Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for software dev-related topics

Re:Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for softwar... by dewey on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:21PM (#38002251)

Have you thought about classifying HN posts and then displaying them in some alternative frontend for your use case? Then you don't have the cold-start problem and can benefit from the discussions already happening here. Could even be a browser extension.

Seems a lot more realistic than trying to create a niche community out of an existing niche community.

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Re:Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for softwar... by hubraumhugo on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:56PM (#38002768)

I've built exactly this: a personalized HN newsletter that delivers summarized and categorized content. Check it out: https://kadoa.com/hacksnack

Planning to do a Show HN soon :)

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Re:Show HN: FollowDev, HH-like forum exclusively for softwar... by TotoHorner on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:32PM (#38003284)

Yeah, there's a couple email newsletters that do this.

- TLDR (https://tldr.tech/) <- it's mostly tech-related news. Has like 1 million+ subscribers

- Quastor (https://www.quastor.org/) <- sends summaries of the engineering blog posts that hit the top of HN (full disclosure - I've been writing this newsletter for several years now)

- Pointer.io (https://www.pointer.io/) <- summarizes the engineering leadership content that rises to the top of HN

etc.

I believe someone also developed a chrome extension for HN that would let you filter out the non-engineering related content but can't remember the name right now.

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