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Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by v4n4d1s on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:59AM (#13550909)
The folks over at /r/selfhosted made a similar list of (mostly) web applications you can selhost: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by bharani_m on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:25AM (#13550028)
Great site and nicely curated list. But I think there is a problem with redirecting www to non-www.

I submitted an app [1] using the the Google forms that you have, after submission it takes me to www.webapphunt.co and Heroku says that no such app exists.

You might want to check your DNS records.

[1] https://www.emailthis.me

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by vasanthv on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:52AM (#13550874)
Thank you for reporting. Fixed it.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by meagher on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:14AM (#13550258)
Very nice!

Personally, I dislike the phrase hand-curated.

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by tarcyanm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:21AM (#13551081)
I am as tired of hearing "curated" as I am of "artisanal".

Both are effectively becoming meaningless and set my pretentiousness detector on high alert.

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by jerrycruncher on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:34AM (#13551176)
Agreed. 'Curated' is currently being over-used to the point of parody. Any list of things made by a person is a curation.

One could easily describe a grocery list as a 'a thoughtfully curated selection of produce and pantry goods.'

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by garysieling on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:48AM (#13550831)
Can you elaborate? I've been describing https://www.findlectures.com similarly to people, and I've had a lot of positive feedback. There is some frustration from the impersonality of the poorer implemented AI recommenders.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by IceyEC on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:11AM (#13550998)
what's added by describing it as hand-curated over curated?
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by Nadya on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:14AM (#13551023)
Algorithms can "curate" things nowadays, but often do so poorly. "Hand" implies a person is doing the curation and not an algorithm. I could see people preferring a person over an algorithm.

A "curated feed" doesn't imply a human is curating the feed anymore.

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by intrasight on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:02AM (#13550934)
Agreed. Curation is done with the mind not the hand. And since there's no other way to do it, you can drop the mind and just say curated.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by vasanthv on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:55AM (#13634632)
Moving the list to twitter to cut down costs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634626

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by averageweather on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:49AM (#13551965)
Nice. I think my http://www.averageweather.io web app fits in well here, but I guess I will wait and see if it gets approved. Quick and to the point, useful web apps.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by ihattendorf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:50PM (#13553901)
Looks nice, but I'm getting a 500 response.

http://www.averageweather.io/averages/Aracaju%20-%20State%20...

Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by averageweather on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:24PM (#13556847)
Ugh. Handled. Thanks
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by jim_d on Sunday February 05, 2017 @12:23PM (#13573345)
This is a great list, thanks for putting this together. As a small feature request it would be great if I could see more of the apps at once, I think infinite scroll or just more apps per page would be nice.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by adambedford on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:15PM (#13561865)
Nice! I submitted my app, JobTrack (https://jobtrack.io). Let's see if it gets approved to be listed!
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by vgb2k11 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:29AM (#13551139)
The most useful app on this hand-curated list has got to be "how many people in space right now". I mean, who knew it would be 6 ! /s /thread.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by joekrill on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:51AM (#13550445)
This looks cool, thanks. Also want to thank you for not opening your links in an external window! I'm really getting sick of that trend.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by tdk on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:45AM (#13549584)
Cool, but most users won't know what CSS3 or hybrid applications are. Maybe just put "should work with all modern browsers".
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by fiatjaf on Thursday February 02, 2017 @06:45AM (#13549824)
I thought I wouldn't like it, but the selection of web apps is very interesting.
Re:Web App Hunt – A hand-curated list of useful web apps by mxuribe on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:05AM (#13550523)
I like this; very nice.