Hackr.io - Product Hunt for Online Programming Courses & Tutorials

@gauravgupta Hey! Just to give you a heads up, the link is taking me to http://hacker.io not http://hackr.io

@gauravgupta @misbahspeaks no worries - really like the simplicity of the UI, it's going to be a very useful resource for me :)

@misbahspeaks @itsmarkchaffey Thanks Mark!

@gauravgupta Would be awesome to have other authentication methods (other than sign in Google I mean ... )

@joostschuur Point taken.

@gauravgupta @joostschuur This is good advice, my friends and I thought the same

@gauravgupta @joostschuur TOTALLY agree. You have got to ditch this directory structure. Note Product hunt's dating structure: today, yesterday, ... this is enough. Get everything up in a big list and let google suss it out. Don't send users ice-fishing. Second, getting everything in one list will increase the social game aspect of it. Or, imagine a scenario where someone is writing killer tutorials across languages. I want to see that person rise up the lists irrespective of what language their work is in. Third, the directory forces a certain kind of emphasis on languages and a smattering of apis. What if I'm more interested in programming concepts? Recursion, or I'm keeping an eye out for anything DSP related and I don't care what language or api, R, Numpy, Matlab, Python, etc, You're stomping that kind of user with the directory.

@v4violetta give it a shot, it's addicting once you gain traction!

@v4violetta @misbahspeaks Yeah!

@jonbstrong Here it is! http://hackr.io/tutorials/meteor

@notrab Maybe we can work together on Hackr going forward? Let me know your thoughts.

@juliomontas Thanks! Maybe we can work together on Hackr going forward? Let me know your thoughts.

@sachagreif Yups, it's a simple Laravel + MySQL backend running on a Linode but heavily optimized for frontend performance.

@ericwattage Could you explain what you mean by "hands on approach"?

@gauravgupta Happy to. I submitted a couple links and they only took the URL. That means there is someone from your side looking through all submissions, adding fields like title, tag, etc. and then publishing the link. I'm just wondering why not give the user more freedom / capability to enter this data in a submission?

@ericwattage I just wanted to make it dead simple for people to submit a link without having to enter a lengthy form with title, categories etc. What do you think?

@gauravgupta Cool! I think it's up to you what feel you want it to have. Making all the content user input is more work, but makes it feel more community powered through and through as opposed to curated with community suggestions. Interesting, thanks for the details! Cool site.