categories at the top by how likely a project is to need/use them. Without getting into religious arguments, I think a fair example would…
runako on HN
appdate.it
From 1 comment
We could merge our efforts, someway. I provide some projects' metadata (along their history) via http://appdate.it . It's really a rough job to do... mostly web page scraping,…
caludio on HN