Ask HN: Features for a programming resource portal?

1 points by andrew_gardener 12y ago ↗ HN

What features would you like to see for a website linking to outside resources for programming languages/frameworks/technologies/libraries?

I want to build a website to help programmers find relevant resources for beginner/advanced subjects or tutorials for languages/technologies/whatever. I've had this idea for a side project in my head for a while now and I think I've finally convinced myself its worth pursuing.

It'll mostly consist of a simple search + tagging system on links to other websites. The main thing I'm hopping to have to make it better than just googling is:

a) User rating system to help promote good resources and demote bad ones (think something like HN).

b) Focus on programming resources (so less crap links in results).

c) Some social aspects to add weight and opinion to resources.

The social aspects I'd like to add are comments on resource links and possibly forums for every top level category (languages, frameworks, etc) for QA and general discussion.

Does anyone have any ideas to add to the pot? I really interested in what what anyone has to say about this (criticisms included).

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sharemywin 12y ago ↗

preferences/filter for language, platform etc. user request section for content that doesn't exist. Be able to add code snippets. I would also build landing page first to get some email addresses for members. No point in building something out if people aren't gonig to use it.

andrew_gardener 12y ago ↗

Thanks for the advice and suggestions.

I'll likely just build a prototype and link it to HN for initial 'beta' signups. I'm not really a fan of making landing pages to extract email address. Its great for certain things but I don't think my side project really needs one.

hershel 12y ago ↗

it seems pretty close to lobste.rs .

hummm, ya I guess that could be close to what I want to do. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm planning to do stuff a little differently though (mostly visually. I don't want to make a HN clone). The only other major difference is I want to separate resource links from general discussion (just have them in different tabs/sections or something).