Re:Ask HN: I want to create IMDB for Open source projects
by nine_k on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:15PM
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To counter your points (all valid):
- I did discover interesting movies on IMDB. It was more by chance though, while looking up info on known movies.
- Popularity of a piece of OSS may be important when choosing to use it for an org. Something alive and widely used has better chances of survival in the future, and/or speed of reaction to security incidents.
That said, I agree that IMDB is not what I'd like the directory of OSS to resemble. I'd rather go after imitating tvtropes.
- I did discover interesting movies on IMDB. It was more by chance though, while looking up info on known movies.
- Popularity of a piece of OSS may be important when choosing to use it for an org. Something alive and widely used has better chances of survival in the future, and/or speed of reaction to security incidents.
That said, I agree that IMDB is not what I'd like the directory of OSS to resemble. I'd rather go after imitating tvtropes.