Re:Show HN: Learnawesome.org – Open-source learning map for ...
by mathnmusic on Sunday July 12, 2020 @11:23PM
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Edit/Delete rights are given when user's profile score reaches a certain threshold.
Spam will have to be contained. One approach is to show users only those items which have been recommended by users they follow.
Building this as a CMS/CRM is a very interesting idea.
(UI-wise it is not bad in general except when you want to select the topic it shows up a dropdown list of 2000 things. Also having fake comments auto-generated makes me feel like this is not a finished product but a POC.)
And not sure how but I ran into Error 500 quite a few times.
Overall I think the idea is great conceptually but as a product it is trying to do too many things at once. If OP intends to scale it up I think it would be nice to focus on fullfiling a particular niche first. Or in Paul Buchheit's words: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy i.e. at least from a product standpoint. Of course as a hobby project I think this is still pretty cool!
Haven't read the source so can't comment too much on the arch and code. I think it has the potential to be further developed into a very powerful CMS for domain-specific knowledge management, or a CRM, etc. B2C-wise as a content-discovery plaftorm I don't see how this is going to work, except becoming a haven for ads which is probably the last thing OP wants. Suppose it does become a social network as OP has intended, when it grows to a certain scale it will run into the same content moderation problem as hn, etc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23806426). On the other hand B2B-wise it may be able to become ramen profitable.
p.s. to OP: can you delete the duplicated entry for me? Thanks. Due to the crashes and the name not showing up properly I submitted my app https://archy.sh/ with mutiple entries.