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Re:Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools? by daenney on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:25AM (#12142365)
"If you know http you know Sintatra". I wonder which option I should pick? Sinatra?

There's a lot of those, especially with AWS products, where all but the product name is mentioned in the descriptions.

It's fun to play though :). Also amazing how many things there are.

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Re:Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools? by OJFord on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:09AM (#12142497)
It's also entertaining to get the keywords:

    Great community support
    Flexible, powerful, simple
    Superb api
    Easy to learn and powerful to work with
mmk. Just shows how fluffy and not _actually_ useful SaaS descriptions can be - the only real clue here is "api", since one of the options was nginx, that helps a tiny bit.
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Re:Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools? by yonasb on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:12AM (#12144018)
Yeah that's our bad- we need to make it clear that the descriptions are coming from users of the products, not the companies.
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Re:Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools? by OJFord on Sunday July 24, 2016 @04:37AM (#12152731)
Oh okay - I cynically assumed that these were keywords/phrases pulled off landing pages.
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Re:Show HN: Tool Time - how well do you know your dev tools? by mod on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:18PM (#12147176)
There's also a lot of times where the keywords are like this:

"Free plan, nice ui, easy to use"

And there's 4 SaaS apps that I've never heard of--not that I could distinguish if I had heard of them.

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