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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We just launched Codecademy Docs, our brand new coding documentation site for popular programming languages and frameworks. This is a project that started during a company hackathon because we were tired of seeing inconsistent documentation on the web. The project was named "Codepedia" and we have been working on it since for the past four months - shipped v1 and v2, and just surpassed 700 entries across 18 different topics! So a big shoutout to Curriculum Free, Reach, Marketing, CCs, and all the volunteers who helped out. 🙏🙏🙏 Codecademy Docs is a low-key big step for the team because it's our very first step into the realm of open contribution and UGC (user-generated content). Our north star is a world where devs, educators, and learners around the world come together and build tens of thousands of Docs entries for the community to use for free. Let us know what you think in the comments below!
This is nice! I will definitely be checking this before W3Schools for reference. How are you looking to incentivize contributions and make sure this takes off as a UGC product? I can imagine there is also some balance you have to strike for optimizing SEO.
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Hi Michael! Our recent v2's focus has been on contributions, including a leaderboard on the homepage and highlighting contributors on entries they've authored. We also rode the Hacktoberfest wave last month and has gotten 79 entries created by the community so far. What other ways do you think we can incentivize contributions? Let us know if you have any ideas :)
I like the idea of helping people establish their expertise in ways that are valued both on and off platform. Maybe there is a web3 angle 😸
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BitDocs. A decentralized coding documentation platform where contributions are kept on ledgers, users can buy/sell "entry coins" and award money to entries they find helpful by clicking on a diamond button. 😬
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One of our engineers Josh just suggested sending little trophies or swag to the top contributors, which is prolly more in our wheelhouse lol
Nice, the idea is cool and the fact that everyone can contribute too but for example in typescript I don´t see what is the value that you are adding more than putting your own courses at the end of every page.
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Hi Jose, totally valid feedback. How we see it is this... There are some languages and libraries that have super solid docs existing on the web already (JS, TS, React, and Swift for example). But they are few and far between. A lot of docs like Java's, C++'s, and SQL's are still filled with technical jargon, lack a search function, or fall short in terms of breadth/depth. And frankly, some of today's coding doc sites seem like they are straight from the internet stone age. So we are hoping to do better.
that's a good point, since I (luckily) only develop in well documented technologies maybe I didn't see that. Documenting is actually one of the hardest things in tech so, thanks a lot for your work! :D
i think it works for me . i will give it try later
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Please do and let us know what you think!