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mrrovot
this is great and open source, what is the idea behind it?
giekaton
Hi, click on "More details..." link to learn more about Hacker Dig.

Also try clicking on the eye icon and comments to show/hide summaries and comments.

saelamin
I don't know what "dig" means in the context of this app and therefore I don't understand the purpose of the app.
giekaton
Dig is like in "idea digging" or "vinyl crate digging".
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wild_preference
To help me get started, I wouldn't mind seeing an example of what the start of an idea-mining session looks like with this interface. I've never done anything like this so I could use some inspiration for how to use such a tool.
giekaton
The inspiration is on the left side. It can be a title or something in the summary or comments. When something sparks an idea, click to create a new note about it.
UncleEntity
Who adds the summaries?

Asking since the first one I looked at was just weird, something about core dump percentages or...dunno?

giekaton
Summaries are extracted with Aylien API, free plan. Sometimes they can be a bit random or missing.
adz_6891
great work, and a nice PWA example. Thanks for sharing!
Krokku
Is it really really necessary to have that captcha?? Lending brain power to the worlds biggest advertising and spy operation is a turn off. Besides it sucks to sit there and click endless images of traffic lights, cars, busses and store fronts...
giekaton
Sorry about that, but I need to protect mail server.

Captcha doesn't send ideas data to google as the ideas are not part of the submit form.

But totally agree with you.

Todo: change captcha to a local php solution.